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Indrė Lukošiūtė

60 ‘Useless Yet Interesting Calculations’ To Get Your Mind Reeling (New Posts)

Mathematics as a concept—not even a discipline, though that too—is one of those things that is both science but also magic at the same time.

Science, because, d’uh, but magic because just look at the kind of mind-boggling shenanigans you can get into by simply assuming that one divided by three is one third, and one third is 0.(3) and times 3 it’s 0.(9). Who Houdinied that extra 0.(1) away?!

But outside the wonder that this scientific “logic” provides, it’s pretty much useless. And you bet there’s a dedicated community around useless math online—well, useless, but interesting.

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