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@RetroMath

Amateur math historian. (He/Him) I tweet mostly about math and math-adjacent fields and their history.

Joined October 2017
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The Museum of Curiosities@CuriosMuseum21 Sep 2023
New tempting ways to serve bananas.
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Howie Hua (@howie_hua) profile picture
Howie Hua@howie_hua3 Sep 2023
What's a fraction between 3/4 and 4/5? What was your strategy?
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ALT Two cats labeled 3/4 and 4/5 hugging another cat in between them. Cat in the middle, labeled "?", looks like they do not want to be there.

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Jay Cummings
@LongFormMath1 Aug 2023
Are you a mathematician who's having a baby? Here are some nice mathematical names for your child: Epsilon Abscissa Pollygon Quintic Abacus Lemma Vector Max Eureka Tessellate Jacobian Eigen Seven 🧮
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Cliff Pickover
@pickover9 Jul 2023
Mathematics, geometry. Retweet if you can find a perfect Five-Pointed Star in this pattern. [From Sam Loyd (1841–1911)] Before you show the answer, why not first share this with friends who might want to see the puzzle, before seeing the answer?
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Looking for an artist to do art for a 12 page TTRPG. Chunky industrial cassette futurism set in the tech level of the 70s and 80s. Cyber, AND punk, heavy on the punk. images below are kind of what we're after. contact the editor @fhartelius for details and to send portfolio.
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Merrick 🦂 (@punishedmother) profile picture
Merrick 🦂@punishedmother8 Jul 2023
We learned that a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn’t a square in elementary school
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The Museum of Curiosities@CuriosMuseum5 Jul 2023
1938 Cost of Living.
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Massimo
@Rainmaker19732 Jul 2023
From a 1979 IBM presentation
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#CisIsNotASlur #Cis #Cisgender
Simpsons Bus Driver Meme, Reads "Don't make me tap the sign", Sign: "Nobody Thinks Cis is a Slur, they just say it is to try and invalidate discussions of Gender that support Trans People"

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Jessamyn Dukes@rhymeswspecimen25 Mar 2023
honey, the biblically correct octonions have escaped the lab again
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@0xnullcline25 Mar 2023
someone needs to check on the condensed matter physicists they are cooking up something satanic
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Colm Mulcahy@CardColm14 Mar 2023
Unpopular opinion: Memorising lots of digits of pi is a total waste of time! It has NOTHING to do with mathematics.
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Jay Cummings
@LongFormMath24 Feb 2023
No comments.
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JF Ptak 🏳️‍🌈 (@ptak) profile picture
JF Ptak 🏳️‍🌈@ptak19 Feb 2023
Delightful and useful electrical display instrument to follow baseball games in real time, from "Scientific American", 1891 ("Electric Baseball").
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Segar Rogers (@SegarRogers) profile picture
Segar Rogers@SegarRogers19 Feb 2023
Exact trig values from 1833 ... gulp! ... but they do beg the question, why do we continue to teach those for 30°, 45° & 60°? ... they're used exclusively for contrived exam questions ... to what end?
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SKG@sonukg4india28 Jan 2023
#math meme
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Kareem Carr, Ph.D.
@kareem_carr27 Jan 2023
chapgpt is such a wuss lol
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alc0@alc0fribas28 Dec 2022
a theory of proportions
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Tim Brzezinski@TimBrzezinski24 Dec 2022
#mathmeme
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Gatorade Should Be Thicker. (@WinslowDumaine) profile picture
Gatorade Should Be Thicker.@WinslowDumaine27 Nov 2022
The fact that dudes go on a diet but they call it "biohacking" is so funny to me. Like if men started knitting they would call it "hyper threading" or "powertangling" or some shit
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Bill Shillito - now at 🦋@solidangles28 Nov 2022
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Pythagorean Theorem is NOT "a² + b² = c²."
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