The Jonster wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 10:59 pm
Saving money is always a good thing! Now if only I was actually good at this.
I'm not really that good at it. Well it depends, sometimes I can be if I just don't think about it, other times I start putting myself in the mood to buy certain things. Usually that's not very often, but sometimes it can happen for a while until I get everything I'm looking for. Eventually there will be an OLED TV.
The Jonster wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 10:59 pm
+ Sniffles are gone!
- Coughing is still bad. Worse in m my room for some reason.
+ Was up til 4 last night but found all the PC games I had remember when I was young.
I wonder if it's very dry air? Also good that you found all the games!
+ I beat the Rayman DLC for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
- I reached the end and now I wish I didn't because it the ending was bittersweet and I just wanna cry the rest of the night...
3y means there are 3 y's. 3y + y = 4y (you are literally adding another y, now there are 4 etc.). Since it's doing 3y + y - y, it's back to 3y again (you added a "y", then took it away again), then the + 10 part is simple enough.
EdgyRabbid wrote: Tue Nov 04, 2025 6:00 pm
- In math they added LETTERS!
Algebra is NOT a negative, I love my letter in numbers very much!
+ Been playing Crosscode, and I've been enjoying it!
+ Also been playing a lot of Lethal Company solo, my current best is ~7 quotas! (even if I did save scum a fair bit)
- Eyeless dogs are assholes.
- Forest giants are even worse.
I actually liked maths in school, but unfortunately at some point in my teens I became very disinterested in school along with the anxiety factor, so I didn't really keep up anymore at that point.
I guess it's different when people are still in school, where it makes them not really enjoy those things. I used to like it though since I enjoy solving things.
I feel it's definitely an important one, even for programming you need to still know at least some level of maths. Clearly the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but also just knowing how exponents and logarithm works can go a long way, and modulo is usually very very useful in programming. Algebra not so much in this specific case, but there's a reason it exists and why its taught. I wish I paid more attention in school during my later years.
Algebra is the foundation for so many branches of science, engineering, technology and so on that I can't fathom how you could be active in any of those fields and not contend with it in some capacity. Considering the world seems to run on spreadsheets, if you don't understand the principles of representing values with letters, you're not going to get much done.
Yes, seeing it in its most basic form of just x and ys doesn't really seem to translate to much. But when you start looking at equations representing things such as motion (suvats), force (f=ma), circuits (v = ir), energy (E=mc^2). (And these are just single examples of the many many equations involved). It underpins so much.
I make no claims to being an accomplished mathematician, frankly I've only gotten worse with age to the point where I can't even do basic calculus anymore (I'd have to refresh my memory big time). But to say it serves no purpose? Well I suppose it's just magic then, eh?
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Like come on, if it wasn't for algebra, there wouldn't be electronics of any kind, no radio, no large scale infrastructure, nothing that makes modern life, well, modern. Most engineering is literally impossible without algebra.
PluMGMK wrote: Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:47 pm
Like come on, if it wasn't for algebra, there wouldn't be electronics of any kind, no radio, no large scale infrastructure, nothing that makes modern life, well, modern. Most engineering is literally impossible without algebra.
Tbh I just don’t see how I, an animator, would use it? Like genuinely, would I use it during my career?
You might not use it, but the technology for it wouldn't exist without it.
Maths and algebra is the reason your potential career can exist. How do you think a monitor or TV can display the right colours, know what lines to draw on a screen?
How does the animation software work behind the scenes to composite images, to display them in order?
The answer? Algebra and associated maths. (most likely some form of matrices but I daren't delve into the mathematics behind computer graphics as it makes my head spin on a cursory glance).
