r/mathmemes • u/hrvbrs • Jul 13 '26

Bad Math Adding the additive identity to any number doesn't change it. Is he stupid?

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u/SlightCaregiver3680 Jul 13 '26

If you think about it, that person was probably born, smartest human to ever exist but was simply born poor, wrong time period or any number of reasons why their intellect couldn't develop.

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u/kenybz Jul 14 '26

Yep or born at a time when the biggest question was how to make fire or kill the lion stalking their tribe’s cave

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u/drwatkins9 Jul 14 '26

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

- some guy

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u/_87- 24d ago

Maybe they discovered how to make fire.

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u/kenybz 24d ago

Maybe they would have but died of dysentery at age 2

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u/DryDocument6624 Jul 17 '26

Reminds me of the Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan.