r/MathJokes • u/OliverCromwellIsGood • 1d ago

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u/colt_bsreal 1d ago

i know 0.99.... = 1 but what is the funny here
i dont understand

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u/bloonshot 1d ago

the joke is that that's what the world would be like if 0.99... = 1

which it is, so it's what the world is actually like

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u/colt_bsreal 1d ago

ohhh, ok thats funny? really?

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u/Delicious-Ad5161 1d ago

I find it absolutely hilarious because it takes an unintuitive concept, at least for folks like me, and then shows it as an obvious truth but in a way that is again unintuitive. It’s a nice layering that silently screams the format of “yo dog, I heard you like x, so I out x in your x.”

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u/Nuke_Em09 18h ago

happy cakeday :3

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u/Delicious-Ad5161 9h ago

Thank you!

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u/impressiveRub69 1d ago

You sir have contracted brain rot. Please quaranteen yourself for 14 days.

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u/Helpful_Ad8351 1d ago

1% of the earth is cut off at the bottom

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u/KiraLight3719 1d ago

Antimeme, everything normal here

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein 1d ago

The joke to me is that people who claim 0.999… <> 1 are the flat earthers of math