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The Not-So-Forbidden Library by rat_traveler
Fandoms: Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime)
02 Mar 2025
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The printing press is an invention of utmost importance. Like, really.
By distributing a massive amount of information, you can sway votes or public opinion. By distributing and creating books, you can single handedly spread prosperity or religion.
The value of spreading knowledge is nearly impossible to concretely quantify.
In unrelated news, Anastasia and Subaru work together to make books a commodity.
Well, mostly Anastasia.
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- Part 2 of Re:A Rat's Branch
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Five Thousand Years of Number Theory by rat_traveler
Fandoms: Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime)
25 Dec 2024
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Algebra in general had only been a relatively recent invention. Sure, way back then, people were unfathomably smart. But anything more complex than arithmetic was reserved solely for specialists and intellectuals of the era.
So then, why wouldn't that be the case in Re:Zero?
Historically, "math" and "tedium" often gone hand in hand, given the lack of modern symbolic representation. In fact, negative numbers were only a thing in 200 BCE - roughly 2800 years after records of earliest civilization.
In unrelated news, Subaru asks Anastasia for a math lesson.
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- Part 1 of Re:A Rat's Branch