You have a point. Nobody is really sure whether Galois died for his politics or over some girl…
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Aaaand like contemporary porn, thread becomes too complicated too quickly.
Whatever happened to 1 + 1 = 2? Still my preferred genre.
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Sex is unique in that 1 + 1 can also equal 3. I’ve avoided this result so far.
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back when i was a kid we didnt have internet for that, we had our local network of stashed vhs casettes and magazines that circulated in various friendship circles. i get why people are trying to do something about this but thinking this will do anything other than piss off adults looking for porn legitimately is just hilarious, the people who are proposing this idiotic system, do they even use computers?
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ChuckV
October 20, 2016, 9:27am
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Hey, we all know what porn is. There’s no need to quote it here!
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Enkita:
Desire for the product is such that means will be found to circumvent any attempt at control.
We’ve now spent more than 2000 years trying to control alcohol, sex, and drugs, with similar results over and over. Do they seriously think a login form will stop people now? Ha.
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All of this. People forget that porn existed before the internet
They even forget all the old tropes about kids hiding porn under the mattress and passing porn around in their circle of friends, all of which are absolutely true.
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I only popped in because the comment count was 69.
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Real men like round numbers
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dave_b
October 20, 2016, 2:15pm
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And transcendential.
In mathematics, a transcendental number is a real or complex number that is not algebraic—that is, it is not a root of a nonzero polynomial equation with integer (or, equivalently, rational) coefficients. The best-known transcendental numbers are π and e. Though only a few classes of transcendental numbers are known (in part because it can be extremely difficult to show that a given number is transcendental), transcendental numbers are not rare. Indeed, almost all real and complex numbers are tra...
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I like round numbers and I cannot lie.
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I want to read that one, but as it’s going to list every number, I’m going to wait for it to Finnish first.
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Perhaps perfect:
In number theory, a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper positive divisors, that is, the sum of its positive divisors excluding the number itself (also known as its aliquot sum). Equivalently, a perfect number is a number that is half the sum of all of its positive divisors (including itself) i.e. σ1(n) = 2n. This definition is ancient, appearing as early as Euclid's Elements (VII.22) where it is called τέλειος ἀριθμός (perfect, ideal, or complete number). E...
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dave_b
October 22, 2016, 7:58am
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How about just friendly.
In number theory, friendly numbers are two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy index, the ratio between the sum of divisors of a number and the number itself. Two numbers with the same abundancy form a friendly pair; n numbers with the same abundancy form a friendly n-tuple. Being mutually friendly is an equivalence relation, and thus induces a partition of the positive naturals into clubs (equivalence classes) of mutually friendly numbers. A number that is not part of any friendly pa...
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renke
October 22, 2016, 9:21am
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Okay, Finland won this round. The German number is short and clear in comparison:
Achthundertsiebenundneunzigtausendsiebenhundertelf.
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