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Big Macintosh loves a very specific brand of mathematics, but never had the guts to tell anypony other than his sisters. He finally confesses his undying devotion to this brand of mathematics to Twilight, with Applejack observing her brother in action.

The result is anything but expected.

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Comments ( 57 )

Lol, Twi just brain-gasmed :twilightoops:

This technobabble would do captain James T Kirk proud.

Twilight b jelly :twilightangry2:

well...i CLEARLY did not see that coming. it WAS NOT predictable at all

Well, time to go back to my trig homework I guess...

Mac's got brains... mares LOVE brains... :eeyup:

Strangly, I can kinda understand where Big Mac is coming from. Especially in his apparent knowledge of calculus, at least.


He's afraid of his intelligence, since most of the other Apples are---more down to earth (sorry, I didn't mean a pun, it just happened) than he is. Plus he's a little ashamed of it. If anything, everypony in his family--nay, his entire clan--should be more than happy and willing to accept his gifts, instead of making him seem like a pariah in his own home. And he should not use it as a burden, but as a blessing.:twilightsmile:

I have dealt with that myself, and in cases still am dealing with it (Why else do you think I'm still single :raritycry::raritycry::raritycry:) It seems so much in society that it's more accepting to be a ditz, or basically someone that flows with traffic, just to deal with peer pressure, and confronting to the so-called standard, that to take the plunge and be your own stallion.

Ultimately, who cares if you have the physique of Atlas and a penis that makes Mandingo a little emasculated, if you are a douche mentally? I'm pretty sure that there is someone that cares and loves you for being YOU--both benefits and follibles.


......:facehoof: Twilight, that's your cue to ask Macintosh out, move your flank and get your stallion!!!! He's waiting for you!!!!:twilightblush::twilightblush:



......and now I stand alone again...:raritycry::raritycry:

The formula given for sample deviation in the story assumes that the mean of the population is known. In the case of a harvest, only the sample mean is known, and you must divide by (N - 1) instead of N to avoid bias.

Math. A beautiful language involving numbers.

Hah! Nice one.

Way to give Big Mac some smarts, you know?

~Skeeter The Lurker

Looks like the plan to get more hooves for the farm and increasing your family's intelligence is working well there, Applejack.

Yes! That was awesome!

Wonderful job.

May sound assholish... but I was expecting him to be better at maths.

so...know the math get the ladies?

Now that's two things they have in common.
3518758
Or at least the nerds.

Please fix 3518066, and change "much cider apples" to "many."

Very good fic. :eeyup:

3518066 That's just the example in that textbook. Big Mac kinda went off on a tangent on other things.

3519554 Will do for the cider.

Is it sad that while reading this I understood everything that Big mac was saying

3519952 Not at all. I've taken a statistics class once before and am currently taking two for this semester: one for just statistics, and one for population dynamics.

Okay then.....*faves*:eeyup::eeyup::eeyup:

Poor Cheerilee...

3519952
no, just means you payed attention in school or liked math
if there is shame in that then someone stap me in the sides of my head because i want to hear none of that

PPS

Within one deviation is just 68 percent of the apples we could have, and within two deviations is 95 percent. We’ve rarely had a harvest year in which we could both harvest and process 95 percent of our good cider apples.

That is not how standard deviations work. Big Mac is conflating apples and outcomes. There is a 68% probability that any outcome drawn randomly from a normal distribution (which crop yields cannot be assumed to follow) will lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean, but "68% of the apples we could have" is a quantity of apples, not a probability. 68% of the maximum number of apples might be any number of standard deviations above or below the mean, depending on the distribution. One might write this off as a mistake of terminology, except that the second line shows that Big Mac really is talking about 95% of the max rather than 95% probability. I hope you don't make this kind of elementary error when it really counts.

On a different note, intellectual pickings must be pretty slim in Ponyville if introductory statistics is enough to get Twilight lovestruck.

3523053 Well, it is significantly harder to write this down in a story format than fill it out on a test. I'm currently taking both a conceptual and practical statistics class, one focusing more one Tukey's tests, two-way ANOVAs and such, while the other is focused more on population dynamics, including fecundity, utilization rate, life tables and other things.

So please forgive the guy (me) who's not the best at math for making a little mistake like this.

Yes, Ponyville isn't that intellectually advanced, since most ponies don't need to be.

Comment posted by RedTech deleted Jul 27th, 2020

Math, Twilight bait.

Statistically speaking, Twilight loves it. :trollestia:

I just love the idea of Big Mac having such a passion for math. Though, that said, he may well have bitten off more than he can chew by showing his skills off to Twilight...

You get a like from me!

Well, you got a like for the last chapter, now you've got a fave.

Still, a conclusion to the budding romance would be nice, but if you decide to leave it how it is, that's fine by me.

There were a couple of spelling mistakes that I noticed- "wat" should have been "way", and "mroe" should have been "more".

Apart from that, your story was very well written, and I have enjoyed it immensely.

Good luck for the future!

Big Mac as a closet genius? I've seen other things, but... y'know.

More please. 10 plus chapters please. :pinkiecrazy: Please.

Aw yeah!
Big Mac getting his math on :eeyup:

Continue! Please! God knows we need more Twimac!

I don't know why but reading this fic is making me feel smarter.:pinkiecrazy:

Honestly. This was great even as oneshot but now that you added the second chapter, you got me curious. And when you have me curious enough write a comment on my phone, you have done something right. That means that I would love to see this expanded into full fledged 10 000 - 100 000 word story at least. Please at least consider it.

:twilightblush: So, uh, want to go measure the area under some curves? :twilightsheepish:

“What truth?”

Big Mac just finished building an Oscillation Overthruster and needs you to test it.

there's a whole lot mroe too it

*more *to

Overall, I think this fic suffers from a crippling lack of Tom Lehrer.

Very funny. Will there be more, will Twilight and Big Mac become a coupledom?

Yeah! *Asian power activated* *boop!*

Yes, I am Asian (Filipino :rainbowdetermined2:)

I'm studying the same things even college :pinkiehappy:

:pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy: i love it great fic :pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy::pinkiehappy:

[Mathing intensifies]:eeyup:

If Cheerilee was here she would already claim him the instant.

Sweet little thing you've got going on here... Oh, and

lot mroe too

Gosh darnit, I did NOT want flashbacks to Statistics class >.<
I'm more of a logic and arithmetic sort of guy.

Dammit Big Mac.

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