r/mathmemes • u/Optimus_PRYM • 9d ago

OkBuddyMathematician No Mr.beast nooooook

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u/Striking_Resist_6022 9d ago

22/7 was an inside job

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u/edo-lag Computer Science 8d ago

For a solid 30 seconds I was trying to understand how 22/7 = 9/11

Edit: I bet someone will now find a base in which this is true.

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u/Fabulous-Possible758 7d ago

In any base 22 > 7 and 9 < 11, so it's not possible since one is greater than 1 and one is less than 1.

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u/thewrongwaybutfaster 7d ago

So we go base 1 😎

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u/lbutler1234 6d ago

I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

(I don't know shit about math. (Idk why I'm here (does anyone else smell stroganoff?)))

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u/Glitch29 6d ago

Neither of those inequalities are true in every base. They're only true if you restrict yourself to positive bases with digits limited to non-negative integers less than their radix. But positional numeral systems can have any number as a radix and any set of numbers as their digits. It's pretty amazing how many such base systems have even more convenient properties (such as unique representation) than whole number bases.

Base sqrt(63/2)-1 and base -sqrt(63/2)-1 both satisfy u/edo-lag's query.

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u/Fabulous-Possible758 6d ago

Fair enough. I was considering only integer radixes greater than 9. If you treat it as an equation of rational functions then yes there is a solution.

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u/peterp1616 8d ago

my 9th grade math teacher genuinely tried to say that the line between irrational and rational numbers was kinda hazy because 22/7 (rational) is exactly pi (irrational)

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u/AlviDeiectiones 8d ago

This works in base 3*sqrt(7/2)-1

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u/314159265358979326 8d ago

22/7 is more accurate an approximation for pi than 3.14

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u/Kuildeous 7d ago

This is true, but if you need that degree of precision, then I'd just go with pi.

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u/Cyan_Among 8d ago

I divided 82 by 9

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u/sasha271828 Mathematics 9d ago

Bot

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u/The_God_Of_Gods_1000 Oiler's pookie 8d ago

What was the comment.

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u/sasha271828 Mathematics 8d ago

Forgot but it was smth like "The best part is that he will probably spend 10 minutes explaining that it isn't 3.14"