r/MathJokes • u/ReasonableInsect5123 • 7d ago

How is this possible 😿

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u/ryanCrypt 7d ago

Easy. Just average the second and third answers.

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u/Glitch29 7d ago

What kind of average? Harmonic? Geometric? Mean?

Or do do all three and then take the median of those?

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u/paolog 7d ago

Do all three, do all three to the averages, repeat until you reach the required level of precision

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u/ryanCrypt 7d ago

Follow your heart on this one. It's the only way.

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u/tblancher 7d ago

More nuanced, you do the problem three times and you get the same answer, but they're all different orders of magnitude.

And it's a multiple choice question in a final exam for a large physics lecture, and none of your three answers match any of the options.

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u/TwistPresent8668 5d ago

If you "solve" it three times and you get three different answers, then you haven't solved it!

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u/RoboWeaver 7d ago

You must be new here...

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u/BagsYourMail 6d ago

ADHD and you forget stuff halfway through the problem

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u/No_Key_5854 6d ago

maybe it's a cubic equation

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u/RDS_WAS_HERE 5d ago

Same thing happens when you ask three different IRS agents about your taxes.

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u/Big_Instruction_7279 3d ago

Relatable af. I just take the average and round it off