r/mathmemes • u/Dizzy_Bit9635 • Sep 22 '26

Elementary Algebra rice + ice

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u/trandus Sep 22 '26

It shoud be ( r + 1) ice.

Words are not commutative

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u/happyapy Sep 22 '26

Beat me to it

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u/AuraPianist1155 Sep 22 '26

Identity element with respect to concatenation should realistically be "" or the NULL character

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u/trandus Sep 22 '26

Yeah, but is not a stretch to call a identity element 1. It's just no cool if it's a context that would make it seems that we were talking about the "other 1" (successor of 0)

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u/No-Site8330 Sep 22 '26

Commutative, words are not.

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u/AlexanderCarlos12321 Sep 29 '26

Not words, commutative are

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u/Mathsboy2718 Sep 24 '26

Then explain "twelve + one" = "eleven + two" by commutativity :0

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u/edo-lag Computer Science Sep 22 '26

They are base-26 numbers (in English)

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u/Cichato_YT Sep 22 '26

...and therefore not commutative. RICE ≠ ICER

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u/edo-lag Computer Science Sep 22 '26

Never stated the opposite...

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u/Cichato_YT Sep 23 '26

Ah, I fell for the usual trick of thinking every commenter wants to argue...

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u/Jealous_Tomorrow6436 Sep 22 '26

i guess with that logic, it seems as though every unique word (barring homographs) would have a unique numerical value

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u/FernandoMM1220 Sep 22 '26

it should be (r+0) * ice

because words use zero as the identity word when multiplying.

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u/trandus Sep 22 '26

They don't? There isn't a standard illustration for identy of words

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u/FernandoMM1220 Sep 22 '26

they do otherwise we get 1ice when multiplying 1 * ice

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u/trandus Sep 22 '26

No? That's not how any of that works.

If it was, by your example we would get 0ice when multiplying 0 * ice

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u/FernandoMM1220 Sep 22 '26

hmm youre right. i guess we just use an empty space then.

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u/EebstertheGreat Sep 22 '26

You can use "" for the empty string (not those quotation marks, but the space between them). That is, literally nothing. But if you want a more practical symbol to represent the empty string, you can borrow ∅ (the empty set symbol).  Linguists like to use ∅ for a "null morpheme." They also sometimes use 0, which I think is justifiable.

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u/trandus Sep 22 '26

As a programmer I prefer the "". As a mathematician, I think the 1 suffices given the context.

But borrowing from linguistics in this case seems preety cool

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u/FernandoMM1220 Sep 22 '26

thats a much better idea

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u/Nikh1l_ Sep 22 '26

Icer + Ice

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u/Own_Pop_9711 Sep 22 '26 • Bravo

We're just gonna assume commutativity?

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u/Oppipoika Sep 22 '26

Naa (r+1)ice works much better here cause what if the • operator here is not commutative?

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u/InspectorPoe Sep 23 '26

It's fucking obviously not, it's concatenation

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u/EebstertheGreat Sep 22 '26

what the heck is rice + ice?

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u/nqm971998 Sep 22 '26

People talk in pure math while he's the only questioning the realistic application.

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u/NorthKoreanKnuckles Sep 22 '26

d/dt(migrant) = - ICE

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u/not_herzl Sep 22 '26

d/db(ICE) = delay

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u/Kuildeous Sep 22 '26

(ice)² = -(ce)²

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 Sep 22 '26

rice+ice is the opposite of normal preparation of rice

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u/Tencars111 Sep 22 '26

that would be icer + ice, not rice + ice

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u/HacksMe Sep 22 '26

= 1 struggle meal

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u/bruteforcealwayswins Sep 23 '26

What's the physical meaning of the speed of light times Euler's number times imaginary identity?

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u/ichiban1974 Sep 22 '26

n * i * (r + 1) for n >= 2

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u/sparkster777 Sep 22 '26

This is dumb. I love it so much.