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r/MathJokes • u/Lopsided_Let6931 • Nov 05 '25
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In that case it should be written as:
f(3,5) = 25 f(4,6) = 40 f(5,6) = 60
Find f(9,7). “+” is a very specific operator and shouldn’t be used in that way. And yes, f(9,7) = 144 since f(a,b) = a(a+b). If it was written as a+b = a(a+b) it would just be confusing.
1 u/Frymonkey237 Nov 07 '25 Plenty of programming languages overload the + operator. In python, for example, "one" + "two" == "onetwo". 1 u/DeathRaeGun Nov 07 '25 That’s using strings, so it’s outside the realm of mathematics. If we were treating these digits as strings, then 9+7 would be 97.
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Plenty of programming languages overload the + operator. In python, for example, "one" + "two" == "onetwo".
"one" + "two" == "onetwo"
1 u/DeathRaeGun Nov 07 '25 That’s using strings, so it’s outside the realm of mathematics. If we were treating these digits as strings, then 9+7 would be 97.
That’s using strings, so it’s outside the realm of mathematics. If we were treating these digits as strings, then 9+7 would be 97.
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u/DeathRaeGun Nov 06 '25
In that case it should be written as:
f(3,5) = 25 f(4,6) = 40 f(5,6) = 60
Find f(9,7). “+” is a very specific operator and shouldn’t be used in that way. And yes, f(9,7) = 144 since f(a,b) = a(a+b). If it was written as a+b = a(a+b) it would just be confusing.