Stop the plane! Calculus is threating.
When math becomes something to raise a terrorist alert over the end times must be near.
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I was gonna try to say something about some people being intimidated by math… I think I’ll just start drinking instead as it will more pleasant than thinking about this absurd situation.
Hey, the symbols for “summation” and “function” are pretty scary. Derivatives are horrifying… LOL “Limits”? There are no limits… Calculus literally changed the way I look at the world.
I’ve received comments to that effect from people (in another life, only a few years ago) but no one ever called it in. They might ask what it was, I would tell them, and then they would get bored and try to say something witty.