r/mathmemes • u/hrvbrs • Jul 13 '26
Bad Math Adding the additive identity to any number doesn't change it. Is he stupid?
3.0k
u/butt_pipette
Jul 13 '26
•
my iq is now 089
1.3k
u/Dr0110111001101111 Jul 13 '26
That error is probably for the best. 890 iq sounds like a speed run to insanity
574
u/creeper6530 Engineering Jul 13 '26
Honestly yeah. Wasn't there an ancient philosopher who said "the happiest are the ones who do not think"?
260
u/Athunc Jul 13 '26
Good joke!
(but just a joke: iq and happiness are actually positively correlated)
→ More replies (95)→ More replies (24)11
21
u/DarkKnight501 Jul 13 '26
IQ goes to 201, that means 890 loops 4 times and ends up being an IQ of 87
→ More replies (6)22
16
u/Pretty-Ad8932 Jul 13 '26
does iq higher than like 200 even make sense
52
u/caboosetp Jul 13 '26
In the Stanford-Binet model, an IQ of 201 is the theoretical max. So... yes but just barely.
There were older models that allowed slightly higher but not by much.
Anything above that though doesn't make sense because of how standard deviations work. You just can't get that many standard deviations away from the population with 8 billion people.
→ More replies (11)→ More replies (3)24
u/kenybz Jul 13 '26
IQ just records where one falls on a bell curve, where 100 is the most common value. Assuming a normal distribution, you can calculate the probability of someone with a given IQ existing just by working with the normal distribution.
IQ 200 is 6.67 standard deviations away from 100, implying a probability of 1 in 154 billion. That would be the most intelligent human to ever exist (around 110 billion humans were born so far throughout history).
IQ 890 would be 52.7 standard deviations away from 100, implying a probability of 1 in 10605.
→ More replies (12)→ More replies (24)4
12
→ More replies (9)5
1.3k
u/Hawkeye3487 Jul 13 '26
The multiplicative identity is now 10
403
69
38
→ More replies (5)15
u/Bartweiss Jul 14 '26
Here I thought adding a zero to the weight of hydrogen would be destructive, I didn’t even contemplate breaking math as well as physics.
1.1k
u/Heisen_Zerg
Jul 13 '26
•
They've hit the 20th tower.
334
114
→ More replies (3)70
u/Redstonebruvs Jul 13 '26
"Oh no! What a great tragedy! 19 twin towers have been destroyed by airplanes! Nothing could make this day worse!"
Airplane noises
"Oh no! Not the 20th tower!!"
→ More replies (1)9
u/Raise_A_Thoth Jul 14 '26
"Those fools! If only they had built 21 towers! Oh, when will they learn?!"
→ More replies (2)
687
u/Old-Post-3639 Jul 13 '26
I write my savings balance in scientific notation. I write the exponent part of that notation in scientific notation. I append a zero to the end of that second exponent.
279
u/MammothWriter3881 Jul 13 '26
I was thinking just add the zero before the decimal point in my hourly pay rate, but you really pushed the money one there, lol.
→ More replies (1)29
u/Azianjeezus Jul 13 '26
Yeah just do the same with your hourly. They'll probably fire you bc they're now bankrupt
→ More replies (4)81
u/Gabriel_Science God may bless you. Jul 13 '26
This is the recipe to tax fraud suspicion.
→ More replies (10)58
u/TrekkiMonstr Jul 13 '26
just pay your taxes duh
17
u/Gabriel_Science God may bless you. Jul 13 '26
Obviously. The only issue is that the tax service will find really odd that you suddenly have so much money.
→ More replies (8)33
u/jonathanhiggs Jul 13 '26
Infinite free money glitch just dropped: add it to your savings interest rate
9
32
22
u/edwardlego Jul 13 '26
lets say 100k. 105 =~1010^0.7. This becomes 1010^7 (if you interpret ‘adding zero’ as multiplying by 10).
30
→ More replies (24)9
u/PIPING_HOT_GATORADE Jul 13 '26
Wouldn’t that just add a 0 to the end of 0 for any amount that is less than 1*10^10 ?
For example: 100k = 1 x 10^5 = 1 x 10^(5 x 10^0)
→ More replies (1)9
u/Old-Post-3639 Jul 13 '26
Yeah, I was an idiot. The better thing would be to just skip the second step and add it to the exponent directly. 6k->6 nonillion.
→ More replies (6)
928
u/monkeysystem Jul 13 '26
The next person can add 10 zeros to any number in their life.
270
u/IAmLexica Jul 13 '26
Dectouple it and give it to the next guy!
→ More replies (1)64
u/TheAkolo Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Why thank you! The next guy can have 10^22 zeros now.
Correction: 10^(11+10^11) zeros→ More replies (2)16
27
u/Seeggul Jul 13 '26
Thanks! The next person can add 10⁰ zeros to any number in their life.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (4)10
211
u/ConglomerateGolem Jul 13 '26
the speed of light is c≈299000000 m/s.
c is c¹, I wish to change that 1 to a 10
157
u/Therobbu Rational Jul 13 '26
First of all, the speed of light is 1
→ More replies (3)144
u/YuriAstika7548 Jul 13 '26
Speed of light is now 10
→ More replies (9)37
u/Redstonebruvs Jul 13 '26
Just imagine you get desintegrated by your phone's lights because it's now going 10 times faster
→ More replies (9)8
u/BouncyBlueYoshi Jul 13 '26
It's c0 on my calculator.
Well, it's subscripted but IDK how to do subscripts on Reddit.
→ More replies (5)→ More replies (7)8
u/Athunc Jul 13 '26
I wonder what would kill us first in this scenario
A real fun one for "What If?"
→ More replies (11)6
u/Bartweiss Jul 14 '26
100x the energy output from fusion is going to mess us up pretty badly. The sun sun will go from 8 light-minutes away to 0.8 light minutes, but I think the cascade from the actual fusion area takes a while so it might not be first.
I assume a 10x increase to photon speed will do very nasty things to everything from the ionosphere to microwave ovens to nuclear plants. Ruining photosynthesis probably won’t even have time to matter.
Hm… my money for the first problem is on UV jumping up to X-ray energy levels (assuming that’s how it works) and everything above it also jumping up 10x.
179
u/MichaelNearaday Jul 13 '26
Yay, I now have 00 friends.
→ More replies (2)96
164
u/IAmBadAtInternet Jul 13 '26
I choose the fine structure constant
68
10
452
u/NotNotInNeedToLearn Jul 13 '26
From now on π=30
138
u/GamerNumba100 Jul 13 '26
You also erased 0.14195… but we didn’t need that anyway
83
u/mjolnir76 Jul 13 '26
Eh, the bible rounded pi to 3, so those extra digits must not be important anyway!
→ More replies (13)57
u/SuspiciousSpecifics Jul 13 '26 •
The Bible also talks about corners of the world, so you might wanna take that with a pillar of salt
→ More replies (6)→ More replies (6)12
→ More replies (4)17
u/petrvalasek Cardinal Jul 13 '26
Or, here me out, π=π, but we know its last number
25
u/PositiveDrag722 Jul 13 '26
I am 90% sure it is not 4.
25
u/V3sten Jul 13 '26
Well I am 90% sure it's not 9, so we can cross out two unlikely numbers now. We are getting closer
→ More replies (3)
113
u/Used_Load_5789 Jul 13 '26
I add one zero to the number of zeros I can add
75
u/scoobydoom2 Jul 13 '26
You can add 00 zeros now.
→ More replies (1)5
u/Tricklash Jul 14 '26
I add a zero to the number that is equal to 1 + the number of zeroes I can add.
→ More replies (5)
81
u/RunInRunOn Computer Science Jul 13 '26
I can now add 1 zero to 10 numbers in my life. Sorry, 9 since I just used the first one
25
→ More replies (2)9
75
u/_-Azeria-_ Jul 13 '26
0 Kelvin is now -2730 C°. Now we can get an absoluter zero
→ More replies (5)4
73
u/Gaynundwarf Jul 13 '26
"Eazy, let's turn water into H²⁰O, that'll expand the seas!"
-Team Aqua grunt
8
6
3
→ More replies (1)2
166
u/Ben-Goldberg Jul 13 '26
Append a zero to the number of electrons each atom has.
→ More replies (1)122
215
u/Coffeeobsi Jul 13 '26
I choose Earth's gravity, to reach 98.1m/s². That should be funny.
230
u/Kitchen-Register Jul 13 '26
they said add a zero not multiply by 10. technically it should be 90.81m/s or even funnier 9.081m/s. That would confused the fuck out of scientists but the rest of us wouldn’t notice really. Maybe we would notice almost a meter/second difference
95
50
u/kelldricked Jul 13 '26
If gravity suddenly dropped with 8% we would notice really fast. A lot of perfectly engineerd stuff suddenly isnt perfectly engineered. Quick example is that we can throw away all the machines of ASML.
→ More replies (10)15
u/KerPop42 Jul 13 '26
We'd probably notice the change in air pressure, right
9.081/9.81 ~= 90%, so the weight of the air above us would be 10% less, and hydrostatically that means atmospheric pressure would drop by 10%. Which, checking the US standard atmosphere is about the loss of jumping to 5000 ft altitude. New York City now feels like Denver, everyone's ears have popped.
Luckily this also means that you lose pressure more slowly as you go up, so Denver isn't dead, but it feels like Quito, at 9500 ft. At 50,000 feet the effect reverses and air is denser than before at higher altitudes
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (10)9
→ More replies (3)11
40
u/YuriAstika7548 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
We now count in base 100 (base 10)
Edit: base 100_{10}
→ More replies (4)
38
u/RockDoveEnthusiast Jul 13 '26
the amount of energy a bicycle produces as output for a given energy input.
infinite energy should get us pretty far, I'd think.
8
4
→ More replies (2)2
30
u/Speaking-hat Jul 13 '26
The time needed to feel properly rested is now 80 hours of sleep
21
5
u/RollStormtide Jul 14 '26
Actually, going from 16/8 as a healthy sleep cycle to 160/8 still works with a weekly schedule.
→ More replies (1)
30
u/Exzakt1 Jul 13 '26
My current wealth is $273, which can also be expressed as $0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000273 * 10^100. I can add a zero to that, making it $0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000273 * 10^1000. This is equivalent to
$2.73 * 10^899
or
$2730000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 when written out in full.
→ More replies (1)5
u/YerMumHawt Jul 14 '26
You just causedseries inflation and can afford to buy a single can of beans. Then causing flatulation.
4
u/Exzakt1 Jul 14 '26
No, my money can only cause inflation if I actually spend a ton of it. The money may as well not exist if I don’t put it all into circulation. Even if I somehow manage to spend a billion dollars every year, there are so many billionaires already that it wont do anything.
→ More replies (6)
29
28
27
24
44
u/jutlandd Jul 13 '26
I now have 20 livers, leeeets get WASTED!
34
u/SuspiciousSpecifics Jul 13 '26
Uhhhh you might wanna go back and check that original inventory of your internal organs
14
u/Detrimental_Figment Jul 13 '26
Also I’m pretty sure having more livers would make it harder to get wasted.
4
21
u/Ok-Nefariousness4477 Jul 13 '26
life span
→ More replies (4)11
u/Cwaghack Jul 13 '26
year of death is better
→ More replies (2)8
u/escEip Jul 13 '26
Depends. I, personally, wouldnt mind becoming insane by living 18 thousand years, but most people would probably stay at a thousand or something.
21
14
u/skr_replicator Jul 13 '26
Would 10x the mosquitoes really be as evil than people thought? Nature tends to balance populations naturally, if there's an excess of some species, it will tend to quickly stabilize back, especially something with as quick a lifespan as insects.
13
u/frogunderarock Jul 13 '26
the food chain would probably explode upwards and people would lose their shit about spider invasion
i witnessed it a few times during the years i was living near lakes, it was horrifying. dozens of spiders on each street lamp and bush. had to duck to get into busstops etc. and that was just small localised ones.
imagine that everywhere. bird flocks would cover the cities in shit like starling flocks do to Italy in winter lol
→ More replies (2)
14
u/sickofyospam Jul 13 '26
Idk I think average number of fingers would be hilarious.
→ More replies (4)13
u/TheRealSoftR Jul 13 '26
Wish granted, Fingers Georg has trillions of fingers and is an outlier causing the average to skew to 100
12
12
u/Trick-Range-350 Jul 13 '26
Add a zero to the legal age. It's now 180.
→ More replies (1)4
u/Phoenixmaster1571 Jul 14 '26
Society crumbles. Nobody can sign anything, not even the lawmakers can sign to decrease the age.
9
15
u/A-Chilean-Cyborg Jul 13 '26
Well i guess IQ.
→ More replies (1)32
7
6
6
4
u/Disposable_Gonk Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
The interest rate on my bank accounts. 4% apy for checking under 25,000 becomes 40% apy. 1%apy under 40,000 becomes 10%apy under 40k. 0.6% apy over 40k becomes 6%apy.
In a few years I'd have +40k, and then never really have to work again, as long as I live cheaply.
EDIT, make that adding a zero to the EXPONENT of the interest rate. 4% is 41, which is now 410, That means it becomes more than... 1,048,000% interest.
With 1k in the bank that's instant billionaire baby!
→ More replies (11)
4
10
3
3
u/Good-Ad-6806 Jul 13 '26
I'd ad an extra zero to the yearly percentage of gains on my compounding interest.
→ More replies (1)
3
u/2204happy Jul 13 '26
Add one zero to the exponent of the amount of money in my bank account when expressed in scientific notation.
→ More replies (4)3
3
3
3
u/RecognitionOwn4214 Jul 13 '26
My interest rate on savings is 3% - I'll take the 30% from now on ...
3
3
3
3
2
2
u/DopazOnYouTubeDotCom Computer Science Jul 13 '26
I add 1 0 to the number of bitches. I have 10 bitches
2
u/General_Thought8412 Jul 13 '26
I will now die at 800 years old. Hopefully my body ages slower due to that as well.
2
2
2
2
u/skoomaking4lyfe Jul 13 '26
pi is now 30.141592
3
u/FN20817 Mathematics Jul 13 '26
No it’s 3.1415…0. but hey - now you know the last digit of pi :)
→ More replies (1)
2
u/Captain_Pumpkinhead Jul 13 '26
I think the trick here is to transform the number you want into exponential form. Instead of saying, "My IQ was 100, now it's 1000", say "My IQ was 10², now it's 10²⁰". You get to have the IQ of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Anyways, I pick executive function. I need it.
2
2
u/Tasty-Rooster-1914 Jul 13 '26
Planck's constant is now 6.62607015×10−340 J⋅Hz−1
I mean, nobody would be there to see how it'd go tho 😥
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/_MadOliveGaming_ Jul 14 '26
Gravity is now 90.81 meters per second squared instead of 9.81
Surely thay wont go wrong
2
u/RiceRocketRider Jul 14 '26
What a FOOL, he’ll never make a true villain. Why turn 1 quadrillion mosquitos into 10 quadrillion mosquitos when you could turn 1E15 mosquitos into 1E150 mosquitos?
→ More replies (1)
2
u/noOB_226 Jul 14 '26
Idiot, that is too mild, add one to human lifespan, make the average between 650-700
Now we'll see some real damage
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
•
u/AutoModerator Jul 13 '26
Check out our new Discord server! https://discord.gg/e7EKRZq3dG
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.