Bad Math Jokes

[Ibix]

This one is subtly good

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If, like me, you didn't get that one, see this thread and the Quora post linked therein. "95% of people" is something of an underestimate. 95% of maths professors may be an underestimate.

 

[Borg]

I would like to know what is "subtly good" about a solution with 80 digit numbers.

 

[Ibix]

I would like to know what is "subtly good" about a solution with 80 digit numbers.

I suspect it's a bit of a number theorist in-joke. The Quora post has a link that purports to explain the history, but just seems to link back to the same Quora post. Anyway, it has the form of one of those click-bait-y "95% of MIT grads can't solve +3=5! If you're smart enough to work out what is then you'll love to watch the adverts on our YouTube channel!" But this one is actually a very hard problem.

 

[Borg]

I tried the problem for a while and attempted to trim it down in several ways with the thought that the numbers would possibly be less than 100 but I kept getting solutions that required progressively larger numbers. Fortunately, I didn't have the desire to start exploring into the 1000 range that wouldn't have come any closer to working out either.

 

[fresh_42]

I can solve it for $\sqrt[3]{2}$ instead of $4.$

 

[Ibix]

Yeah, I tried it for a bit before giving up and Googling it, which took me to mfb's post.

 

[Borg]

I can solve it for $\sqrt[3]{2}$ instead of $4.$

If you change 4 to 3.75, it can be solved with numbers less than 10.

1, 1, & 7

 

[fresh_42]

If you change 4 to 3.75, it can be solved with numbers less than 10.

1, 1, & 7

If you change to a number less than 1.5 then it cannot be solved at all (with positive numbers).

Nesbitt's inequality.

 

[Borg]

The whole apples, oranges and bananas being equal to 4 reminds me of a previous post of mine.

 

[Ibix]

The whole apples, oranges and bananas being equal to 4 reminds me of a previous post of mine.

Tree is a number in some Irish accents...

 

[BWV]

Tree is a number in some Irish accents...

Tree(4) is a number, and a rather large one

 

[fresh_42]

The whole apples, oranges and bananas being equal to 4 reminds me of a previous post of mine.

A tree is a unit. I always used it when I wanted to demonstrate that a unit is part of an exercise, or that different units cannot be added:

> $3m+4m=7$
< $7$ what? Trees?

> $2m^2+ 3m^3=5$
< $2$ trees and $3$ bushes are what?

 

[julian]

Tree. 5 trees.

 

[malawi_glenn]

 

[Borg]

-1 didn't go out with him either because she was an i cube.

 

[jedishrfu]

...which was a negative in my book.

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[DrGreg]

That also works for decades of your life, 0–10 years old, 10–20 years old, etc

 

[benorin]

That also works for decades of your life, 0–10 years old, 10–20 years old, etc

I don’t recall the citation but I remember reading somewhere that a human has experienced half their perceived lifespan by age ~22 (and that’s without time dilation, physicists make relativistic shenanigans if they please?)

 

[benorin]

 

[benorin]

 

[benorin]

link to full article: https://bigthink.com/the-well/atheism-rare-rational/

 

[BillTre]

 

[DaveC426913]

 

[mfb]

Now I wonder what's in the other regions of overlap.

 

[Ibix]

Now I wonder what's in the other regions of overlap.

A complete version exists in the Lame Jokes thread. (I think wasp needs to be read as both wasp and WASP for the incel/fig overlap to work.)

 

[pinball1970]

A complete version exists in the Lame Jokes thread.

It took me a while
The other shared parts made the whole thing make sense

 

[Ibix]

It took me a while

It relies on knowing that an incel is a male who can't see why despising all women who won't have sex with him on demand might be off-putting to women, assumes that attitude won't shine through every interaction he ever has with a woman, and then blames all women for him not having any luck with the ones he tries with.

 

[DaveC426913]

 

[pinball1970]

It relies on knowing that an incel is a male who can't see why despising all women who won't have sex with him on demand might be off-putting to women, assumes that attitude won't shine through every interaction he ever has with a woman, and then blames all women for him not having any luck with the ones he tries with.

Actually it was the fig / date / date plus excel part that clicked it.
I saw a true crime program on an incel person who decided to kill as many people as possible by driving his truck on the pavement as fast as he could.
Very disturbing.
A very good channel on YouTube that shows interviews then applies criminal psychology techniques.

 

[DaveC426913]

I saw a true crime program on an incel person who decided to kill as many people as possible by driving his truck on the pavement as fast as he could.

Well this took a dark turn...

Happened here in T.O. Canada is smaller than US by an order of magnitude, so ten dead to us is like 100 to America. We just don't get this level of violence up here.

 

[pinball1970]

Well this took a dark turn...

Happened here in T.O. Canada is smaller than US by an order of magnitude, so ten dead to us is like 100 to America. We just don't get this level of violence up here.

That's the one. This guy is very good, in depth analysis.

 

[Johnny Yuma]

Not all math puns are terrible...just sum

 

[BillTre]