I love solving mathematical problems. They calm me and cheer me up. They are like meditation to me.
I’m missing them a lot this week. I'm currently writting a paper and is quite urgent, so I don't have time for them. It isn't that I hate writting, I actually quite enjoy it. But it's been a terrible week and I miss my maths.
being a woman isn’t about the body you were born with or your feelings or your brain it’s about being haunted by this quote from margaret atwood for your entire life
fuck the zodiac tell me which sin rules your personality
zoned out
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This is a video of an Oksapmin woman demonstrating the Oksapmin base-27 counting system. The Oksapmin people of New Guinea use body part counting as a base for their numeral system (which may sound wild and exotic, but is really just a more detailed version of what we do, most anthropologists think base-10 number systems come from humans’ having 10 fingers) starting with the thumb, going up the arm and head to the nose (the 14th number) and going down the other side of the body to the pinky finger of the other hand (the 27th number). It does not matter which side you start counting on, so counting from right-to-left or left-to-right makes no difference.
And if that’s not the coolest thing you’ve ever heard, I don’t know what to tell ya
Orbital path of asteroid near miss in 2002. Yah, that’s how close we came to nuclear winter and possible total destruction.
Small and angry.PhD student. Mathematics. Slow person. Side blog, follow with @talrg.
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