handoflixue comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 06 August 2011 12:09:05AM 1 point [-]

Not really. I have a reaction like that to non-Euclidean geometry, but I don't know many things it can be used for.

Comment author: handoflixue 06 August 2011 12:31:50AM 0 points [-]

Polar coordinates

Admittedly this comes up in my life about as often as Euclidean geometry does, which is to say basically never.