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If it wasn't in an encyclopedia, you just trusted word of mouth. (startrek.website)
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[-] Louisoix@lemm.ee 29 points 8 months ago

In the first grade I got curious about negative numbers in my calculator. The teacher told me it was a mistake and I shouldn't play with it.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Teacher should have shown you how a number line extends forever in both directions (no reason to think she should have known about imaginary numbers making it extend orthogonally as well)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

The teacher probably had no idea what negative numbers were, and if they did, had no training on how to explain that to a six-year-old.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

If your teacher was born in the 1800s she would have been right. Negative numbers weren't accepted as "real" for a very long time.

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