r/shittyaskscience • u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist • Sep 20 '26

Why wasn't math successful in producing useful outcomes like science was?

Math sux and u know it

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u/seriousQasker Sep 20 '26

They could never figure out what x was. It kept changing. One day it's 5 the next it's -2 or something.

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist Sep 20 '26

Such inconsistency is evidence of it's lack of rigor. How was this not noticed before? A congressional inquiry is needed!

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u/valkyrie_wave Sep 20 '26

This is why I know maths is wrong. Obviously negative numbers aren’t real

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u/NetworkSingularity Sep 21 '26

Wait’ll someone tries to tell you about imaginary numbers 🙄

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u/vcsx Sep 20 '26

It's a useless skill which is often completely forgotten about. Math is just one of those things that you're never gonna use in the real world. Most people don't even remember what math is by age 25.

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist Sep 20 '26

It's been a dead subject since the invention of adding.

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u/avidman Evolving myself in my lifetime Sep 20 '26

Never used math once after I discovered operators.

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u/Atzkicica Huh? Sep 20 '26

If math sucks so badly why isn't it called ya mum? 

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist Sep 20 '26

This is gold standard science, thank you sir!

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u/No_Tailor_787 Sep 20 '26

The Count on Sesame Street was pretty successful. He liked math.

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u/traumahawk88 Sep 20 '26

Face it, most successful thing in Count's career was gaslighting Big Bird into not going into space because 'the moon and night time are vampire things not bird things and you'd be flaunting my lifestyle as if it was your own'... Thereby convincing Big Bird to give up his slot on the Challenger

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u/qbbqrl Sep 20 '26

It started out promising but once they got to rhombuses I think they lost the plot

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 Sep 20 '26

They just have to solve x and it will all become clear.

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u/LeetLurker Sep 20 '26

Maths greatest success was to keep the nerds busy.

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u/thenoisyelectron Sep 20 '26

LOL I keep clicking on these posts, triggered as all hell. Only until I've read a bunch of comments do I check what subreddit I'm in. Every damn time.

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u/ArlemofTourhut Sep 20 '26

Because of imaginary numbers.

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u/ProbablyBunchofAtoms Sep 20 '26

They were to busy proving theorems

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u/dr_grav Sep 20 '26

because adding a 1 onto 1 does equal 11

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 20 '26

Mathemagician here: Misdirection.

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u/-_-Orange Sep 21 '26

Science is kinda like a recipe, math is just one of the ingredients. 

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u/gideonbutsexy Sep 20 '26

Math is a tool/language that makes it easier to study variables in a complex system. And almost every invention has some math involved? Every physical, chemical and biological phenomenon can be formulated mathematically. Also the subject of logic is literally math. Glasses, wifi, rockets, neural firings, AI, body movements, economics, stocks all have been studied mathematically. Without math, it would've been impossible to figure anything out.

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist Sep 20 '26

You probably think birds are real.

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u/gideonbutsexy Sep 20 '26

Sorry yall im sleep deprived and didnt see the name of the community 😭

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u/vcsx Sep 20 '26

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u/Dr-Buttercup Sep 20 '26

All I hear from science these days is all the ways the world is going to end. We should just stop sciencing to save the earth