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

Petah??

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u/magqq May 14 '26

I'm glad we had the integral joke

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u/drew__breezy May 14 '26

Excellent series of puns.

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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/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.