Math? Really? Is this actual calculation or just the fine tuning of natural selection? Is a simple math test in order here to verify this?

Biological entities have evolved various mechanisms to optimize resources, but calling it math does seems a bit odd.

And rocks compute their acceleration due to gravity as they fall.

Do you think that Rocks are smarter than this Republican?

http://www.youtub...PcP0aFNE

Biological entities have evolved various mechanisms to optimize resources, but calling it math does seems a bit odd.

I was going to make a frivolous comment lampooning the absurdity of this research, but I had second thoughts after I went outside and saw how the weeds in my garden had multiplied.

" had multiplied." - Frilla

Indeed they can compute exponents.

A spinning wheel is smarter than the average American HS student since a spinning wheel computes complex exponents.

-1 = e**(I*pi)

is no mystery to a spinning wheel.

Now you have me worried; what does it mean if my Chinese cabbages are out there doing differential calculus?
Imagine the structural engineering calculations. Plants have to make roughly accurate forecasts of weather extremes including wind gusts, to calculate stem girth and root strength. The simulation software that deciduous trees employ is state-of-the-art.

That's fine as a bold Popperian hypothesis. Now go isolate those molecules and remove one to see what happens.

I have to admit I'm divided on what to think about this. On the plus side, that is a very nice picture of our two intrepid scientists standing by with an emergency flashlight, should one of their plants miscalculate its starch reserves and enter into metabolic distress. I'd give them an A minus for that.
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I wonder if their plants have square roots?
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"what does it mean if my Chinese cabbages are out there doing differential calculus?" - Rob

It means you have far more to fear than the coming Zombie Apocalypse.

http://patriotsur...&c3=

You have been warned.

So sockpupper VD, now will come deepsand, sinister1811 8 ball and 6 of 28 to rank you up.

It's always interesting that these other names crop up most often in the same order.

Progressives such as you lie, cheat, steal, vote, and vote often.

And dogs solve calculus equations when they catch a ball, right?

"Science journalist" is just a way of getting paid to be bad at two things at once.

Dope plants just get the munchies and scoff the lot in one sitting.