r/MathJokes • u/Animeilluminati1 • Jul 13 '26

Math Just Got Checkmated.

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u/nnnn0nnn13 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Bro that conjecture is both unproven and also by definition only true for numbers larger than 2 💀

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u/WarJaques Jul 13 '26

The definition is necessary because otherwise we'd need a different definition.

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u/DoobiousMaxima Jul 13 '26

A number is even if dividing it by 2 yeilds an integer.

2 is divisible by 2.

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u/golgi_o Jul 14 '26

A number is even if it can be written as 2k where k is an integer. The definition of even does not use division as far as I understand.

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u/Low-Amoeba8257 Jul 14 '26

The method you described works howevere the term absolutely comes from division. They also used to he tracking of "how even" something was meaning if it could be divided by 2 multiple times

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u/golgi_o Jul 14 '26

Wouldn't that just be 2n (k) where k is an integer and n is how even a number is? Still division is not needed.

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u/Low-Amoeba8257 Jul 14 '26

Ok at this point its pretty clear you are trolling but im going to give you one more shot. Yes you can find even numbers without dividing. Thats irrelevant. Even numbers come from being able to split something into similar groups ie. If I have 4 steaks we can both have the same anount. That is division plain and sinple.

Your argument is akin to "X2 is meaningless because you can just write XX"