Look Around You - Maths

You can even play one of the fake games ("Diarrhea Dan") profiled in the episode on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/compute...

moultano3• 16 years ago

Why is this shit showing up on Hacker News? There are plenty of places I can find funny videos if I want that. Please don't let it infect this place.

gfodor• 16 years ago

Live a little. This is a classic.

moultano3• 16 years ago

When I want to live a little, I'll go read reddit. HN is not the place for this.

mcnemesis• 16 years ago

I think, people are skeptic to vote / comment on technical issues than is the case when stuff is for 'real' people :)

HilbertSpace• 16 years ago

Garbage.

Get that MESS OFF HN.

That garbage is a special case of a huge ocean of related grabage that has nothing at all to do with 'math' and, instead, is some brain-dead, K-12, social, cultural, economic, WTF nonsense. Follow the money: The unions of K-12 teachers want taxpayers to send more money for more nonsense. Sickening.

jokermatt999• 16 years ago

Uhh...you realize this is actually a joke show? This is not a serious documentary. You can certainly still object to it being on HN, I just thought you should realize this is not actually intended to teach maths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_around_you

CallMeV2• 16 years ago

It's a satire on the BBC's 1970s school programming output.

The writers know what they are doing; this parody of mathematics is exactly how real mathematics sounds like to a lay person. This is nonsense, sure: but so is the satirical poetry of Lewis Carroll and the poems of Edward Lear, and the most erudite experts in the English language derive much pleasure from reading such nonsense.

Indeed, the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for self-parodies such as this show.

acconrad• 16 years ago

First time I saw this I laughed so hard I cried

Look Around You - Maths

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