I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET A MATHS PART OF MY RENDERER WORKING FOR TWO DAYS NOW AND IT HAS BEEN WORKING THE WHOLE TIME BUT I WAS USING THE WRONG VALUES TO TEST IT THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS TO ME I WANT TO DIE

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@j4cobgarby TAGS ARE LOWERCASE AHHHHH

"Maths"

That will never sound right to me.

@Root Imagine if hot dog stands had a sign that said "Hot dog" instead of "Hot dogs"

Same difference

@Root do you say "mathematic", then?

@j4cobgarby "My math was wrong"
Just as in "My assumption was wrong"
Or "My data was wrong"

Maths just doesn't make sense because it isn't a group of singular things. It's just math. And yeah, "physics," I know.

Idk. It just sounds so weird to me, but it apparently doesn't break language rules any more than other, similar words do.

@AlgoRythm Hot dog stands sell multiple hot dogs, though.

Math is just math, no matter the type. Doing trig and doing calculus is till doing math.

I think a better parallel would be "Eating" vs. "Eatings"

@Root maths is multiple things: geometry, trigonometry, calculus, etc.

@j4cobgarby Do you say "math" when referring only to trig?

@Root no, I say trig, which I would say is a branch of mathematics

@Root and let's face It, math is the American English way of saying maths, and since uk English was the original, it's correct

I think the difference is that I use "math" to refer to the concept of math as a whole, not to any individual discipline (or group thereof).

"My math was incorrect" vs "My trig was incorrect"

@Root You mean the concept of Mathematics, not the concept of Mathematic... ;)

At first I read reindeer and I was like a reindeer that does math? Must be one of Santa's....

@datawraith lots of maths involved in delivering presents, you know- you could interpret as the travelling salesman problem though! But there are quite a lot of houses to deliver to, and our best algorithms for that problem are O(n^2)

@j4cobgarby The original laws set forth by Hammurabi was precedent for legal systems the world over. They declared "an eye for an eye" for nearly all crimes, yet for some reason we no longer follow that practice.

Precedence and correctness are not correlated.

Thy argument is as ridiculous as thee!

@Root except that's a law, and this is language - as soon as you take something like this out of context it's no longer valid

@j4cobgarby I think it's more relevant in the case of language because language changes and evolves so quickly. What was correct years ago no longer is.