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Stamets@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

Tell me I'm wrong. TELL ME I'M WRONG.

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Tell me I'm wrong. TELL ME I'M WRONG.

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Stamets@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago
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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
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    2 + 2 = 4

    2 x 2 = 4

    3 + 3 = 6

    Therefore 3 x 3 = 6

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    x^3=125

    x^3=(1+2)5

    x^3=35

    x=5

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      x⁴=625

      x⁴=(6-2)5

      x⁴=45

      x=5

      • sfled@lemm.ee
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        I love Facebook math.

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    Relevant xkcd

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    TELL ME I’M WRONG.

    you’re wrong. x = -5 is also a solution lmao

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      Is it though? Doesn’t it have to be (x)² then? Because -5² = -25 ?

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        No, because what you are doing isn’t x^2 with x=-5. It is -x^2 with x=5.

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        If you multiply a negative number with a negative number you get a positive number.

        Edit: Sorry, misread your comment, I clearly didn’t get enough sleep. In printed mathematics, the unary minus sign has a lower precedence than the exponent, but in programming, it’s the other way around, with the unary minus being applied first. So your right in printed mathematics, but wrong in programming.

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          No they’re wrong in mathematics too. -5^2 is -25, but -5^2 is not the same as x^2 where x= -5. No brackets needed on x.

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          Well that is not debatable, I am talking about the difference between -5² = -25 and (-5)² = 25

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            Open desmos. Graph y = x^2. Then graph y = (x)^2. Recognize that both graphs are identical. Realize the flaw in your argument.

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            I edited my comment before you posted your comment. You’re right.

  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works
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    Is she setting up a silencer?

    • Wilco@lemm.ee
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      She is about to silence someone, that’s for sure.

    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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      She’s taking it off to send a message to the rest of the class

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    X^2=625

    X=65

    Holy shit it works

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      X=25 actually. We were wrong about the pattern; obviously the square cancels with the first digit

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    Sometimes it be like that. Somes it don’t.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Okay, now try it with x²=16!

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      x^2=16!

      x^2=20922789888000

      x^2=20922789888000

      x=922789888000

    • Pringles@lemm.ee
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      x = 5 in this case as well, unless you can post a mathematical proof it is not.

      • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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        Plus we already found x once in the meme.

    • Oniononon@sopuli.xyz
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      X= D6. Simple.

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    This reminds me of a maths test I had when we had just been taught to calculate how many m2 an area was.

    I seem to recall seeing an example of the formula where the answer was 2 m2, ok, looking at the test there was a question that had answer to be 6 m2, but me trying to be clever, though that the 2 in m2 represented the value of the answer, wrote 6 m6.

    I failed that test…

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      That’s why you have to do more than one (1) homework

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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      this is some galaxy brain move.

  • tetris11@feddit.uk
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    the left 2 is smaller than the right 2, so the answer is actually

    x = (size) 5
    

    But the size is represented by a whitespace symbol. Still, that’s gonna propagate and totally flummox a future calculation on that x

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    try it when X equals 3

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      X=3

      • kambusha@lemm.ee
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        It works!

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    Dammit! That’s genius!

  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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    Me IRL solving primitives sometimes

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    Mario Maker players all know x=9

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