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Anonymous Mon May 22 21:47:27 2017 No.8929626 [Reply] [Original]

Learning "advanced" Euclidean geometry is pointless, isn't?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 22 21:55:59 2017 No.8929643 >>8929626 You mean those problems with dozens of points, lines and circles where you're supposed to calculate the distance between A and B using some obscure theorem name after some obscure mathematician? Yeah.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 22 22:12:32 2017 No.8929673 >>8929626 Learning Euclidean geometry is pointless

>>	Anonymous Mon May 22 22:15:51 2017 No.8929676 >>8929626 just use calculus

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 13:03:56 2017 No.8930706 File: 81 KB, 182x249, 1488246337843.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Absolutely not. Points are important in Euclidean geometry, and will not become redundant when it becomes more advanced.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 15:37:30 2017 No.8930939 >>8929626 I don't know Ravel, why do you ask?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 16:29:07 2017 No.8931002 >>8930939 Ravel was a composer

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 17:58:18 2017 No.8931180 File: 30 KB, 518x356, 1483824602991.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8929673 >there are no points in Euclidean geometry Lol europoor education

>>	Anonymous Wed May 24 00:55:23 2017 No.8931829 File: 658 KB, 631x631, 1482869439239.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8929626 Why not use all that time and mental power to figure out a way to terraform all the shit hole parts of Africa?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 24 14:31:28 2017 No.8932897 >>8929626 rather study number theory and go hunt for the next largest prime number