You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know...whoever was the first two figure out you could have two people play different instruments at once to make even better music must have been a hero
Pythagoras made some aspects of math secret mysteries only the fully initiated Pythagoreans were allowed to learn, as he thought learning about things like infintesimals might shake people's faith in numbers.
Oh my gosh, I can't resolve the square root of two into a ratio of two whole numbers! NUMBERS! WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME! THREE DOESN'T EXIST! FIFTEEN DOESN'T EXIST! SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT DOESN'T EXIST!
Oh my gosh, I can't resolve the square root of two into a ratio of two whole numbers! NUMBERS! WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME! THREE DOESN'T EXIST! FIFTEEN DOESN'T EXIST! SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT DOESN'T EXIST!
Narrator: "What's the largest number you can think of?" Respondent 1: "Um...hundred thousand?" Respondent 2: "Nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand." Respondent 3: "......a million." Narrator: "In actual fact, it's neither of these. The largest number is about forty-five billion." [screen displays "45,000,000,000"] Narrator: "Although, mathematicians suspect that there may be even larger numbers." [screen displays "45,000,000,001?"; a bell "ding" is heard]
Oh my gosh, I can't resolve the square root of two into a ratio of two whole numbers! NUMBERS! WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME! THREE DOESN'T EXIST! FIFTEEN DOESN'T EXIST! SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT DOESN'T EXIST!
Oh my gosh, I can't resolve the square root of two into a ratio of two whole numbers! NUMBERS! WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME! THREE DOESN'T EXIST! FIFTEEN DOESN'T EXIST! SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT DOESN'T EXIST!
Basically
Part of the reason heliocentrism was disrespected as a theory for so long was because it was associated with the Pythagorean school, who postulated "counter-earth" just to pad out the number of heavenly bodies to ten, which was a sacred number.
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(but yes that would suck)
just wait and see
Respondent 1: "Um...hundred thousand?"
Respondent 2: "Nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand."
Respondent 3: "......a million."
Narrator: "In actual fact, it's neither of these. The largest number is about forty-five billion."
[screen displays "45,000,000,000"]
Narrator: "Although, mathematicians suspect that there may be even larger numbers."
[screen displays "45,000,000,001?"; a bell "ding" is heard]
Oh, I guess you could count the sun.