I always wonder if every Estates and Trusts class has one session where some students angrily claim that it is simply not possible to sum two fractions, or if that was unique to mine.
I am trying to imagine the candy box that two adults could possibly both look at and arrive at such wildly different estimates for.
Also, he mentions decimal points of pi (actually he said “pie”), which shouldn’t come up at all when you’re talking about a “box”???
Then he redid it and he got 232. Because he used a tape measure to measure circumference
My man....if you think measuring and math is so important, have the self-respect to own a cheap pair of calipers. Maybe even know the formula to learn volume from diameter, i dunno
Sometimes I look at my $120k engineering degree and wonder how that makes sense when I mostly do high school level math in my job. Then I look at what happens when people like this do math. GED to learn your times tables, college degree to look at the box and go "that can't be right..."
On a more serious note I think good engineering classes instill humility (unfortunately all the brain-melted engineers online have shown this can only go so far), and that most "I am very smart" moments come down to failures of ego
The funniest thing about this being presented as a teachable moment is someday his kids’ takeaway, if anything, will be like “damn is my dad dumb as hell”
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did he estimate the size of the nerd in angstroms?
Also, he mentions decimal points of pi (actually he said “pie”), which shouldn’t come up at all when you’re talking about a “box”???
My man....if you think measuring and math is so important, have the self-respect to own a cheap pair of calipers. Maybe even know the formula to learn volume from diameter, i dunno
PS box of nerds: around 500
What a hack
One big nerd
My current theory is that Trump being president broke his brain