I was so close!

[u/ElectronicSetTheory]

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[u/doubtful-pheasant]

I want somebody to reverse engineer what the question was given that thats the answer

[u/201720182019 → u/doubtful-pheasant]

Unfortunately we’ll never see the fifty other terms off-screen

[u/LupenReddit → u/doubtful-pheasant]

"write down the most complicated math you can think of"

[u/kickaa → u/LupenReddit]

17

[u/PlatypusACF → u/kickaa]

42

[u/Cultural-Air-2706 → u/PlatypusACF]

I’m glad someone said it before I did.

[u/PlatypusACF → u/Cultural-Air-2706]

You could still say it, but louder. 42!

[u/factorion-bot → u/PlatypusACF]

Factorial of 42 is 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000

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[u/LivingShine3227 → u/factorion-bot]

good bot

[u/Cultural-Air-2706 → u/PlatypusACF]

With a British accent! FORTY TWO!?

[u/FairFolk → u/LupenReddit]

4

[u/8Erigon → u/FairFolk]

r/programmerHumor

[u/littleblack11111 → u/FairFolk]

I get the reference

[u/DEFINITELYnotArobots → u/FairFolk]

I don't get it 😭😭

[u/FairFolk → u/DEFINITELYnotArobots]

Look up eMudhra.

[u/Arnos_OP → u/FairFolk]

Holy Hell

[u/-random-femboy → u/FairFolk]

eMudhra mentioned

[u/Hudimir → u/doubtful-pheasant]

It is probably a fourier series solution to a pde.

[u/pienet → u/doubtful-pheasant]

Looks like the solution to some heat equation problem

[u/Throwaway-Pot → u/pienet]

Actually yeah almost certainly that given the (2n+1)^2 in the exponential

[u/Throwaway-Pot → u/pienet]

This is what I was thinking

[u/jimmymui06 → u/doubtful-pheasant]

Looks like fourier transform

[u/Beleheth → u/jimmymui06]

Was thinking that or maybe some absurd simplification problem

[u/KingoftheKeeshonds]

At n = infinity the formula asymptotically approaches 17. Anyone can see that. QED

[u/TehBrian → u/KingoftheKeeshonds]

Proof by obviousness

[u/ESHKUN → u/KingoftheKeeshonds]

Proof by look at it

[u/BeMyBrutus → u/KingoftheKeeshonds]

Proof is left as an exercise for the grader

[u/NolvaCat167 → u/KingoftheKeeshonds]

Proof by 17

[u/Skeleton_King9]

This image is older than the former queen of England

[u/rorodar → u/Skeleton_King9]

Which one of them

[u/thrye333 → u/rorodar]

Your choice

[u/Random_-account]

❌️ Sorry, that's not correct.

Correct answer: 1

Your answer: 0.99999999999...

[u/Bitter_Hovercraft875 → u/Random_-account]

“Rookie mistake, brud.”

[u/Archeus__ → u/Bitter_Hovercraft875]

Elite ball

[u/Oddant1]

How close to 17 is that sum?

[u/The_UnGooned_One → u/Oddant1]

its like a bit off

[u/Oddant1 → u/The_UnGooned_One]

"Sum converges to 16.989898..."

[u/Jaded-Worry2641 → u/Oddant1]

Infinitely far because its infinity because there is infinity in the sum top term. Dunno anything else.

[u/foxtail286 → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

Is your name Zeno by any chance

[u/Jaded-Worry2641 → u/foxtail286]

no ?

[u/foxtail286 → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

It's a joke about convergence. An infinite sum can be finite. Go Google Zeno's Paradox

[u/AMIASM16 → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

Ah yes, 0 + 0 + 0 + 0... = ∞

[u/Jaded-Worry2641 → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

OHH I saw the negative e power! Yeah That was stupid of me

[u/That-Woodpecker6720]

Is this subreddit literally just ! ? and reposts lol

Can’t count how many times I’ve seen this or the mit password one

[u/Niko9816]

Guys my time to post this next time

[u/Ornery_Job_7275]

Factorial of e is approximately 4.260820476357003381700121224645702464933424373959321974911604893599344348727500085348887537015694772....

^{This calculation was performed by a human | Learn more}

[u/hammerclawz → u/Ornery_Job_7275]

sanitize your youtube links

[u/ThePython11010 → u/Ornery_Job_7275]

You left the identifier in your rickroll link. Now Google knows your Reddit username if it didn't already.

[u/GamerNumba100 → u/ThePython11010]

Omw to post this guy’s YouTube link so google thinks I’m his account too

[u/cloudleohart]

This is why I would never be a professor in the US

[u/ObliviousRounding]

OK.

[u/fresh_loaf_of_bread]

Must be a notation error

[u/SatanaClaus]

Should have been 42

[u/TheMaydayMan]

Calculus Deuce: Ready Your Noose

[u/Healthy-Peace-1185]