All things are...
Maths?
(Or Math as it is correctly pronounced)
Completing a game of Super Mario Brothers is the mathematic equivalent of solving complex mathematical calculations, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prestigious tech university said in a recent study [PDF] that navigating the world's most famous plumber through a single level can require the same …
"Conversely, our American cousins prefer to use the term 'sports' when they actually mean 'sport'."
Not exactly. We use the term 'sports' when we are talking about millionaires chasing their balls around a field. Hip hop is millionaires grabbing their balls in front of people.
I say that the correct pronounciation is "maths", as it's short for "mathematics".
Out of curiosity, what do you consider "math" to be short for ("mathematic" in the singular)?
Astonishingly, it turns out that "mathematics" can also be shortened to "math", by removing the final seven letters.
I realize this is a difficult concept for some of you. Try working it out by hand.
I love how I've found out the proportion of people with humour to the proportion without...
Or is it the number who can understand sarcasm? I'll admit defeat if it was not a funny joke. To me it will always be "Maths" even if it sounds like an erroneous plural.
Relivant Youtube: http://youtu.be/SbZCECvoaTA
About 2 seconds into thinking "pshaw! what tosh!" and similar Old Man thoughts, it dawned on me that lots of real world processes would, if considered by a computer, be impossibly hard. Like: your dog catching a frisbee (3d differential equations of motion). Or packing your shopping bag efficiently as it comes off the conveyor (knapsack problem). Or navigating by magnetic field (who knew birds could do vector calculus and field equations?)
Nature is a truly wonderful thing.
Obviously the equation for solving all gaming problems is up up down down left right left right B A.
ID Software simified it some way down the line to IDDQD.
And eventually Call of Duty solved all the problems with no equation at all by simply having no challenge to get in the way of a crap plot to begin with.