/sci/ - Science & Math

what the fucking fuck is going on in this thread

Hey /sci/, I've been trying to do this problem in Wolfram for the past hour, and I feel like I'm just pounding my head against a wall. I looked everywhere, can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, somebody want to help me feel less retarded? All I've been getting is an echo the entire time.

Integrate[(x^2 * Cos (x)) + (x * Arctan (x)) * Sec (x) , {x}]

>>5483756

mfw this statement

Ok /sci/, I wasn't sure where to post this, but I think it goes here. I've been thinking about something and it's driving me crazy.

What if 4 wasn't 4? What if 4 was really 5, but we only know 4 to be 4 because it's been established for centuries that 4 is 4. Let's say that "I" is equal to what we know to be 1. We know 4 to be I I I I. But what if, when numbers were being established, 4 was I I I I I? You're probably thinking "No you dumbass, that's 5." But you only say that because you know I I I I I to be 5. What if the numbers went 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but 5 was equal to 4 because 5 was I I I I and 4 was I I I I I? Everything we know is only what we know because at some point in time it was established to be what we know. Someone understand what I just said and get back to me.

>>4893533

WTF?
am i the only one who cant read half of this shit?
its so badly written i just cant make heads or tails of what op is trying to say.

>>4658459
Things of significant interest.

>>4606631
/sci/ has some of the best troll threads on 4chan.

Watching various scientific fields troll each other is the most entertaining form of education I have ever experienced.

Your consciousness is merely a series of thoughts, all collected within a single place.

>>4390778
Well I'll be a hog-monkey's uncle.
It turns out everything I thought I knew about mathematics is wrong. I guess I'll have to drop out of school and travel the rails with my hobo bindle.

>>4344937
Fuck.

Holy fuck.
Care to elaborate?