Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

my initial reaction to the question of math being discovered or invented was "its discovered, obviously" but after more pondering and some conversations with roommates my answer is now "maybe"

@vaporeon_ eeveon

@lapis the answer is "18". whatever that means

@lapis hold on let me get my calculator

According to Videogames "flux", a mathematical concept, is a construct, hence math is invented. Checkmate, discoverists

@lapis what is 2 + 2

@Thomas sounds like something an inventor would say

@sidd_harth0_5h4h sure but i need to see the first one first

@sidd_harth0_5h4h that was the song!

@cam @vaporeon_ strange, my friends are always telling me that....

@vaporeon_ if you take the determinant of a checkerboard matrix, where the matrix is n x n and n is an odd number, the determinant is always zero!

@vaporeon_ consider matrices that I call "checkerboard matrices". That is, if an element is in the rth row, cth column, and r + c is an even number, then the element is zero

The nonzero elements can be any number you want

Here are two examples:

@vaporeon_ oh let me teach you an obscure determinant fact I discovered a couple years ago

@vaporeon_ it also had graphs that were fun to look at and JavaScript code I wrote to generate the data for the graphs

@vaporeon_ did you see any of my recent stardew math

@aschmitz CHARLI XCX AND DANNY BROWN COLLABORATED?????