So you all laugh. But at the right level of math these are very important concepts in engineering.
2.49 + 2.49 does equal 5. That is why we spend the entire first-year of engineering to study significant digits. We would round to the accuracy of the measurement device and probably express the solution as 5.0 so others know the result was rounded. So 2+2 might equal 5, which is why it is so important not to round your work early and to keep track of units and not take numbers out of black-box models without understanding their origin.
There are similar concepts in high-level statistics.
This type of thing is what every journalist and keyboard warrior and even doctor is doing right now with the COVID data. Which why all the data and models are fucked.
The problem is this social justice faggot has probably never taken any math, took his examples out of some SJW textbook and is using it to teach racism to 10-year-olds.
Deeper into the thread, he uses a Wendy's 2 for $5 burger deal as an example of when 2+2=5.
https://twitter.com/PoorWanderer1/status/1343946270306549761
So you all laugh. But at the right level of math these are very important concepts in engineering.
2.49 + 2.49 does equal 5. That is why we spend the entire first-year of engineering to study significant digits. We would round to the accuracy of the measurement device and probably express the solution as 5.0 so others know the result was rounded. So 2+2 might equal 5, which is why it is so important not to round your work early and to keep track of units and not take numbers out of black-box models without understanding their origin.
There are similar concepts in high-level statistics.
This type of thing is what every journalist and keyboard warrior and even doctor is doing right now with the COVID data. Which why all the data and models are fucked.
The problem is this social justice faggot has probably never taken any math, took his examples out of some SJW textbook and is using it to teach racism to 10-year-olds.
Making rounding errors and errors with significant digits does not make 2+2 equal 5, it makes you shit at math.