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    Grin Women were the first mathematicians

    Here's a fun experiment you can do with your body without the need for any numbers!

    On the first day of your next period start drawing notches on some object, say like a saber tooth tiger bone. Every day after that (every time you see the sun), you make a new notch. When you get your next period, you stop drawing notches on the bone and start a new bone.

    You'll know when you will have to menstruate when the amount of notches on one bone matches the notches on the other! Yay ^_^

    (ps if you haven't figured it out this was how women figured out their menstrual cycles before the invention of numbers)

    What else did you learn today?

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    Great, so women can count.

    Too bad they still have problems with 3D spaces, Laplace transforms, and calculating dickstrokes per second eigenvalues/vectors. And MATLAB. But everyone has problems with MATLAB.

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    What Christmas said.

    This thread is offensive to me. >:O

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    I can't wait for the sexism to rooooooooooooooooooll!


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    Grin

    asl op?

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    Today I learned that <s>women on EoFF take themselves seriously</s> the chicken pox vaccine can cause kids to become autistic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tavrobel View Post
    Great, so women can count.

    Too bad they still have problems with 3D spaces, Laplace transforms, and calculating dickstrokes per second eigenvalues/vectors. And MATLAB. But everyone has problems with MATLAB.
    let me tell you a few things about Simulink, son.

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    Today I learned that the chicken pox vaccine can cause kids to become autistic.
    Dumbtarded conspiracy theories. What you learned is that some people believe that fluff.

    I'm trying to decide if these women (he has links! :O) would be trying to be prepared to bleed onto the ground or to maximize childbirthing

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    Men would've had to scratch marks on the wall to tell when their womenfolk were going to become she-bitches.

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    this reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend about whether imaginary numbers have real-world applications. I said they did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Hambone
    Today I learned that the chicken pox vaccine can cause kids to become autistic.
    Dumbtarded conspiracy theories. What you learned is that some people believe that fluff.
    Yeah, I thought so. I did a double-take when my sister told me. I didn't think it was something you could catch like homosexuality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bunny View Post
    Men would've had to scratch marks on the wall to tell when their womenfolk were going to become she-bitches.
    Or how many times they had to do some self-performing because they had no she-bitches to do it for them.

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    When the river runs red, take the dirt road instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eestlinc View Post
    this reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend about whether imaginary numbers have real-world applications. I said they did.
    Electric power transmission. Imaginary numbers are used to gauge the efficiency of appliances used at the receiving end of the power grid. You draw a little right triangle with one axis being imaginary, and the perpendicular axis being real. The real axis is what is required at the receiver's end, and the hypotenuse is the actual amount the powerco has to generate. The imaginary portion gets emitted as waste or something. LOL CIRCUITS

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    Today I learned that:

    -Chocolate is actually a major source of copper and magnesium.

    -One ounce of chocolate contains the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaff coffee (6mg). Brewed coffee has 100 mg of caffeine per cup.

    -The company that I work for is actually still very much family owned. Way awesome

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