What's the point in maths?


It's probably the second most important subject at school other than English. It's pretty much needed everywhere. This forum wouldn't exist without it I can tell you that.

Even more important than English which is just the most widely spoken language in the world but you could still get by if you were just fluent in German, Spanish or Chinese.

Maths is the universal language of science, technology engineering and medicine. When we eventually meet aliens the languages will be totally different but maths will be the same.
 
Even more important than English which is just the most widely spoken language in the world but you could still get by if you were just fluent in German, Spanish or Chinese.

Maths is the universal language of science, technology engineering and medicine. When we eventually meet aliens the languages will be totally different but maths will be the same.

Aye that's true actually; not to mention we'd never meet an alien without it either.
 
I know its so you can add things up but it's not like everyone wants to be chancellor, people only need to learn percentages so when they're looking at an item which is 25% off they wouldn't need to ask what's 25% of 200 .
Love maths me
 
Wish I was class at maths. Some cracking jobs that are essentially maths like engineering.

Got a mate who’s like rain man, give him two lots of 3 digit numbers to multiply and he can give you the answer in 2 seconds.
 
Maths is the tool that allows other things to be understood.
Without maths, bridges would fall down, cars wouldn't work, and your life expectancy would be 30 years less.

On the plus side, social media wouldn't have been invented.
 
Maths is the tool that allows other things to be understood.
Without maths, bridges would fall down, cars wouldn't work, and your life expectancy would be 30 years less.

On the plus side, social media wouldn't have been invented.
This - maths is in everything. Simple maths needed to play darts or snooker all the way to imaginary numbers, quantum computing and the structure of the universe. Arab and Chinese mathematics was showing the way when we were painting ourselves blue and building Stonehenge - which needed a basic understanding of maths to do too.
 
I know its so you can add things up but it's not like everyone wants to be chancellor, people only need to learn percentages so when they're looking at an item which is 25% off they wouldn't need to ask what's 25% of 200 .
It’s arguably the way to describe the existence of life. Maths is pretty shit hot. From working out will I save more in the sale buying the latest sex toy for our lass against a different shop all the way through to seeing the Fibonacci sequence in nature. :cool:
Me and my right hand man where having discussion today on the subject of decimal points and commers in jotting down a measurement.


He writes ;56.566

I write 56,566

Who’s in the right or wrong ?him or me ?
Depends what you’re measuring, 56.566cm is very different to 56,566cm
It really isn't a load of shite is it. The entire finance industry is based on the fact that you don't understand it
Ain’t that the truth, far more to your post than you’ll get credit for
 
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It’s arguably the way to describe the existence of life. Maths is pretty shit hot. From working out will I save more in the sale buying the latest sex toy for our lass against a different shop all the way through to seeing the Fibonacci sequence in nature. :cool:

Depends what you’re measuring, 56.566cm is very different to 56,566cm

Also depends where you are as conventions on decimal and thousands separators vary by country.

In India they separate long numbers in a totally different way
 
The point? It generally signifies the whole numbers to the left and fractions thereof (expressed over 100) to the right.

Like it or not, there are a huge number of jobs (far below chancellor of anything) that require mathematics on a daily basis. Not coincidentally, many of those are paid pretty well because thick-skulled humanzees like you refuse to even make a basic effort and thus take themselves out of the applicant pool.
'Humanzees!' I'm using that one! :)
 

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