Post #2712470
2026-03-02 14:46 UTC
@sibrosan@mastodon.social
Nobody criticizes your initial response from Saturday~7am (CET). divbyzero even acknowledged your point on Saturday~3:30pm when he realized that you were assuming planar cuts.
But the end of your Sunday~8am post sounds to me like finger-pointing at divbyzero, just because he didn't mention the conic cuts initially.
As a matter of taste, I prefer cooperative and productive discussions where people try to understand each other instead of finger-pointing at (repairable) inaccuracies.
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@sibrosan@mastodon.social 2026-03-02 15:31
@hcschuetz@mastodon.social Well, somehow I thought of mathematics of an exact science whose practitioners spend much attention to correctly formulating theorems and constructing proofs for those. Imagine my desillusion when someone who profiles themself as a mathematician claims something in their field of expertise that is demonstrably wrong *while already knowing that it is incorrect* So it turns out I was mistaken. Sorry for that 🙄