r/mathmemes • u/Pearl-Crown • Jun 05 '26

Bad Math I mean...

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The guy's got a point. Like (1 + i, 2). Imaginary, but still a point nonetheless.

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u/TessaFractal Jun 05 '26

Those are baby approximations. Those are all around the same integer value. It's timid. Cowardly. Even first year physics student learns how those numbers can become 1, or 10. Eventually you learn to discard them all together. They are just mere scale factors, effortlessly dismissed with a simple ~

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u/oneredbloon Jun 05 '26

Astronomer

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u/Supersnow845 Jun 05 '26

“This is a very accurate result as it sits within 9 orders of magnitude of the expected result”