#warning: math

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

What's the most passionate opinion you have about a nonsense topic? (Eg those people who REALLY care about the correct way to make a cup of tea)

“it makes sense when a super genius or robot character can predict the chances of something to a really specific percentage bc they’re good at math” that’s!!! not!!! how!!! probability works!!!!! it makes sense if they’re just crunching numbers but if the joke is “out of 6,420,350,304 possible outcomes, there is one in which we succeed” hell no!!! Real world!!! Probabilities!!! Come! With! ERROR BARS! They CANNOT BE REALISTICALLY CALCULATED TO THAT NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT DIGITS!!! There are too many UNQUANTIFIABLES requiring RANGES and ESTIMATES. yes haha the robo genius can divide for an irrational number in their head so can my dollar store calculator but that’s NOT! HOW! bASIC STATISTICS! wORKS!!!!!!! out of millions of possible realities, what’s the probability you’ve ever had one (1) conversation with a stats professor? zero!!! or you’d have heard of the basic principle of VARIANCE!! that is LAZY writing, that is SIMPLISTIC and INSIPID character building, stop!!!! doing that!!!!!!!!! either use STANDARD DEVIATION like someone who passed PRE-CALCULUS or leave!!! 

[wellokaythentryme]

this is about investments and savings accounts with warlocks and will probably be boring but just hear me out...

So TODAY I was learning about investments and like savings accounts... and it got me thinking: this must be how most old warlocks are super rich. (Malcom and Tessa and ragnor and Magnus at least.) Like obviously they all have jobs but I was thinking if a warlock opened a savings account and put like idk 1000 dollars in it in like 1960 and didn’t touch it until like 2000... THEY PROBABLY MADE A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY... so maybe this can explain why magnus seems to just be like That Bitch along with being expensive to hire, he also owns property (Paris apartment, French safehouse, Brooklyn apartment, who knows where else) and likely has long-term investments that pay out every so often and all he has to do is wait 40ish years

[internutter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

There’s nothing like new math to make old mathematicians angry.

[randomthrowawayac]

Oh my fucking god

9 x 11 is 1 less than 10 x 10

And that shit applies for everything else.

Like 2 x 4 is 1 less than 3 x 3

And 6 x 8 is 1 less than 7 x 7

Why did nobody tell me

[pixieflix]

tHIS REMINDS ME OF jADE ON TOO MANY LEVELS TO BE OKAY,