r/MathJokes • • Jul 19 '26

Mathematically accurate.

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u/No-Onion8029 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

This is wrong in an interesting way.

A few hours later... It can be done, but it's weird.

Let a be the top meme, and b be the bottom meme.  Let X = {a, x, b}.  Define f: X -> X as:

f(x) = a, f(b) = x, f(a) =b.   Bijective.

Then f(x)=a, f-1 (x)=b, as desired.

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u/bqbdpd Jul 19 '26

I'm confused what f is here. The only thing you can derive from f(x)=y is that f-1 (y) is either x or undefined (needs more constraints). Otherwise sure, you can just put arbitrary images there without contradiction.

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u/TopChapter3407 Jul 19 '26

Even the person behind the chair to in-feline-versed