how a mathematician counts the number of cows in a field: counts the number of their legs, and divides by 4.
keywords: complication

proof of the existence of God: the fact that you might feel dizzy when looking down, but never when looking up.
keywords: theology, argumentation

Development can be scalar or vectorial. Scalar development is commonly called evolution. (The most fundamental scalar development is the progression of space-time, as described by Dewey B. Larson.) Nature created man to carry out vectorial development. (cf: “Man was created by water to carry it uphill.”) A gram of vectorial evolution is worth a kilogram of scalar evolution.
keywords: Physics, General Systems Theory, life

retweet: a weekend of prayer and fasting for the fey crowd

‘It doesn’t matter.’
1. I’m not concerned with the situation you are referring to.
2. I have taken care of the situation you are referring to.

Happiness is when your test scores are from concentrate, and your juice beverage is not.

– what USA Today (30.May.2019) says some people are saying.
Get over it already – what USA Today (30.May.2019) says other people are saying.
The world needs Esperanto – what I say.
(It seems to me that ‘dotard’ is being overloaded with the meaning of ‘idiot’. After all, just as the truly insane are not held accountable for their actions, so also a true dotard would not be.)
keywords: politics, commentary

A well-known quotient construction in the real world is the discounting of chance occurrences and coincidences.
keywords: Mathematics, thresholds

Definition 1. The 0-contrapositive of a statement of the form ‘every A is a B’ is the statement ‘the number of A’s that are not a B is 0’.
Definition 2. A torpedo is a 0-count contrapositive form of the customary statement of a theorem of the form ‘every A is a B’.
Examples:
1. The number of integers greater than 1 having no prime divisor is 0.
2. The number of triangles that can’t be inscribed in a circle is 0.
3. The number of squares having a diagonal commensurable with its side is 0.
4. The number of real numbers x for which the square of x is less than 0 is 0.
5. The number of finite division rings that are not a field is 0.
6. The number of groups that are not a permutation group is 0.
7. The number of non-constant bounded entire functions is 0.
8. The number of non-constant polynomials not having a root is 0.
9. The number of differentiable functions that are not continuous is 0.
10. The number of maps requiring more than 4 colors is 0.
11. The number of perfect point sets that are countable is 0.
12. The number of positive integers not representable as the sum of 4 squares is 0.
13. The number of proper arithmetic progressions that contain no prime is 0.
14. The number of primes having no primitive root is 0.
The value of torpedoes is that they allow the early introduction of concepts to the young, by omitting all secondary verbiage. The young can absorb these concepts on the fly in the same way that they absorb their native language. Memorizing the answer to ‘the number of maps requiring more than 4 colors’ is not much more difficult than memorizing the answer to ‘7 times 8’. This early familiarity later serves as a springboard to discussion of the topics.
keywords: Mathematics, Logic, Education

Jen la ligilo al la listo de vortoj
keywords: dictionary, dictionaries, new words