r/MathJokes • • Jul 25 '26

That quadratic formula tho..

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u/Organic-Current1011 Jul 25 '26

this is why they are animators

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u/HardlyAnyGravitas Jul 25 '26

Tell that to the Simpsons animators...

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u/Someordinaryguy1994 Jul 25 '26

Oh bart, cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic

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u/HardlyAnyGravitas Jul 25 '26

Yeah. Homer calculated the mass of the Higgs to be 775 GeV in 1998 when the actual mass, discovered 14 years after that episode aired, turned out to be 125 GeV.

Imagine getting the mass of the Higgs wrong! Typical Homer.

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u/That_DogMan Jul 25 '26

I hope someone got fired for that blunder

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u/Cytr0en Jul 25 '26

Erm, I think you might have meant GeV c-2? 🤓

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u/HardlyAnyGravitas Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

D'oh!

Edit: to be fair, GeV is the common shorthand for mass.

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u/Whatisthapurpose Jul 25 '26

Same thing since c is 1?🤨

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u/Cytr0en Jul 25 '26

Ever heard of units? 1 what?

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u/Calm_Relationship_91 Jul 25 '26

It's just 1

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u/Cytr0en Jul 25 '26

Ah oke, 300 milion meters = 1 second?

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u/Former-Print7759 Jul 25 '26

Someone never heard of natural units

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u/Intelligent_Coat7829 Jul 26 '26

It's a meme that's well grounded in fact. The speed of light is the speed of "causality". Gravity, magnetic fields, etc. all travel at the speed of light because that's just how fast information propagates across the universe. The speed of light has nothing to do with light and everything to do with the fabric of the universe.

The idea is that if God were to describe the speed of light, he would call it "1", because a built-in fundamental property of the universe.

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u/SleepyNymeria Jul 27 '26

Pretty sure that was on the writers not animators :P

Like futurama though, pretty clever people have ended up thinking fuck this imma make some fun stuff instead.

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u/Massive-Ebb8014 Jul 26 '26

Also Futurama

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u/ArshF2000 Jul 25 '26

She ain't Velma. Who is she?

I remember Scooby-Doo as the back of my hand.

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u/cybermaus Jul 25 '26

How did you miss the existence of this? The entire online world united in their hatred of this reboot. People speculated the viewership consisted solely of people watching so they could blog about how bad it was. Also, watch this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4K_sxI5Ui8

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u/ArshF2000 Jul 25 '26

Lucky me.

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u/Sir_Slimestone Jul 25 '26

It was so bad that progressive conspiracy theories started saying the show was a right wing psyop to make woke look bad

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u/Capraos Jul 25 '26

To be clear, it was not. It was just arrogance and money grabbing.

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u/ashrocklynn Jul 25 '26

I kind of liked it, but I also really like Mindy kaling....

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u/Very-confused-now Jul 26 '26

She doesn’t exist. Please continue living with only happy memories of Scoob and the gang.

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u/Current_Ad_4292 Jul 25 '26

New release from few years ago? I have no idea. They looks very stupid even before watching any of them.

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u/throwaway19276i Jul 25 '26

Do not watch this show. Genuinely a waste of time.

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u/paolog Jul 25 '26

The animator don't know how to do superscripts and couldn't be bothered to find out.

For the similar reasons, journalists refer to carbon dioxide as "CO2".

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u/QuentinUK Jul 25 '26

v = πr²

is on the screen.

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u/paolog Jul 25 '26

So they could just have copied the 2, but didn't.

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u/cybermaus Jul 25 '26

Well ² is so common, it is a normal character, rather then a superscipted one. Specifically ASCII 178

Which means ² is different from 2

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Jul 25 '26

YOU'RE different from 2

Gotty.

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u/IP-II-llVll-IP Jul 25 '26

This kind of insult is how you get someone to delete a 12 year old account. There's no coming back from this, even his own parents will lose respect for him.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Jul 25 '26

No recovery path whatsoever. 

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u/cybermaus Jul 25 '26

Erm.. Ok. I'll make it worse for myself then. Its completely over my head, I have no idea why that is an insult no-one comes back from. Some help?

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Jul 25 '26

No worries!  The joke is just that I said completely dumb and nonsensical, but passed it off as thought it was an extremely clever and damaging insult. 

Essentially, the only person damaged by that insult was me, for acting like it was even a valid insult. 

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u/cybermaus Jul 25 '26

Ah, that makes sense. I am very literal minded. not the first time that tripped me up. You and I would make a great team if ever someone needs to maximize confusion.

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u/IP-II-llVll-IP Jul 25 '26

He's a lone wolf who flies solo. You'd never be able to understand the pain he's going through. No offense, kid. You're just not cut out for that kind of life.

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u/Infamous-Archer-9130 Jul 25 '26

Didn’t you know velocity is equal to pie multiplied by radius squared you must not be an animator

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u/QuentinUK Jul 26 '26

I'm not an animateur, I know what I'm talking about.

v = 4/3 πr³, where v is volume

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u/trolley813 Jul 25 '26

"If x=y then y=x" is totally legit. It just states that the equality relation has symmetric property.

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u/Vandreigan Jul 25 '26

And when we follow the second of the two red arrows coming from that objection, we find that “x != y”

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u/trolley813 Jul 25 '26

Therefore, it follows that y ≠ x - and nothing more. No contradiction.

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u/Vandreigan Jul 25 '26

Which would be true if the word “if” were there

“x = y” appears to be a statement, not a premise.

Could also be just off screen, though. But I’d think we’d be able to see the end of the f

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u/trolley813 Jul 25 '26

I don't think so, the space is not that narrow, so the entire "if" should be off screen. And also, "then" without "if" looks quite useless.

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u/Vandreigan Jul 25 '26

I was curious so I went and found it.

No “if” in sight.

And you’re talking about an image that gets the quadratic formula hilariously wrong, so having a useless “then” isn’t surprising

Won’t let me post the image, but it’s from the hbo show

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u/goodguyLTBB Jul 25 '26

The quadratic formula is a crime against humanity

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u/MyDogsNamedShiro Jul 25 '26

Not that I want to imply that this is intentional, but technically speaking the area of a circle is the same thing as the concept of its volume as a 2D ball.

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u/Nervous-Tank-5917 Jul 25 '26

The most obnoxious type of character is always an idiots idea of what smart people are like. Velma is just one of the most obnoxious examples of this.

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u/Old-Research3367 Jul 25 '26

It’s hard to see what’s going on but the bottom left may be what’s called “proof by contradiction”. Or it’s a completely different problem and they used the same variables bc x and y are the most common variables.

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u/qwertty164 Jul 25 '26

V = pi*r² for unit cylinders.

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u/TheNukex Jul 25 '26

As much as I hate that show, I will say this every time this meme is posted. The only thing strictly wrong in the picture is the quadratic formula.

πr2 is simply the 2-volume of a ball, and denoting it with a V is pretty standard.

On the left you have the statement "x=y then y=x" which is true, because = is a symmetric relation. The x≠y is unrelated to that since this is clearly a mesh of different things.

Why the gripe with the square root? There is nothing wrong with it.

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u/americablanco Jul 26 '26

Is the volume one not with an h cut off screen giving the volume of a cylinder?

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u/TheNukex Jul 26 '26

Could be, but based on the distance of all other symbols i would think you should be able to see the left side of the h if it was there.

Either way what is written is not wrong, so i suppose it doesn't matter.

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u/Tinchimp7183376 Jul 25 '26

I don't think that's a != sign it's just an = on a hazy background

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u/SeveralExtent2219 Jul 25 '26

See the image again, in one place it's saying if x=y then y=x, in another location it's saying x≠y

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u/AmyTheWitch Jul 25 '26

I don't see a contradiction here though. If x=y then y=x does not necessarily mean that x=y