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I CAN'T EVEN

Last posted Mar 24, 2013 at 12:43AM EDT. Added Mar 15, 2013 at 06:48PM EDT
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0.9999...=1 wrote:

>read your post
>stared at it for five hours
>scratched my head
>five more hours
>OH, I GET IT! HA HA HA… ha ha… ha… he… ho… fuck me

>Read bob's post
>List 1,3,5,7 in my head
>"But that's easy."
>Read this post
>…
>Hang On…

I hate addition/subtraction because it's so arbitrary.

There's no real proof or supporting reasons as to why 1+1=2. IT JUST IS.

This, I believe, is why I'm so great at complex mathematical equations, but not so much with fucking addition.

Last edited Mar 16, 2013 at 01:05PM EDT

CLYDE (Joe's Nightmare) wrote:

I hate addition/subtraction because it's so arbitrary.

There's no real proof or supporting reasons as to why 1+1=2. IT JUST IS.

This, I believe, is why I'm so great at complex mathematical equations, but not so much with fucking addition.

Actually, you can only be certain that 1+1=2 if r is an integer and |r| ≥3, where r is the radix. In base 2, aka binary, 1+1=10. In base −2, also called negabinary, 1=1=110. In base φ, or golden ratio base/phi-base/phinary, 1+1=10.01. Though 1+1= 2 in the imaginary base of 2i, or quarter−imaginary (because for the real numbers their representation is identical to that of base 4 or quaternary), in base (−1±i), or twindragon base (due to the associated fractal curve), 1+1=1100.
NOW YOU KNOW- AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE

Last edited Mar 16, 2013 at 02:31PM EDT

Teh Brawler wrote:

Odd numbers remove your ability to even.

The reason why I didn't get that is because it doesn't look like it makes grammatical sense to even notice. ("To even", is that even right?? But hey, this is the internet.)

0.9999...=1 wrote:

>read your post
>stared at it for five hours
>scratched my head
>five more hours
>OH, I GET IT! HA HA HA… ha ha… ha… he… ho… fuck me

Look up the paradox that inspired this user's name. Proceed to lose your ability to even.

CLYDE (Joe's Nightmare) wrote:

I hate addition/subtraction because it's so arbitrary.

There's no real proof or supporting reasons as to why 1+1=2. IT JUST IS.

This, I believe, is why I'm so great at complex mathematical equations, but not so much with fucking addition.

Mathematics as a concept has literally no proof as to why it as a concept is true because it is just that, a concept.
So I can't even begin to comprehend what might happen if people worked this out and started revolting against mathematicians, the revolutionaries would win; it's not as mathematicians are fighters…

Teh Brawler wrote:

GUISE WE TURNED THIS INTO A MATH THREAD

THIS IS THE GREATEST THREADJACK EVER AND IT WAS STARTED BY A MOD

Damn you titty sprinkles

Last edited Mar 19, 2013 at 02:51AM EDT

TheOpt1onal (Dead memes) wrote:

Okay, back to math…

Whoever solves this gets a cookie (and show your work):

(2x+7)*((y-6)9)=1323 Solve for x and y.

if the ((y-6)9) means y-6 multiplied by 9

(2x+7) * ((y-6)9) = 1323
simplify right bracket
(2x+7) * (9y-54) = 1323
solve brackets
2×9y + 108x + 63y – 378 = 1323
add 378
2×9y + 108x + 63y = 1701
i stopped since i think this might be wrong so i’ll try again

if the ((y-6)9) means y-6 to the power of 9

simplify ((y-6)9) first
y^9 – 54y^8 + 1296y^7 – 18144y^6 + 163296y^5 – 979776y^4 + 3919104y^3 – 10077696y^2 + 15116544y – 10077696
simplify
9y – 432y + 9072y – 108864y + 916480y – 3919104y + 11757312y – 20155392y + 15116544y – 10077696
simplified to
3615625y – 10077696
therefore
(2x+7) * (3615625y – 10077696)
multiply the brackets with each other
7231250xy – 20155392x + 25309375y – 70543872

ok this looks completely wrong so i give up. i can’t even remember the last time i did maths like this ;_;

Menthol wrote:

if the ((y-6)9) means y-6 multiplied by 9

(2x+7) * ((y-6)9) = 1323
simplify right bracket
(2x+7) * (9y-54) = 1323
solve brackets
2×9y + 108x + 63y – 378 = 1323
add 378
2×9y + 108x + 63y = 1701
i stopped since i think this might be wrong so i’ll try again

if the ((y-6)9) means y-6 to the power of 9

simplify ((y-6)9) first
y^9 – 54y^8 + 1296y^7 – 18144y^6 + 163296y^5 – 979776y^4 + 3919104y^3 – 10077696y^2 + 15116544y – 10077696
simplify
9y – 432y + 9072y – 108864y + 916480y – 3919104y + 11757312y – 20155392y + 15116544y – 10077696
simplified to
3615625y – 10077696
therefore
(2x+7) * (3615625y – 10077696)
multiply the brackets with each other
7231250xy – 20155392x + 25309375y – 70543872

ok this looks completely wrong so i give up. i can’t even remember the last time i did maths like this ;_;

>gives attention to post
>reads while understanding the equation
>reads last line and remembers that cant do math either

TheOpt1onal (Dead memes) wrote:

Okay, back to math…

Whoever solves this gets a cookie (and show your work):

(2x+7)*((y-6)9)=1323 Solve for x and y.

You can't. There are two variables, so it would have to be a two-part equation in order to find single values for both. You could solve for one or the other, but that would just get you a linear-to-linear rational function.
Now give me my damn pastry.

Skeletor-sm

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