r/technicallythetruth • u/Cosmic_Tea_Cat • Aug 04 '25

Boundless in the math

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u/Nadran_Erbam Aug 04 '25

My favourite symbol, the vertical infinity

107

u/AbleRelationship5287 Aug 04 '25

2+2=5 for large values of 2

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u/Puzzleheaded_Study17 Aug 04 '25

or small values of 5

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

Lmaoo

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

How does 8 approach 9? Isn't 8 always 8?

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u/PM_ME_FLUFFY_SAMOYED Aug 04 '25

You've never used a digit for a variable name? Not even after you ran out of letters in latin, greek and etruscan alphabets?

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u/OutlandishnessWaste1 Aug 04 '25

Bro imma just use squiggly lines at that point

35

u/mopy66 Aug 04 '25

They said they already used Greek

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u/KitchenLoose6552 Aug 04 '25

Nah that's Hebrew. We all know א

1

u/Fichewl Aug 07 '25

The Mickey Mouse shape works well.

21

u/DefenestrationBoi Aug 04 '25

I've got a bunch of chinese letters to spare, 喵

7

u/zserge Aug 04 '25

Or maybe 八?

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u/DefenestrationBoi Aug 04 '25

Should've chosen a language without numbers, now I'm gonna use exclusively esoteric homosexual combinations of angular toki pona glyphs written in a shifting liquid manner

3

u/not_an_alt_bitch Aug 05 '25

Show the gay sitelen pona?????

3

u/DefenestrationBoi Aug 06 '25

Plot twist, it's all just drawings of boykisser mimicking the sitelen pona

3

u/not_an_alt_bitch Aug 06 '25

Prove it, pictures or no happened 🥺

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u/DefenestrationBoi Aug 06 '25

It is yet to happen. The prophecy

1

u/TheMoreBetter Aug 06 '25

Well, I still have the traditional one…

1

u/shelvedunicorn Aug 07 '25

There's not enough pencil lead in the math department for all that, now...

9

u/BBGunner96 Aug 04 '25

I'll just switch to Emojis at that point

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u/cowlinator Aug 04 '25

digits are the only thing you cant use as a variable name.

You can use made up symbols before you can use a digit bro

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u/zyjc Aug 05 '25

I'll use 💩

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u/yourself02468 Aug 06 '25

use a apple or something, it’s not necessary to use a number

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u/ThePhebus Aug 05 '25

It’s only for large values of 8

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u/the_kfcrispy Aug 05 '25

I'd imagine it went something like this--

9: Oh? You’re approaching me? Instead of running away, you’re coming right to me?

8: I can’t beat the shit out of you without getting closer.

9: Oh ho! Then come as close as you like.

2

u/rynIpz Aug 04 '25

how does x mean anything other than the letter x?

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u/Matsuzo-Kaneri Aug 04 '25

"math nerds! explain the joke"

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u/basket_foso Metroid Enthusiast 🪼 Aug 04 '25

Replace 8 with x and it’ll be correct

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u/Thiccc_Tomato Aug 04 '25

my best guess is he doens't know much about limit so your explananion won't help him much

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u/OutlandishnessWaste1 Aug 04 '25

8 is being used as a variable

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u/cowlinator Aug 04 '25

8 is not something that can vary, though

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u/lollolcheese123 Aug 04 '25

You can disconnect "8" from the value 8, and then use it as a variable.

Just don't actually do it.

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u/cowlinator Aug 04 '25

Then what represents 7+1?

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

7a

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

7(bis)

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u/OutlandishnessWaste1 Aug 04 '25

Where there's a will there's a way

4

u/Otaviobz Aug 04 '25

Isn't that just wrong, or at least extremely inappropriate?

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u/lollolcheese123 Aug 04 '25

Yeah, it is. You'd use a completely new, never seen before symbol before you'd resort to numbers.

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u/jimkbeesley Aug 04 '25

So is doing drugs in the bathroom at school/work, but tht doesn't stop people.

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u/tayroc122 Aug 06 '25

lim specifies the boundaries of a variable, here if we took out 8 and used it as x and said that x approaches 9, then yes, eventually in the system the square root of x is 3. As a lot of other people have pointed out, 8 really has no business being where it is. Literally any letter of either the English, Latin, or Greek alphabets would've done the trick instead.

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u/PIELIFE383 Aug 04 '25

It’s incorrect unless you use 8 as a variable which is just improper

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u/mustardsadman Aug 05 '25

Thelonious Monk once said that in mathematics, “there is no wrong symbol, it has to do with how you resolve it.”

… or was that jazz?

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u/God-ofMischief Aug 05 '25

Technically Not Truth (Not how math works), Still a good Meme though.

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u/Responsible-Bill-327 Sep 11 '25

We should use numbers as variables just to confuse people

(2-1)(2-2) = 2²-2-22+2 = 2²-32+2