oh holy of hole-y number lines
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rootedinsong I discovered the steaming morass that is people who don't get that mathematics has been fairly well worked-out over the last, say, three millenia, and who are re-drowning Hippasus.
basically, imagine: trolling in 2009 over a point of mathematics settled (albeit violently) in the 5th century BC.
[ETA: actually, it's not even an argument about the irrationals -- it's a troll over whether repeating decimals are "really" the same thing as a fraction. and it's 2006, not 2009. but still.]
[ETA again: the debate rages on in Wikipedia's talk page on this subject!]
rootedinsong I discovered the steaming morass that is people who don't get that mathematics has been fairly well worked-out over the last, say, three millenia, and who are re-drowning Hippasus.basically, imagine: trolling in 2009 over a point of mathematics settled (albeit violently) in the 5th century BC.
[ETA: actually, it's not even an argument about the irrationals -- it's a troll over whether repeating decimals are "really" the same thing as a fraction. and it's 2006, not 2009. but still.]
[ETA again: the debate rages on in Wikipedia's talk page on this subject!]
