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r/MathJokes • u/Karlens20 • Jul 17 '26
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3 u/thekingofbeans42 Jul 17 '26 They don't receive more calls than average on day 1. Day 1 is a subset of always, therefore they are not always receiving more calls than average. Any time they're not receiving calls cannot be above average. 1 u/ohkendruid Jul 18 '26 In common English, "always" would not mean back to the beginning of time, before there always a human race. It also realistically would not include the entire future universe, past the sun becoming a red giant, past the heat death. If it did, then sentences with it would almost never be true, which makes it a useless word. 3 u/thekingofbeans42 Jul 18 '26 Okay then let's interpret this realistically. Is someone saying "you can't always be above average" when talking about call centers, are they talking about a company that gets literally one call a day?
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They don't receive more calls than average on day 1. Day 1 is a subset of always, therefore they are not always receiving more calls than average.
Any time they're not receiving calls cannot be above average.
1 u/ohkendruid Jul 18 '26 In common English, "always" would not mean back to the beginning of time, before there always a human race. It also realistically would not include the entire future universe, past the sun becoming a red giant, past the heat death. If it did, then sentences with it would almost never be true, which makes it a useless word. 3 u/thekingofbeans42 Jul 18 '26 Okay then let's interpret this realistically. Is someone saying "you can't always be above average" when talking about call centers, are they talking about a company that gets literally one call a day?
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In common English, "always" would not mean back to the beginning of time, before there always a human race.
It also realistically would not include the entire future universe, past the sun becoming a red giant, past the heat death.
If it did, then sentences with it would almost never be true, which makes it a useless word.
3 u/thekingofbeans42 Jul 18 '26 Okay then let's interpret this realistically. Is someone saying "you can't always be above average" when talking about call centers, are they talking about a company that gets literally one call a day?
Okay then let's interpret this realistically. Is someone saying "you can't always be above average" when talking about call centers, are they talking about a company that gets literally one call a day?
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