'Empire's Terrence Howard Invented His Own Weirdo Version Of Math

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[nickcarraway]

According to Howard, he was studying chemical engineering at New York's Pratt Institute when he had a disagreement with a professor over a complex mathematical problem: 1 x 1. We are not joking. Howard strongly believes that one times one equals two, and the media is lying to you about it equaling one. As he put it on a Rolling Stone profile on him:

"How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be." This did not go over well, he says, and he soon left school. "I mean, you can't conform when you know innately that something is wrong."

Yes, he dropped out over the 1 x 1 = 2 controversy, and he's still passionate about educating people about their mathematical misconceptions. In the same article, he said: "This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one," he says. “They won't have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math."

[ClearCase_guy]

I have one apple.
I’m going to give you this one apple.
I’m going to give it to you one time.
Here you go. Here is your one apple. We are finished with this transaction.

How many apples do you have?

[JennysCool]

Another "Empire" nutcase.

[ClearCase_guy]

[decal]

“...he dropped out over the 1 x 1 = 2 controversy”

Thanks, God, for that - anyone want a chemical engineer around who can’t figure out that one one equals...one?

[rightwingcrazy]

“How many apples do you have?”

Sorry. Just et it.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

On February 26, 2013, Howard also said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he had earned a PhD degree in chemical engineering from South Carolina State University (SCSU) that year. He however never attended that university and in fact SCSU does not to confer doctorates in chemical engineering. Instead, Howard was awarded an honorary degree of "Doctorate of Humane Letters" (DHL) from SCSU after speaking at its commencement ceremony in 2012 - Wikipedia

[bhl]

I bet he can recruit a few from the the Flat Earth Society to join his cause!

[Bob434]

you didn’t multiply the apple against itself to start with- to multiply means to increase- If you increase it one whole time- it equals 2,

I dunno- I’m just guessing- I stunk at math

[V_TWIN]

If it weren’t for Jon Favreau nobody would know who this guy was.

So thank a White guy terry

[KarlInOhio]

Mr. howsrd, what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. (Stolen from Billy Madison and used every time pResident Potatohead opens his mouth)

[ClearCase_guy]

An Apple multiplied against itself cannot stand.
— Abraham Lincoln

[V_TWIN]

You do know math is racist......right?

[Bob434]

nope- it doesn’t work- if you multiply by 2 it doesn’t equal three- ok back to the jungle with me-

[nickcarraway]

1 pear? A quince?

[Bob434]

LOL- good one-

[Bob434]

well, i am white, therefore i am a white supremacist according to the left

[nickcarraway]

I was thinking this guy should form a company with Kyrie Irving and Jaden Smith.

[Dutch Boy]

How can the Earth be flat when it’s hollow and filled with reptilian humanoids, Germans and giants? Flat Earth, that’s just crazy talk.

[V_TWIN]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.