Einstein's Special Relativity errors

True even in the baseball story... a "strike" has a very specific meaning (as does "foul", "hit", "run", "error", etc...) the umpire can have his opinion, but only within the scope of the definition of the terms.

Small example: Watch a game of baseball with a hard core baseball fan. When someone gets a "run" say something like "how many points did that guy just get?"

I don't watch basketball much, but occasionally they mention a Field Goal, and I'm like ..."I didn't see anyone kick the ball"

And WTF is a "Balk" ? ... best I can figure out is the pitcher gave someone a mean look that the umpire didn't like.

Buncha pansy snowflakes.

I think that is correct, but I wouldn't say so with vigah during a seventh inning stretch.



I know of an example in which mathematicians don't agree on a definition.

Now that I think about it, make that two.

I have seen two different definitions for trapezoid. In one, they have at least one set of parallel sides. In the other, they have only one set of parallel sides. I think here in California, the text books accept the second definition.

And while I'm thinking about it ...

In Britain, they say trapezia instead of trapezoid. Also, if I remember right, in Euclid, trapezia means any quadrilateral with no parallel sides.

I've seen two definitions of continuous function., but I don't believe I can state either one from memory.

Some people say “mass”, some say “matter”, some say “master”...🤪

Wow! That stuff was so long ago, (and I don't use it) so I don't remember what we were taught. But I do remember there was stuff like that

I had intended to say something about master or maybe massah, but I won't because it might be considered a microaggression.

I learned about the two ways to define trapezoid at church. For a while we had a college professor who helped at the youth group. He was our resident atheist. I know that seems odd, but his daughter attended our group.

I don't remember how the subject of trapezoids entered the conversation. It must have been when they asked us to draw a picture of God. We drew circles, lightning bolts, one person wrote "the word," and another drew a bottle of what I assumed was Jack Daniels (God is a spirit). At least I was not the only smart aleck. I drew a trapezoid. (edit) Maybe I drew a Mayan pyramid because I had learned that they (or maybe it was the Aztecs) believed that the universe is shaped like a pyramid. Anyway, the sides of the Mayan (Aztec?) pyramids are trapezoids.

The professor told me about how he disagreed with the California textbook definition of trapezoid because he wanted parallelograms to be trapezoids. It had something to do with a theorem in calculus for finding the area under a curve. I don't remember much past that because at the time, I knew nothing about calculus.

I did some research, trying to find definitions of trapezoid. I learned about the British and Euclid's use of the word, trapezium. Turns out that Euclid did not define trapezoid. I don't know who did. It must be something from nineteenth century bridge building, which used to be the a common place to find trapezoids.

That is hilarious... I was going to write "massah", but didn't want to come of like a Zionist racist....or is it a racist Zionist....