(My God, was the last time really in 2000? Seven frakking years?)

Clearly, you need to come visit. Now.

mac lost his first tooth. loves baseball. is being spoiled.

Aw. Cute!

Clearly, you need to come visit. Now.

Hell yes. I want to make trouble.

You don't make trouble in North Beach. It just sort falls into your lap, drunk and full of goodness.

conservapedia.com

Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian "C.E." instead of "A.D.", which Conservapedia uses. Christianity receives no credit for the great advances and discoveries it inspired, such as those of the Renaissance.

Oh, the science blogs are having fun with this one. The Good Math/Bad Math blog has a bunch of links to other blogs that point out the suckiness of Conservapedia, but GM/BM does go into some of the bad math: [link]

... The conservapedia can't even write a consistent definition of elementary proof. It's not too surprising - when you read their stuff on math, you get the definite idea that they really don't have a clue of what the heck they're talking about. Just take another look at their definition of "elementary proof", where they're trying to disparage the poor square root of -1.

As I've said before, i is not imaginary. It's an important number, and it does exist in mathematics - as I've explained in the linked post, there are a lot of very important and very real phenomena that we experience in the real world that mathematically require i to be described.

The "uniqueness" of i is also not an assumption. It's required by the fact that the complex numbers are a field. To create the two-dimensional complex number space - the one that we know describes real-world phenomena - we require a unique i - otherwise, we don't get that plane.

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But Conservapedia just blindly rejects things that they don't like, regardless of whether they're important, real, or useful.

The conservapedia babble about "i" is just babble. It's pretty clear that they're yet another gaggle of bozos who are upset about the idea that math is more than the simple arithmetic they learned in elementary school, and want to find some way of throwing out everything that makes them uncomfortable.

Sorry guys. Math is more than you think it is. And nobody cares whether you like that fact.

Hell yes. I want to make trouble.

You don't make trouble in North Beach. It just sort falls into your lap, drunk and full of goodness.

Well, it's more like it wanders by and looks at you saucily, and you know you'd be a fool not to get up and chase it down. So you do.

The falling into the lap drunk and full of goodness was me, wasn't it?

Well, it's more like it wanders by and looks at you saucily, and you know you'd be a fool not to get up and chase it down. So you do.

As long as I can talk with my hands, kiss people on the cheek, drink, and leave a trail of broken hearts in my wake, I don't care if I've got to run after trouble like the hounds of Hades are after me or just let it pick me up in a bar, I will be fine. Trouble and I, we've got a tempestuous relationship.

Sorry guys. Math is more than you think it is. And nobody cares whether you like that fact.

Advanced math has a well-known liberal bias.

Advanced math has a well-known liberal bias.

The square root of -1 was invented by Communists.