thirty third dance | text;

[motioned]

how can x equal so many different things

isn't it only one letter

shouldn't it only be able to be one number too


[Math is hard, her life is difficult, and this was totally worth talking to the network about. Anything to distract her from homework...]

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[audio]

[classdismissed]

It's a variable. X doesn't mean anything until you give it a meaning.

[That's right, Griffin knows shit.]

[text]

[motioned]

yeah but shouldn't it only have one meaning

[Congratulations, Griffin, you're more intelligent than a bird.]

[text]

[classdismissed]

[He'll take it.]

It's just a way of designating something. If something doesn't have a name, if you don't know what it is, you call it x.

[text]

[motioned]

but even something you don't know anything about is still just one thing!

[text]

[classdismissed]

But there are a lot of unknown answers in math. Anything unknown is x.

[text]

[motioned]

how can there be lots of numbers for one lett

OH

[text]

[classdismissed]

Get it?

[text]

[motioned]

kind of

i don't get why they couldn't just change the letter though

[text]

[classdismissed]

Because there are only twenty six letters and a lot more unknown answers.

[text]

[motioned]

that's like saying there are only a few ingredients to a cake and tons of kinds of cakes to make so you should only use one ingredient

[text]

[classdismissed]

It's not like that at all.

[Jeez, this is a lost cause. But there's something familiar about it and Griffin keeps going.]

It's like when pirates use x. To mark the spot. There are a lot of different spots but they only ever use x, right?

[text]

[motioned]

but weren't pirates around hundreds of years ago

shouldn't we have gotten smarter

[text]

[classdismissed]

You don't fix what isn't broken. It's a good system. As soon as you see there's an x, you know that it's a problem you have to solve. It would be more confusing if they kept changing it.

[text]

[motioned]

but it is broken if it makes no sense!

[text]

[classdismissed]

It does, you're just being thick.

X means only one thing. X means unknown. If you don't know what the number is, you call it x.

[text]

[motioned]

don't call me thick!

i get it now, but it's still stupid!

[text]

[classdismissed]

It's not stupid. You just need to keep using it. Get easier.

[text]

[motioned]

i'm allowed to think it's stupid if i want, you know!

[text]

[classdismissed]

It's not though.

[video]

[motioned]

[Staring into your soul the NV. Hi.]

Well, that's your opinion!

[audio]

[classdismissed]

[agh don't look at that you don't know where it's been]

It's not stupid. It's the easiest thing in the world.

[video]

[motioned]

It isn't the easiest thing in the world, that's totally an exaggeration!