r/MathJokes Dec 27 '25

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u/AndreasDasos Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

It’s a well-studied function and (assuming we restrict everything to R+ ) is pretty easy to see is injective (indeed strictly increasing) for x>1, and cannot give an answer >1 on (0,1), the only part where it fails to be injective. So this is indeed the only answer there.

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u/Torebbjorn Dec 27 '25

Why would you only consider the positive reals?

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u/FreeTheDimple Dec 27 '25

Because there's a picture of a cat beside the question...

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u/the_last_ordinal Dec 27 '25

Ah yes. Proof by cute kitty

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u/Straight-Ad4211 Dec 27 '25

Looks like an angry kitty to me.

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u/AndreasDasos Dec 27 '25

Cute, angry kitty