657
Hungry 9 (lemmy.likes.cat)
submitted 3 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago

Calculus is generally pretty easy to do mental arithmetic on, especially when talking about real-world situations, like estimating the acceleration of a car or something. Those could have multiple answers, but one won't apply (i.e. cars are assumed to be going forward, so negative speed/acceleration doesn't make much sense, unless braking).

Math w/ quantum states is a bit less applicable, but doing some statics in your head for determining how many samples you need for a given confidence in a quantum calculation (essentially just some stats and an integral) could fit as mental math if it's your job to estimate costs. Quantum capacity is expensive, after all...

this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
657 points (95.3% liked)

Curated Tumblr

4104 readers
4 users here now

For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

The best transcribed post each week will be pinned and receive a random bitmap of a trophy superimposed with the author's username and a personalized message. Here are some OCR tools to assist you in your endeavors.

-web

-iOS

-android

Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS