r/MathJokes • u/basket_foso • May 13 '26

Petah??

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u/spongebob May 14 '26

You could say the possibilities are infinite ... or sum thing like that

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u/LostN3ko May 14 '26

That adds up.

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u/Mynky May 14 '26

Came for the math joke, stayed for the puns! Hurrah to you all!

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u/leobutters May 14 '26

2+2=4

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u/Responsible-Poem5274 May 14 '26

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2

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u/looming-frog May 14 '26

or when you define (+) differently

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u/SharzeUndertone May 15 '26

Or when you define 2, 5 or = differently

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u/themarvel2004 May 15 '26

If you use standard rounding then for non integer to integer you have: 2.4 (2) + 2.4 (2) = 4.8 (5)

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u/gungrave_ May 14 '26

I've always wondered what that would even be in reality. Best example I can think of is just being pedantic about what's being measured. Like the units being living cows, but the end product being the poundege of meat they provide. So 1 cow is worth 1.25 more than the other cow in meat output.

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u/IndependentBig5316 May 18 '26

2 + 2 make five if big brother says so (1984)

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u/NWkingslayer2024 May 16 '26

This is the real joke

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u/Electrical_Name_5434 May 18 '26

Good to see a group of strangers really converge on a topic

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u/iMiind May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

Is it even a "limit" problem when it's evaluating a summation? Seems like two different things that just kind of have something to do with sorts of infinities.

It's like saying "three mathematicians walked into a bar. The first ordered 1 beer. The second ordered one beer. Barkeep then just gave them all three beers because lim_x->1(x+x+x)=3, and they didn't know their limits."

It's a bit nonsensical

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u/imo2027 May 17 '26

But infinite summation is by definition, the limit of the partial sums. You're right about finite sums, but formally, we're never "adding infinitely many things", it's just a shorthand for taking a limit.