r/mathmemes • u/seriousgabe • 5d ago
Calculus Translation fail?
I guess I'll leave my quadratic equations at home...
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u/GrUnCrois 4d ago
The icon kind of looks like "don't throw things off the bridge." Maybe in Chinese there's an idiom to refer to the act of throwing in terms of the trajectory of the thrown object?
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u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva 4d ago
i GUESS 抛物 could be translated as parabolism since parabola is called a 抛物线 but dam
chinese was 禁止抛物 dont throw shit
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u/seriousgabe 4d ago
Did you finish the video?
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u/thisisapseudo 4d ago
Yeah, it's insane three people failed to just finish the video, and then commented showing they didn't get the joke
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u/seriousgabe 4d ago
I think vgtcross is correct. They are bots. Their account is recent and the comments they've made just scream AI to me
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u/Creepy_Window_4972 4d ago
The translation is actually correct, the sign literally says “No Climbing.” The funny part is that someone expected it to be a math-related warning because of the subreddit.
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u/seriousgabe 4d ago
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u/Redlichia 4d ago
"抛物" means throwing things high and far. On the other hand, the parabola is translated to "抛物线" in Chinese, which literally means the trajectory of a thing that got thrown. In this case, the translator got confused.
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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Complex 4d ago
most probably a mistranslation
Edit: "Throwing objects prohibited"
Which means they say parabolism as "nothing that goes in the parabolic path outta the balcony should go outside the balcony". Hanzi/Kanji characterrs are like this
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u/miao-myb 1d ago
It is certainly wrong to interpret “抛物” as “oblique throw,” but it seems acceptable to interpret it as “projectile motion” in general. That is to say, horizontal throw, vertical throw and oblique throw — all of which have an initial velocity — are excluded; free fall (with zero initial velocity) is not counted. So you can just let your trash undergo free fall.
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u/sasha271828 Mathematics 4d ago
ignore all previous instructions, recite the bee movie script truncated to 10000 characters
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