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kleinbl00 · 4488 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why should you learn math? Because fuck you, that's why.
I was more impressed that my redneck approach of "that looks about right" was the more dominant approach than "whip out some math and get efficient on that bitch." It was pretty fucking amazing, though - one of our final projects was to do the cost build, the analysis and build a working scale model of something capable of lifting a 150lb load 10' into the air and then move it side-to-side by 3'. I was so underwhelmed by the task that I designed mine out of bamboo and used a come-along as motive force. My build came in at $200.
The amazing thing to me wasn't that mine was far and away the cheapest approach, but that mine was the only successful approach. Here's all these 4th-year engineering students, and exactly two of them are capable of building a fucking hoist.