OT RIP to a real American Hero, Hidden Figures mathematician Katherine Johnson.

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    Age is just a number.
     
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    Rest in peace
     
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    A genuine heroine for the ages.
     
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    We talked about her in a computer science class once upon a time. I just want to say the stigma that girls can't do math is so stupid. Some "stigma's" I can understand, but you have to have like 0 understanding of modern or renaissance or medieval or older history to think girls can't do math. There have been some AMAZING mathematical minds inside of a girl's body. When you start working through computer science courses the number of women who were vital to getting to where we are today is astounding.

    These are very good reads.
    https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued
    https://timeline.com/women-pioneere...hen-men-took-their-industry-over-c2959b822523

    It feels weird being a male in this industry, I love computer sciences and math, and software but always wonder am I part of the problem.
     
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    When I was in college I consistently scored 98 percent in calculus and still guys in the class would tell me women couldn't do math.
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Especially a 3-digit one.
     
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    There are far fewer differences between men and women than stereotypes and cliches would have you believe. The vast majority of them come from the social norms that each is taught from birth.
     
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    In my immediate family math ability in order is myself, my mother, my brother, my father, my sister, my cat. Gender all over the map.
    At a recent Thanksgiving my sister was lamenting being bad at math. A cousin who was there commented his immediate family were all considered smart but all bad at math, and he erroneously stated it must be a family trait. I told him I BEG your pardon...

    Tactlessness is a family trait.
     
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    Is it a male cat or female cat?
     
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    Everyone knows dogs are better at math than cats.
     
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    That's pretty sexist, playing on stereotypes that dogs are boys and cats are girls.

    I expect better of you.
     
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    Female cat. Cats can, however, tell time.
     
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    In a computer it is a two digit number.
     
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    The ladies age is only less than 3 digits in a computer that does math in an arithmetic base of greater that 10.

    The number of digits used to show any value, is a function of the base number system.

    Not a function computer verses men. We both can and do use more than one base numbering system, binary, BCD, EBCD, Octal, Polar, ...

     
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    Digit means a single numerical character. A two digit number would be a number of any length that is composed by the two digits '1' and'0'. For example, the number '13' could be represented by '1101', a binary, (2), number using just two digits. I hope this makes it clear to you.
     

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