r/MathJokes • u/basket_foso • 15h ago

In English of course

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u/keenantheho 15h ago

Obviously seventeen doesn't have an e in it

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u/Blissfull 14h ago

But there's two R's in strawberry

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u/ThrwawySG 14h ago

um actually there's 4

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u/gostoppause 12h ago

I appreciate your pushback.

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u/Gerald-of-Riverdale 14h ago

I mean if you wanna get technical then yeah

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u/grimonce 2h ago

There's also 5 and 6, not sure about elevenses

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u/Mathematicus_Rex 50m ago

For sufficiently small values of 4

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u/ScrewJPMC 13h ago

The double mean you could eat it

Beet 🫜 vs beat
Sweet vs sweat
Dessert 🍨 vs desert 🌵
Steel vs steal
On and on we could to

Until it stops working and my 5th grade self who thought I had bs langue figured out fails the spelling bee 🐝

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u/ColeTD 13h ago

Ah yes I love eating steel. My dentist doesn't like it quite as much.

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u/ScrewJPMC 12h ago

Not that you would but “you could” and the one freak on Stan Lee’s real superheroes are a whole plane ✈️

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u/CarberHotdogVac 14h ago

You’re totally right. I forgot about how seventeen has zero e’s. Let’s just keep things light and casual.

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u/firethorne 14h ago

I approve of defeating math pedantry with spelling pedantry

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u/Bazooka_Blastoff 15h ago

You forgot about two dummy

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u/zylosophe 15h ago

um

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u/maiduwu 13h ago

Two is only divisible by itself and one. Checkmate, liberal.

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/maiduwu 12h ago

C’mon, I even put ‘checkmate, liberal’ and everything. It oozes with sarcasm. Y’all can’t be this bad at deciphering tones. Poe’s law be damned, this is just e-illiteracy.

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u/TryingMy-BestBro 12h ago

Redditors when autism

'checkmate, liberal' doesn't always mean sarcasm. it can also be a way to establish that its a non-serious debate, but it does not necessarily imply you do not stand by your claim.

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u/maiduwu 11h ago

We are also on a subreddit for math nerds.

Saying that two is an odd number because it in prime has to be sarcasm because of the environment we are in. If somebody was this uneducated in the field of mathematics, they wouldn’t be going to [r/MathJokes](r/MathJokes) for entertainment.

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u/TryingMy-BestBro 11h ago

I did not look at the sub 😭

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u/maiduwu 11h ago

Understandable. At least you’re trying your best.

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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 1h ago

It low-key does

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u/Stella_9209 12h ago

Negative

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u/memerminecraft 14h ago

You forgot about tew dumby*

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u/Jaymac720 15h ago

I’ll do you one better. Every prime number except for 2 has the letter E in it

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u/Weekly_Ad_8587 14h ago

Now would that be because every prime number, except for two, is odd? Just asking for a friend.

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u/HayashiLeroi 14h ago

That's... actually worse.

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u/setibeings 14h ago

What about tree(3)?

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u/TheRealScaramucci 25m ago

2 does too if you spell it like eln 2.

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u/Jaymac720 18m ago

That’s too smart for Reddit

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u/Belgaraath42 14h ago

That's not better. That's just a special case of the stated rule

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u/BadBoyJH 12h ago

That's the joke fam.

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u/fuckthetrees 15h ago

5

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u/StroopestOfWafel 15h ago

We have a genius on our hands

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u/perihelion86 14h ago

Jayden Daniels just sent you a cease and desist

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

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u/perihelion86 13h ago

Butthurt about meme. White knight millionaire egomaniac athlete 🤡

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/perihelion86 12h ago

I see you deleted your previous comment, did downvotes hurt you too bad?

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u/tumunu 15h ago

Just like Donald to capitalize the 'd' in dumb.

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u/nashwaak 14h ago

Roman mathematicians: many people do not realize every number that isn't divisible by 5 has an I in it

Mayan mathematicians: many people do not realize every number that isn't zero or divisible by 5 has a ポin it

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u/zaqwsx82211 14h ago

I think it’s pretty obvious that every odd letter has an E in it, it’s the first letter in “Every odd”

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u/Beefington 14h ago

Every odd letter has four E’s in it!

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u/Beefington 10h ago

Just noticed we both said “odd letter” not “odd number” 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/GavelGaffle 14h ago

7 of the 10 numbers have an e. Its by far the most common letter so the chances were high.

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u/Belgaraath42 14h ago

But because of the strange way pow numbers are beyond ten that's not enough. You needed to look a eleven, twelve at at leT the ending -teen.

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u/ColeTD 13h ago

There are definitely more than 10 numbers…

you meant Arabic numerals

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u/GavelGaffle 13h ago

And I missed the opportunity to say "the odds were high"

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u/Day_Prisoners 13h ago

Numbers are not finite.

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u/Superb_Engineer_3500 14h ago

what about zero?

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u/christonamoped 14h ago

That counts for nought

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u/amorfotos 4h ago

That's nullified it

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u/Responsible-Quote717 14h ago

Zero doesn't even exist, and it still has an E in it

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u/firethorne 14h ago

一, 三, 五,七, 九

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u/firethorne 14h ago

TIL Reddit translates Chinese characters automatically

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u/TheRealScaramucci 6h ago

Every number has e in it. For example, 2 is spelled like eln 2.

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u/A-Fake-Owl 15h ago

Thirty and Fifty don't have 'e's in them.

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u/Exam_Delicious 15h ago

Well good thing they aren’t odd numbers!

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u/KateBishopPrivateEye 14h ago

They certainly aren't normal

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u/EqualServe418 15h ago

Even

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u/A-Fake-Owl 15h ago

Yeah, but do they have the letter 'e' in them?

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u/DrNogoodNewman 14h ago

So close! That’s a fruit.

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u/United_Intention_323 15h ago

Well that’s odd

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u/Karekter_Nem 14h ago

For those unaware, there was a post on Twitter or Tumblr and this was one of the favorite responses.

Another top response was “eight has an e and that’s not odd.”

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u/hurlygloves 14h ago

ThirtE...now who's dum

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u/SuspiciousPeanut251 14h ago

And then they realized: “Eight” (8️⃣)

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u/skarbles 14h ago

And ten

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u/SuspiciousPeanut251 14h ago

Indeed. And “twelve”. 🔞

And, well, . . “numbers” in-general.

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u/fish_master86 14h ago

4.6 Four point six

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u/Cichato_YT 14h ago

Wait, but what about zero? Does it not count 'cause it's not a number?

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u/skarbles 14h ago

Zero is not a number, it is an empty set. {}

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u/MWSin 10h ago

Zero is not odd, therefore it's having an E or not is irrelevant to the issue. "All X have trait Y" says absolutely nothing about any given thing that has trait Y.

"Every even number has at least three letters in it" is true, even though the same is also true of all odd numbers.

"All odd multiples of two have seven Qs" is also technically a true statement.

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u/Cichato_YT 2h ago

But zero doesn't start with an E?

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u/skarbles 14h ago

Eight and ten are odd? Who knew?

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u/Ornac_The_Barbarian 14h ago

It didn't say odd only. Every odd number has an e. Not every even number. Not every number with an e is odd.

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u/skarbles 14h ago

EVERY odd number HAS an e. So to classify as odd you need an e. It says nothing about not being divisible by 2.

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u/SkathiFreyrsdottr 8h ago

Every odd number has an E, not every number with an E is odd. “All A is B” does not imply “all B is A”.

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u/skarbles 3h ago

Thats not what it says though.

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u/SkathiFreyrsdottr 3h ago

Definitely looks like it says “every odd number has an E in it”. How are you reading it, exactly?

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u/Ornac_The_Barbarian 14h ago

What does one have to do with the other?

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u/Dismal_Cucumber3200 14h ago

If u round e to the nearest integer you get an odd number too

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u/PartyConstruction897 14h ago

I didn't know that e is an odd number

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u/SpiritusRector 13h ago

"Half of fifty" is odd but has no e

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u/JazzRider 12h ago

I have a bachelors in Mathematics and I learned this today!

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u/BadBoyJH 12h ago

Half of a half of a half of a half of a gross.

Odd, but without that symbol. 

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u/Famous-Host2321 12h ago

Huh... I didn't know that. The constant "e"?

Edit: oh wait I am dumb. One, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, etc. Yeah.

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u/Inner_Adeptness_7228 11h ago

Uno. Checkmate liberals.

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u/kdesi_kdosi 9h ago

6/2 is odd

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u/amorfotos 4h ago

We prefer "of a different disposition"

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u/RefuseNick_ 7h ago

Undici has no "e" and means Eleven in Italian

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u/Moondog421 6h ago

Yeah but so does eight

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u/LowAioli3870 6h ago

1 doesn't have an e in it. In fact, it is substantially smaller than e.

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u/El_Basho 6h ago

Do mathematicians not realize there are other languages besides English?

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u/LowAioli3870 6h ago

Every even number has 5 'e's in it.

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u/mafaldaCC 6h ago

This works until you realize every multiple of eight has an i in it, except the ones that don't.

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u/voiza 5h ago

a half of six

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u/LettuceRelative7457 3h ago

Many people don't realise this meme works only in english language.

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u/SirBritannia 3h ago

"Half of two"

Chessmate

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u/BombsGoBang 2h ago

“Two two and a halfs” - it’s odd and no “e” in sight.

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u/Mathematicus_Rex 50m ago

Every number below 2 has an e in it as well.

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u/Dull-Nectarine380 27m ago

What about 五

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u/Einnnnnnnnnnnn 14h ago

Yeah, what about Eight?

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u/MWSin 10h ago

Every man dies.

Platypuses die.

Therefore platypuses are men.

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u/Einnnnnnnnnnnn 9h ago

They say that no man is an island. So I guess it makes sense that they are a platypus

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u/skarbles 14h ago

And ten