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minus-squarePM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down3·2 days ago it’s not actually math. It literally is math tho It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results. Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.
minus-squarebaltakatei@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoLike robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoNone of those contexts include ordering a number of beers
minus-squarePM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoBut that’s literally the joke in the meme tho
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days agoOstensibly it’s used a lot in quantum physics
It literally is math tho
Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.
Like robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).
None of those contexts include ordering a number of beers
But that’s literally the joke in the meme tho
Ostensibly it’s used a lot in quantum physics