Just askin'... Oh, me? Well I am still (kind of) able to do calculus and trigonometry... Thanks Kumon, I still remember and still fucking hate you.

I sometimes consume math content on YouTube, but in reality, I've probably forgotten almost all of calculus and only have a surface-level understanding of what lies beyond calculus. Shout out to Zundamon's Theorem, a Youtube channel featuring two anime girls who solve math problems to explore rather esoteric math concepts in intuitive ways. There's actual 2 channels: one in English and one in Japanese. Though, it seems the creator has been sticking purely to their English channel recently. What Does a 1.585-Dimensional Shape Look Like? (English)

Not at all. Standard algebra I'm good with but anything calculus related forget about it. Literally, I've never used that info and forgot almost immediately after finishing a final.

Worst part now is trying to fake how important it is to my son so he'll study.

I dropped out junior year and it was not because I was too good at the maths

I can do every math becuase I am in colledge...
...can't spell though

I like my math. I'm in university, and I take all the interesting elective math courses I can—last one was an intro to game theory.

im dumb :3 /j

I can do some stuff but trigonometry or calculus... well... uh... not much

I got 5 on it

refresh said:
Just askin'... Oh, me? Well I am still (kind of) able to do calculus and trigonometry... Thanks Kumon, I still remember and still fucking hate you.

Good? Don't see why furries are treated as a entirely different species (pun not intended) from humans. I mean I can bet some nobel prize winner might have been on a furry phase / is a furry

thehuskyk9 said:
I got 5 on it

Grab your '40, let's get keyeeeed

I'd say about average. Got equal grade of C in high school. Geometry got me good

My math knowledge is all over the place.

• I failed Algebra 2 twice, but only because of polynomials specifically. Both times.
• I've dabbled into more advanced topics such as set theory on my own. I'm not an expert, but I know enough to have very little respect for ReigarW and their countless imitators.
• I'm utterly clueless about trigonometry and calculus. Kinda would've had to pass Algebra 2 to learn those.

I do want to learn further, but... I can't help but feel like that ship's kinda sailed.

Just to help balance this out, I'm quite good at math, at least compared to what most people here have said. I know calculus up through multivariable, decent understanding of linear algebra, and I know how to solve basic differential equations.

What’s a math?

riverobot said:
I can do every math becuase I am in colledge...
...can't spell though

I had the opposite problem. It took me four tries (I think) to get through Calculus 101.

Furthest I got was Algebra 2 in high school. When we were allowed to use graphing calculators

lonewolf36 said:
Furthest I got was Algebra 2 in high school. When we were allowed to use graphing calculators

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Above average...

Very bad at math, okay-ish at using it.

Although something that has always bothered me is that people don't understand that context matters in probability.

An example is that any pattern with multiple elements is rare when you calculate the probability of the pattern, but since the combination of elements to form a pattern from is so massive (billions of combinations), most patterns are pseudo-rare. It's about finding those patterns that the human brain likes, such as 10 of the same in a row. Same probability, but it's something we actually look for, thereby making its rarity meaningful.

On the same topic, if you repeat a 1/1,000 chance for 10,000 tries, hitting the chance somewhere in those tries is no longer "lucky", so if you want the true probability that something that just happened, you need to account for the amount you have rolled the probability. The amount of times people completely ignore this when giving answers to posts is crazy to me. I'll get mass downvoted for pointing out the fact that attemps in probability is a factor.

We're probably average, but may be more nerdy? Something like that.

cadynn said:
Although something that has always bothered me is that people don't understand that context matters in probability.

Probability is just a bunch of paradoxes that hurt my brain. I don't get it. I think it hurts everyone's brains though.

People will argue to death over variants of the Monty Hall problem. I've seen two YouTube Shorts talk about this variant: You need to cut the red, yellow, or blue wire on a time bomb. One wire defuses, the other two make it go boom! You're about to cut the red wire, when the bomb manufacturer calls you and tells you the blue wire will cause it to explode. Should you switch to the yellow wire? Both the Shorts and many of the commenters were strongly defending that you should switch. They're absolutely wrong though; switching does nothing to affect the probability. For the famous Monty Hall problem, despite seemingly being the same problem, switching DOES affect the probability, provided certain hidden assumptions are being made (which I don't think are reasonable assumptions for the bomb scenario). An explanation is left as an exercise for the reader (I'm too lazy to explain). Anyways, context MATTERS in probability, and that makes everything super ultra confusing.

cadynn said:
We're probably average, but may be more nerdy? Something like that.

Maybe. Though, given how some people like to argue about order of operations when a "÷" symbol is used in an ambiguous way and how many people get their mind completely blown by "X% of Y = Y% of X", maybe we're far above average based on the responses in this thread.

Even though I'm an accountant, contrary to popular belief we don't use that much math. As long as we can do algebra, we're all set.

I've never taken calc, and I quite frankly fear the mere subject.

cadynn said:
Very bad at math, okay-ish at using it.

Although something that has always bothered me is that people don't understand that context matters in probability.

An example is that any pattern with multiple elements is rare when you calculate the probability of the pattern, but since the combination of elements to form a pattern from is so massive (billions of combinations), most patterns are pseudo-rare. It's about finding those patterns that the human brain likes, such as 10 of the same in a row. Same probability, but it's something we actually look for, thereby making its rarity meaningful.

On the same topic, if you repeat a 1/1,000 chance for 10,000 tries, hitting the chance somewhere in those tries is no longer "lucky", so if you want the true probability that something that just happened, you need to account for the amount you have rolled the probability. The amount of times people completely ignore this when giving answers to posts is crazy to me. I'll get mass downvoted for pointing out the fact that attemps in probability is a factor.

We're probably average, but may be more nerdy? Something like that.

Ahh yes, the ever-so-tricky distinction between the Law of Truly Large Numbers versus the Gambler's Fallacy.

The former says "Given enough attempts in equal conditions, the probability of a rare outcome occurring at least once approaches certainty."
The latter says "An individual attempt is more likely to produce a rare outcome if it hasn't happened in a while—it's got to happen sooner or later."

They do sound like they say similar things, with the latter being widely recognized as a fallacy, so people assume the former must be, too, but there IS a difference.
The Law of Truly Large Numbers is talking about the whole set. The order of outcomes and the result of any individual outcome doesn't matter—only the number of attempts in total.
The Gambler's Fallacy focuses on each individual attempt; where the fallacy comes in is that it assumes any attempt affects future ones.

Law of Truly Large Numbers: "If you roll a die 100 times, you're probably going to get at least one six."
Gambler's Fallacy: "A six hasn't happened for last 100 rolls. The next one has to be a six."

I’m a trade worker
Imperial measurements so feet and inches
Lots of fractions and some basic trig

f(x)=hell :3

I have some issue with sleeping so I couldn't get through Calc A/B even though I really tried. Kept passing out momentarily and forgetting the whole class. Haven't had a use for most of it since, but I try to keep in practice.

I made the mistake of thinking "when am I going to need this?" in middle school and didn't pay attention in class. Absolutely crippled my ability to do any math above basic arithmetic... Fast foward to college and calc absolutely destroys me and my gpa. Graduated by the skin of my teeth. While I may not use college level math in my every day life, I sure wish I was better at algebra and trig.

On second thought with my previous comment, I think my math skills are fading. I use my phone's calculator for simple stuff lol

Maybe I should redo my algebra skills (and my physics). It's getting a bit rusty.

alexyorim said:
Maybe I should redo my algebra skills (and my physics). It's getting a bit rusty.

I can't remember a time where I needed to use algebra outside of high school lol