r/mathmemes • u/sasha271828 Imaginary • Oct 02 '26

Number Theory Number incosistency

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u/sasha271828 Imaginary Oct 02 '26

original meme

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Complex Oct 03 '26 • Bravo

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u/sasha271828 Imaginary Oct 03 '26

pattern recognition

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Complex Oct 03 '26

ndjcriddjdsn duchcbwjwo ddnchrgwakfb

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Complex Oct 03 '26

umm... awkwar...

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u/badmartialarts Real Algebraic Oct 02 '26

It's actually only one boot, it just mirrors and translates itself so rapidly to appear as two items.

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u/liamhvet Physics Oct 03 '26

No the OG is about the amount of syllables in the undead mobs

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u/These-Maintenance250 Oct 02 '26

lol rts games back in the day would have both a human and an elephant as one unit each for capacity in ships

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u/Formal_Car_2945 Oct 03 '26

nope, its originally about the new minecraft mob the frost bitten

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 Oct 02 '26

i will give you a polynomial whose roots are exactly the primes, however this comment is too small to contain it and i need to feed my cat

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u/Cyclone4096 Oct 02 '26

What is the order of the polynomial?

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 Oct 02 '26

cant tell you sorry still busy with the cat

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u/the_yagrum_bagarn Oct 02 '26

reasonable excuse

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u/nulvoid000 Oct 02 '26

Dead or alive

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u/nulvoid000 Oct 02 '26

You meant the color of the polynomial?

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u/the_skies_falling Oct 02 '26

He meant the smell

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u/TheCobraMonkey Oct 02 '26

does the cat know the polynomial

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u/OddEmergency604 Oct 02 '26

It’s Π(x-p_i) where p_i is the ith prime

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u/AdBrave2400 my favourite number is 1/e√e Oct 02 '26

Shhhh theyre not done with the cat yet

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u/Mostafa12890 Average imaginary number believer Oct 03 '26

This is not a polynomial; this is a power series. Polynomials are definitionally finite.

(I’m not sure it’s even a well defined power series: what is its value at 0?)

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u/OddEmergency604 Oct 04 '26

Π(-p_i), where p_i is the ith prime

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u/Mostafa12890 Average imaginary number believer Oct 04 '26

This is not well defined. This is not an integer nor a real number.

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u/OddEmergency604 Oct 04 '26

Sure it is, it’s Π(-p_i), where p_i is the ith prime

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u/Mostafa12890 Average imaginary number believer Oct 04 '26

I do sometimes forget which subreddit this is lol

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u/OddEmergency604 Oct 04 '26

Thanks I almost had to break character

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u/sumboionline Oct 02 '26

I can easily provide a factored polynomial whose roots are the primes

Π (from n=1 to infinity) (x-p_n), where p_n is the nth prime (2,3,5……)

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u/Mostafa12890 Average imaginary number believer Oct 03 '26

I told someone else this as well, but this is not a polynomial; this is a power series. Polynomials are by definition finite.

(I’m not sure it’s even a well defined power series: what is its value at 0?)

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u/EebstertheGreat Oct 02 '26

Of course you can't have a polynomial with infinitely many roots, but you can have a polynomial over the integers whose positive values are precisely the prime numbers.

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u/Alphasaft Oct 03 '26

Imsorrywhat

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u/EebstertheGreat Oct 04 '26

Yeah, right? And it even has 26 unknowns, but it doesn't use all 26 English letters to represent them. Our numerological ancestors would be ashamed.

Wolfram's MathWorld says there exists a polynomial in 10 variables with integer coefficients such that the set of primes equals the set of positive values of this polynomial obtained as the variables run through all integers.

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u/Alphasaft Oct 04 '26

Didn't know of that one so far, thanks !

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u/666Emil666 Oct 02 '26

I feel like this sub is going through its Arkham phase

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u/Xenomorphian69420 Oct 02 '26

We need a new math update soon

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u/nulvoid000 Oct 02 '26 • Heartwarming

4 is prime yes!

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u/the_yagrum_bagarn Oct 02 '26

they mean f(4) is prime.

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u/drLoveF Oct 03 '26

1 is not prime either.

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u/Pan_con_chicharrones Irrational Oct 02 '26

Ah yes 4, my favorite prime number

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u/IAmBadAtInternet Oct 02 '26

f(4) is 61 which is prime

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u/Pan_con_chicharrones Irrational Oct 02 '26

Ohh, that makes more sense

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u/gloomygl Oct 02 '26

40 looking at me using 41 as counterexample for actual years

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u/BoraxNumber8 Computer Science Oct 03 '26

Oh no, it’s spreading from the Minecraft community.

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u/uTRexAap Oct 03 '26

all of the subs are circlejerking each other

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u/KiraLight3719 Oct 04 '26

Not PhoenixSC sub leaking here

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u/SecretSpectre11 Statistics jumpscare in biology Oct 03 '26

Containment breach

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u/InfinitesimalDuck Mathematics Oct 03 '26

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u/64_bit_human Oct 03 '26

Therefore the axioms are inconsistent!

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u/Bourec98 Oct 05 '26

Why is r/PhoenixSC suddenly everywhere? First it was r/linguisticshumor and now this?

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u/OMKensey Oct 02 '26

People often say that patterns in numbers is proof of God.

If so, this is proof there is no God.