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[Anonymous No.11064173]

>When Plato busts out the math

My mind is blown

[Anonymous No.11064180]

>tfw math brainlet

[Anonymous No.11064185]

>>11064173
>>11064180
Whats so awe inspiring about this passage? pretty easy to comprehend

[Anonymous No.11064194]

Rep. 8.546bc is the true test

This dark passage contains Plato's "key to breeding success"

[Anonymous No.11064373]

What the fuck is a potency
Do pigs have four foot dicks

[Anonymous No.11064389]

>The king is 729 times more happy than the tyrant (Plat. Rep. 9.587e)

Based

[Anonymous No.11064404]

>>11064173
>mfw math grad
>mfw no idea what this is trying to say

[Anonymous No.11064439]

>>11064404
Addendum, he's saying (\sqrt(2)^2)^2=4 in what is the most unusual way I've ever heard of.

[Anonymous No.11064481]

>>11064180
This
I barely know my multiplication tables
This summer I'm gonna try and study my ass off and get better

[Anonymous No.11065353]

>>11064173
>potency of two
=4
>or square root of two
=1.41...
the other being 16 and 2
wtf

[Anonymous No.11065379]

when people say they struggle with math I usually think they mean with calculus or complex numbers then they say its just basic algebra, like how? that should just be common sense, in school you have to learn far more complex topics, its the equivalent of saying you find reading literature hard and it turns out you can't even spell "cat"

[Anonymous No.11065424]

>>11064173
THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON
Fragment #3—Plutarch de Orac. defectu ii. 415 C:
>'A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men, but a stag's life is four times a crow's, and a raven's life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes.'

[Anonymous No.11065433]

>>11065379
>can’t spell ket
shit i’m a breinlet

[Anonymous No.11065564]

>>11064180
Calling yourself a "math brainlet" is an excuse. You're just lazy.

[Anonymous No.11065600]

>>11064173
>>11064194
>>11064389

What on earth

[Anonymous No.11065601]

>>11064173
this doesn't make sense, I can understand the math easy but a diagonal can't have a diagonal its an oxymoron, just because the diagonal of a big square is bugger than that of a small square doesn't mean anything, hes basically just saying in a long winded way of saying 4<2, what is this suppose to prove?

[Anonymous No.11065614]

>>11065424
860400?

[Anonymous No.11065616]

this doesn't make sense, I can understand the math easy but a diagonal can't have a diagonal its an oxymoron, just because the diagonal of a big square is bugger than that of a small square doesn't mean anything, hes basically just saying in a long winded way of saying 4>2, what is this suppose to prove?

[Anonymous No.11065629]

>>11065424
9720 generations? or ~243000 years?

[Anonymous No.11065640]

>>11065614
a generation of aged men = 88.518 years?

[Anonymous No.11065663]

>>11065616
>a line segment can't have a diagonal even though it is equivalent to the side of a square

[Anonymous No.11065697]

>>11065663
whatever, what is this suppose to show? that 4>2?

[Anonymous No.11065721]

>>11064389
fucking kek

[Anonymous No.11065772]

>tfw no need to know calculus ever
>tfw still feel a shame for being """intellectual""" but not knowing calculus
>tfw 27 is probably too late to teach yourself calculus for no reason

[Anonymous No.11065804]

>tfw will never live in a city of 5040 houses

[Anonymous No.11065962]

>>11065697

No

https://books.google.com.br/books?id=ZpebdyY3A3gC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=socrate+pig+potency&source=bl&ots=HNABi98BO-&sig=v7fgY3NhXYbkmj2v9a_bY1zaXZo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjz0a3S1dvaAhVJW5AKHfNmAKIQ6AEIcDAG#v=onepage&q=socrate%20pig%20potency&f=false

"The Stranger here appeals to a specialty of Theodorus and his pupils: the use of diagonals to identify and commensurate incommensurables suchs as the square root of two. This obscure mathematical joke reveals that, like his mathematician friends, the Stranger through his method of division commensurates things are in fact incommensurable: humans and pigs."

Before that, the Stranger was criticizing Socrates for separating humans and beasts, saying Socrates was lumping all beasts together like Greeks called all unrelated non-Greeks "Barbarians". However he missed Socrates point of distinction between Rational and Non-rational. So he moved on to create a common measurement for humans and pigs.

[Anonymous No.11065972]

I'm pretty sure Plato didn't operate in brainlet units like "feet"

[Anonymous No.11066007]

>>11065804

[Anonymous No.11066068]

>>11065600
>What on earth
It sounds like the old lady is getting knocked up.