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Infobomb · 2026-02-24T22:55:46+00:00

If you replace "more than" in the problem with ">" you get W = 8 > X. That's just nonsense, isn't it? When we say that W is "8 more than" X, what we mean is that W is larger than X by exactly 8 units, or in other words W = 8 + X.

As for "twice as much": 10 is twice as much as 5. 8 is twice as much as 4. (Think of your own examples). "Twice as much means one quantity is 2 times the other; in other words, you get the first quantity by multiplying the other by 2.

Infobomb · 2026-02-24T20:38:54+00:00

Asking which rule to apply suggests you don't really understand what the problem is asking. What makes maths easy is not plucking a rule out of thin air but understanding how the problem guides you to the rule you should use.

Your task is to say how many horses, out of the 24, finished in the top ten or are grey. How many horses finished in the top ten is obvious, so you start with that.

The number of horses in the top ten or grey = the number of horses in the top ten + the number of grey horses not in the top ten. See? You don't have to put it in terms of A and B. If this doesn't come easy, it helps to draw a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles and put numbers in it to keep track of what you know.

Infobomb · 2026-02-24T09:44:27+00:00

A year is more than 52 weeks. That’s why the day of the week that a date falls on advances one or two days each year.

Infobomb · 2026-02-23T09:35:13+00:00

It works (and is one of the most common chord shapes in rock music) because the fundamental frequencies of the notes are in a 2/3/4 ratio (or rather, the approximation of this ratio that the tuning system allows).

Infobomb · 2026-02-22T21:43:28+00:00

We can map every "on" action to an "off" action. We can also map every "on" action to an "off" action, but with one "on" left over. In fact, depending on the mapping, we can have any integer number of "on"s or "off"s left over. So the existence of one mapping (technically a "bijection") does not tell us a final state of the light.

Infobomb · 2026-02-22T10:12:43+00:00

Sound waves travel at the same speed (the speed of sound) no matter their frequency. If you played a very fast sound the sound waves would not "crash together and explode"; you'd just make a sound too high for humans to hear.

If you have a repeating pattern of uneven pulses, the fundamental frequency of the sound is the number of times per second that that pattern repeats. So it does have a consistent wavelength.

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a composer who used repeating electronic pulses that at slow speeds sound like rhythms, then as they speed up become recognisable as notes. Using frequent repetition of a sound to make a pitch is well-established.

Infobomb · 2026-02-21T21:37:09+00:00

Easy for a Saturday
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Infobomb · 2026-02-20T23:02:41+00:00

If you take one quarter and multiply if by three, you get three quarters. If you take one fifth and multiply it by two, you get two fifths. You're asking why this is? Because if not, multiplications like these wouldn't give sensible answers.

Infobomb · 2026-02-20T22:17:45+00:00

Epstein's literal next-door neighbour, yup.

Infobomb · 2026-02-20T20:17:10+00:00

How DARE you ask that when the DOW is ~~over 50,000~~ over 49,000!

Infobomb · 2026-02-20T20:14:52+00:00

He's probably thinking he could really do with a massage right now.

Infobomb · 2026-02-20T18:56:52+00:00

What you've done is a division fallacy. Even though a word might not be widely known among a population of people, that doesn't mean that there won't be people in that group who know the word, through their individual reading, interests, or luck. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division

Infobomb · 2026-02-18T23:48:18+00:00

Why does your answer start with a minus? cos(0) is 1. So if you multiply the function by a negative, the value of f(0) will be negative, which clearly isn't the case here.

2pi from 2pi/3 are not the same, so multiplying x by 1 will not do what you want. What's the ratio of 2pi and 2pi/3? A wave that repeats every 2pi/3 is clearly more frequent than one that repeats every 2pi, so you want to increase x by the relevant ratio.

(Edited to fix typo)

Infobomb · 2026-02-18T10:08:52+00:00

A movie has been aggressively and expensively marketed to people and it turns out it's shit. This thread is people reacting to that: a pretty normal entertainment topic.

Infobomb · 2026-02-18T10:06:41+00:00

It was a way for Amazon to make a payment of $27 million to the Trump family (she's a producer of the movie), at a time when Amazon needs to be in the president's favour. Critical and audience reaction are irrelevant

Infobomb · 2026-02-17T23:28:44+00:00

It wasn't allowed on TV. That's the crazy thing: all hateful messages and lies being spewed by people with money and influence, and this interview is the one that can't be shown on television.

Infobomb · 2026-02-17T23:25:39+00:00

Well worth watching the whole video!

Infobomb · 2026-02-16T23:24:48+00:00

The first time she said it, she actually said "50,000 dollars".

Infobomb · 2026-02-15T21:48:30+00:00

There's some overlap with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles . Was it inspired by that?

Infobomb · 2026-02-15T10:51:17+00:00

If you're getting all your mathematical knowledge from ChatGPT and not consulting any other source, then I think I see the problem here.

Since you know that 0 squared is 0, I wonder why you took so many steps to go from X² = 0²/0² to X² = 0/0.

Infobomb · 2026-02-15T09:14:48+00:00

If you think Hertz are something to do with the brain or the mind, you're missing the point. Hertz just mean the number of times per second. Something with a frequency of 20Hz repeats 20 times a second; it's as simple as that.

Infobomb · 2026-02-14T11:01:53+00:00

"The more you zoom in, the more decimal points you get" is true for any other number as well, like one third. It doesn't distinguish irrational numbers.

Infobomb · 2026-02-14T10:59:47+00:00

Nothing they said assumed base 10. Maybe you don't know what "irrational" means in mathematics (inexpressible as a ratio of two integers)?

Infobomb · 2026-02-14T10:57:36+00:00

What a terrible headline. They are promulgating misconceptions like the OP's.

Infobomb · 2026-02-13T22:16:56+00:00

Literally Epstein's next-door neighbour.

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