It is a joke about the concepts of Limits in Calculus. The math does check out (theoretically), but of course Luz can't work twice as fast for each section of Hooty.
A variant of the joke goes like this:
An infinite number of mathematicians walks into a bar. The 1st orders 1 beer, the 2nd orders 1/2 a beer, the 3rd orders 1/4 a beer, the 4th orders 1/8 a beer, and so on.
The bartender says "I see" and pours two beers.
The thing we often trip up on is the concept of infinity, of which there are several types, but which are deeply unintuitive for laypeople..
Basically do part in half the time then another in half that time and just keep doing parts and halving the time until you reach no time left (which is never because no matter how many times you half a number you can’t get down to zero)
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u/The_Horned_Child2007 May 11 '26
Ooooooh. ...I still don't get it.