• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Yeah but for those of us who actually studied math, it’s silly. Rote arithmetic barely qualifies, you hardly even see actual numbers in math except for a handful of single digit integers for exponents, subscripts, coefficients, etc.

    It’s like calling a golf cart a “sports car”.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      how many people in the general population have mathematics degrees?

      1.3 of undergrad degrees are in mathematics, and only about 40% of USA adults have a bachelors or higher, so about .053% of Americans have math degrees, or we can say 99.47% do not. so out of 2000 people, only 1 of them has a math degree.