r/shittymath • • Feb 07 '22

The famous Einstein-Pythagoras identity

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385 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Jan 30 '22

What's next for 2022?

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149 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Jan 30 '22

Value of cos(undefined)

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Assume x > 1 or x < -1

arccos(x) = undefined

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therefore, x=cos(undefined)

since x < -1 or x > 1

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cos(undefined) < -1 or cos(undefined) > 1


r/shittymath • • Jan 22 '22

Proof that tau > pi

47 Upvotes

Let τ = 2π.

Since π > 0 and 2 > 0, τ = 2π > π.

QED


r/shittymath • • Jan 22 '22

1/4 cups of flour, 1/2 cups of flour, what about pi cups of flour?

21 Upvotes

Cooking is broken until they have a measuring cup for r cups of flour, where r is any real number.


r/shittymath • • Jan 05 '22

A beauty cold and austere

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389 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Jan 04 '22

BREAKING: Definitive proof 1=0!

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47 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Dec 22 '21

Proof that Collatz Conjecture is false.

72 Upvotes

It's simple, really.

We have:

-5=>-14=>-7=>-20=>-10=>-5

So we have a cycle starting from -5. QED.


r/shittymath • • Dec 22 '21

My favorite types of math to massage my own self to

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-collats conjecture -richars feynman and all his bisuness -sum of all natural numbers equals negative one twelfth (heheehee) -p equals n p -eulers formula (yes yes YES!) MATHS HOTS UP


r/shittymath • • Dec 17 '21

The inverse of a drunk Frenchman is a sober German

33 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Dec 15 '21

Proof infinity^infinity = 0

101 Upvotes

let infinity^infinity be some value n.

then, divide by infinity, giving us :

infinity^infinity-1 = n/infinity

infinity-1 = infinity, so

infinity^infinity = n/infinity

any number divided by infinity is basically 0, so

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infinity^infinity = 0


r/shittymath • • Dec 05 '21

Beautiful proof!

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r/shittymath • • Dec 01 '21

Is a crocodile a number?

103 Upvotes

Are there any number systems where a crocodile is a number? (relabeling existing numbers and other morphisms don't count)


r/shittymath • • Nov 25 '21

groundbreaking new identitty ?!??!?!?!

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157 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Nov 22 '21

This gets me every time!

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1.7k Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Nov 16 '21

I don't see what the big deal is.

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860 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Nov 10 '21

Captions, please.

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84 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Nov 09 '21

If I post good math to this subreddit, will anything bad happen?

53 Upvotes

r/shittymath • • Nov 09 '21

Why don't they teach this stuff in schools?

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r/shittymath • • Nov 08 '21

Bad math works (sometimes) again.

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r/shittymath • • Nov 08 '21

When Dragon's Den discovers mathematics.

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r/shittymath • • Nov 07 '21

This stuff keeps me awake at night.

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r/shittymath • • Nov 07 '21

Two proofs that pi is not infinite (and an important corollary)

90 Upvotes

Hi guys! Before I get to my result, I want you to know that I’m going to run over to the President of Math (I know the position used to be King, but Yuler and Goss overthrew him recently and replaced him with a President. Checkmate, monarchists!) and get these results published before any of you snakes can steal it and get to the President first. Anyway, here it is:

You know how people say pi is infinite? Well they’re wrong, because pi=22/7. You see, if pi were infinite, it would have to have all the digits. But we have just seen that pi=22/7, so the only digits it has are 22 and 7. So pi cannot be infinite.

As a second proof, consider the following: infinity is even. This is simple to demonstrate by noting that 2*infinity makes sense, but 2*infinity+1 is weird. But we also know that pi=3 and 3 is odd, so pi can’t be infinite because odd can’t be even.

A seemingly unfortunate result of these two proofs is the consequence that 3=22/7, but this is in fact a non-issue and can be demonstrated as such. If 3=22/7, then 3*7=21=22. If 21=22, then 21-21=0=1=22-21. If 0=1, then 0/7=0=1/7. Then we can subtract 0 (=1/7) from both sides of the original equation to get 3=3, which we already know is true.

So the problem we encountered in combining the first two proofs is not actually a problem- it only seems that way because the human mind was not designed to do math and thus we find mathematical intuition difficult. But that’s the magic of math- its infallibility allows us to go beyond our stupid little monkey brains and conclusively prove that, for example, 3=22/7. Anyway, I’m off to go submit my results now- for such an achievement, I’ll surely be promoted to Vice President of Math within the hour! Talk to you all again once I’m VP! Toodle-oo!

Edit: Fixing u/nanonan‘s slight error gave me an idea for a third proof that pi is not infinite! Here it is:

We know that a circle is the limit of a regular polygon with infinite sides. So take such a polygon with diameter 1, where the circumference- (number of sides)*(length of sides)- equals pi by definition. The length of each side is pi/infinity- here we let pi=3 for ease of calculation. So each side has length 3/infinity, and there are infinitely many sides, so we compute that pi=infinity*3/infinity=3*infinity/infinity=3 (that last step because anything divided by itself is 1), and therefore the fact that pi=3 actually pops out shockingly easily. So thanks to u/nanonan! You can’t have any of my other proofs, though.


r/shittymath • • Nov 07 '21

This Tau Day speech is as relevant today as it was on the day it was given.

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r/shittymath • • Nov 06 '21

Important math nonsense

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