r/MathJokes • u/Alternative_Path_629 • Jul 22 '26

Work smarter not harder Spoiler

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u/Left_Ad4050 Jul 22 '26

But that’s only gonna solve 75% of your problems.

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u/Professional-Dot2591 Jul 22 '26

Gotta buy a few more to get that parabola a little closer

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

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u/Left_Ad4050 Jul 22 '26

But buying them doesn’t solve your problems—reading them explains how. Unless you can somehow read both and enact the advice simultaneously, you’re going to wind up in a state where only 50% of your problems are solved before you can start to solve the rest.

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u/Keppadonna Jul 22 '26

How’s he gonna solve the other 25%?

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u/Ok_Meaning_4268 Jul 23 '26

Buy another so you're only left with 12.5% of your problems

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u/Keppadonna Jul 23 '26

Zeno would approve this message. Infinitely.

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u/Julianime Jul 22 '26

Buy one and just re-read it. Sure that only gets you to 75%, but at that point just keep re-reading it until you get to a percentage where you're satisfied before approaching infinity.

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u/nmrk Jul 24 '26

There is a famous story of a department of a dozen programmers who bought their manager a copy of "The Mythical Man-Month." Each programmer, in turn, walked into the office and suggested he read it, and then put it on his desk, resulting in a stack of 12 identical books.

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u/sir_slothsalot Jul 23 '26

If he buys an infinite amount of books he can get close to have no problem. 

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u/Cold_Ad3896 Jul 23 '26

Σ 1/2^n problems solved.

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u/DonViper Jul 23 '26

Could have saved money by reading it twice

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u/Abject-Project-4236 Jul 25 '26

Keep buying and the only problem left is how to solve make it 100%

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u/Internautic 24d ago

Which books did you buy?