the-real-seebs:

jumpingjacktrash:

strictlyquadrilateral:

the other day i was flopped on seebs’ bed with four of the cats, half-asleep, and i said “seebs….hey seebs…there’s like….ten million cats”

and she looked at me, counted them silently, counted them silently in the other direction, and said “i think you’re off by eighteen.”

mathematicians: adding is for students

the rest of us: ok then i have ten million cats, how bout that

mathematicians: well… it’s an integer so why not

i was using a logarithmic scale, you doofuses

and he said “a million”, i think, not “ten million”. only “million” is probably 2^20 because i’m a computer person

so i counted, observed that it was 2^2, not 2^20, and that the difference was 18.

and if you don’t think cats should be counted on a logarithmic scale, you don’t have enough cats.