x=5. I spent 9 years building furniture and cabinetry, and never once met anyone, other than myself, who even knew what the Pythagorean theorem is, let alone how to apply it in wood work. Geometry matters. Trigonometry matters. Anyone who says they don't should be driven out to the middle of the wilderness, and left there, naked.

I will never understand how we make heroes out of people who can do whatever with a ball or a puck, yet Isaac Newton is mistaken for a cookie.