I know the Indians (Hindus) have advanced match, and the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Maya, Inca, and Aztec all had relatively advanced math. However, I'm not sure anyone is willing to learn any of those languages to do advanced math.
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While societies, all societies, are racist, it's hard to make a case for math to be racist.
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Is math difficult, oh hell yea. I ran into Kirchoff's law in the 7 grade (13), a matric of parallel resistors with some resistors in series. I had no idea where to begin tackling it. A friend suggested "add the series resistors then solve for total resistance only using the parallel strings."
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Then spherical geometry....and who can forget the joys of calculus.
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Funny how none of those earlier or alternate civilizations placed a satellite in orbit, heck the Soviets beat us.
I guess I should claim racism because the Soviets beat us to orbit? Or the Germans because they invented ballistic missiles.....[oh don't get me wrong, the Nazis epitomize racism, but are their inventions?
I don't know much German but they do have a phrase something like ding in sach "Thing in it's self."
Are all the works of, is everything, created by a racists racist?]
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Look up "Equitable Math" and cringe.
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One of my wife's nieces is smart, spooky smart, she's forced to work on groups where she does 99% of the work and the loafers get equal credit, complain and she's labeled an unfair trouble maker. The school system is making a former very open and generous girl into a secretive mean spirited sociopath. Sad and frightening to watch and be helpless to do anything. The legitimate anger this kid is carrying is terrifying.
Yea I worry about a really negative outcome. Not much I can do.
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300/F=approximate wavelength in meters....so racist.
A sales tax of 5% means $.50 tax on $10.00, yea racist.
And Pi being a never ending irrational number is clearly racist.
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I don't want an DEI engineer, I want an engineer who won't design a pedway that will collapse.
At the very least I want engineers competent enough to block off traffic below a just moved bridge....
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But then I'm a 73 year old white male hillbilly so what do I know.
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