But can he invent himself some pussy?

OHHHHHH!

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Thanks for elaborating on that, Bort. It's definitely a clever idea, considering that it seems to have useful applications and, more importantly for me, is easily understood with even with a very limited background in mathematics.

Now as for the idea at the end of the video, of him teaching a class... Perhaps he could design the coursework instead? I can really only imagine his teaching experience being, uh, less than stellar. "Math is Fun and Great and Useful" is a tough sell to some jaded pre-teens.

Helo kids, uhhhm... if, you, uhhhm... find human emotions and social interaction, uhhhhhm.... confusing... uhhhhm... and nonsensical.... uhhhhhm... and that, uhhhhhhm... scares you a little... uhhhm.... then you probably find comfort in patterns, and... uhhhhhhm... maths has lots of comforting patterns.

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but that formula was invented by the BABYLONIANS like 3000 years ago. It's literally the first ever approximation of a square root ever conceived.

The Babylonian formula:

f(x) = 1/2 * (x + S/x)

and then rearranged....

= 1/2 * (x^2/x + S/x)

= 1/2 * ((x^2 + S) / x)

= (x^2 + S) / 2x

= (x * x + S) / (x + x)

The formula he just "invented".

Damn you Evan O'Dorney! DAMN YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL!

That's it, I'm getting my lunch money back.

... Waaaiiit, now I feel like I've really been cheated. Let's say we want to find the square root of S, and our first guess is x, and let's also say S/x = y. So if x is below the actual square root, y is above the actual square root, or vice versa. All this approximation is doing is splitting the difference between x and y. Sensible enough, but this is like finding out the magician didn't really steal your nose, that was actually his thumb. [SPOILERS]

Damn you Bort! DAMN YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL!

The kid never claimed to have invented a new way to approximate square roots. He said found some formula to relate the existing fast method with an existing accurate method in a novel way that probably has implications us liberal arts majors can in no way comprehend. Or it's cool in some way that only the other aspies at Intel understand.