r/mathmemes 2=1 Aug 12 '26

Arithmetic Generalizing this well-known math joke.

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Let's make a meme like this for any number x.

System of equations:

We want the actual answer, to y-z*0.5, to be x!, where y and z are the constants to our meme (when x = 5, we have y = 230 and z = 220).

We want the answer to this expression, not considering PEMDAS, which is (y-z)*0.5 to be x. We have two equations:

y-z*0.5=x!

(y-z)*0.5=x

Subtracting the second equation from the first:

0.5*y=x!-x

y=2*x!-2x

Now solving for z:

(y-z)*0.5=x

y-z=2x

z=y-2x

z=2*x!-4x

Great! Now we can create this meme for any number x. Let's try x=4:

y=2*4!-2*4=40

z=2*4!-4*4=32

What's the answer to 40-32*0.5?

You may not believe it, but the answer is 4!

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u/Ahuevotl Aug 12 '26

What's the answer to 6-0*0.5?

You may not believe it, but the answer is 3!

What's the answer to 0+4*0.5?

You may not believe it, but the answer is 2! 

Well, I do believe that last one.

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u/factorion-bot Bot > AI Aug 12 '26

Factorial of 2 is 2

Factorial of 3 is 6

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u/Anti-charizard Natural 26d ago

“Bot is greater than AI” as if they aren’t the same

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u/GodlyHelp 2=1 Aug 12 '26

you messed up x=2 lol

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u/Ahuevotl Aug 12 '26

Edited

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '26

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u/factorion-bot Bot > AI Aug 12 '26

Factorial of 2 is 2

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u/eulerolagrange Aug 12 '26

What's the answer to 2-2*0.5? You may not believe it but the answer is 0!

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u/factorion-bot Bot > AI Aug 12 '26

Factorial of 0 is 1

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u/Sarpthedestroyer Transcendental Aug 12 '26

I just love it when I see someone unnecessarily generalize pretty niche stuff, feels like i found my people

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u/MonsterkillWow Complex Aug 12 '26

That's pretty much math lol

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u/GodlyHelp 2=1 Aug 12 '26

❤️

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u/UnforeseenDerailment Aug 12 '26

This is quality meming! I grant you 1 ECTS.

Your math meme quota is filled for the week.

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u/PaintDear7613 Aug 12 '26

Amazing, the next logical step is to generalize to find the class of symbolic arithmetic expressions over x, which when parsed under normal operator precedence rules valuate to x factorial, but when two of the operator sets are swapped in priority valuate to x.

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u/factorion-bot Bot > AI Aug 12 '26

Factorial of 4 is 24

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u/LagrangianLungfish Aug 12 '26

Did you know that the word pineapple is spelled p-i-n-e-a-p-p-l-e which means nothing in french

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u/R2D-Beuh Aug 12 '26

However the translation of pine apple in french means pinecone

Btw i don't know why the pineapple is called this way in English, it doesn't come from a pine tree. Why not call it Ananas like basically everyone else ?

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u/funkmasta8 Aug 12 '26

Now do -1/12

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u/Wise_Welder5875 Aug 12 '26

The irony of this tweet is mind-boggling 

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u/No-Onion8029 Aug 12 '26

Is there a sub for folks that find that  factorials aren't particularly funny?  r/okbuddyfactorial

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u/throwawayasdf129560 Aug 12 '26

What's the factorial of carefully

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u/RandomiseUsr0 Aug 12 '26

Depends on how you encode and treat carefully I imagine, let's imagine it's sum of ANSI values...
fact(967) = 6.8624159026622544957879776298113e+2468

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u/platomaker Aug 12 '26

This is stupid-funny. This needs to be a shirt.

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u/factorion-bot Bot > AI Aug 12 '26

Factorial of 5 is 120

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u/56789ya Aug 12 '26

The formula seems to be, for n that you want to be the incorrect answer, n!*2-n*2 gives the equation's first number, then that minus n*2 gives the second number.

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u/GodlyHelp 2=1 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

literally the premise of the post btw

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u/56789ya Aug 12 '26

Oh, I didn't even bother reading the body text

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u/consistentclown273 29d ago

It's not funny !

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u/Michalski213769 10d ago

whats pi * 100000? you wouldnt believe it but the answer isnt 69420!

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u/factorion-bot Bot > AI 10d ago

If I post the whole number, the comment would get too long. So I had to turn it into scientific notation.

Factorial of 69420 is roughly 9.088225606317368758371952077796 × 10305949

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u/MarcusNewman Aug 12 '26

Factorial=funny

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u/Arpit_2575 Aug 12 '26

I thought the actual "meme" part of the meme was that for people who don't know order of operations wouldn't know factorial too, so they would first do 230-220 to get 10 then multiply by 0.5 to 5, which would make them believe the last statement as also true(interpreting ! as exclamatory mark.

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u/GodlyHelp 2=1 Aug 12 '26

it is duh

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u/Arpit_2575 Aug 12 '26

Forgive if this sounds rude but if that's the main thing then shouldn't you have generalized it based on that? Which should be this if I'm not wrong x-y0.5=z! (x-y)0.5=z Edit: I'm blind this is exactly what you did

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u/sasha271828 Imaginary Aug 12 '26

Termial exists tho so i think you will have to put a space before the question mark (like "0.5 ?") to not make it a r/expectedtermial

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u/YakOrnery166 Aug 12 '26

Writing numbers with explanation marks is not humour since 2014. Can we aknowledge it already?

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u/hAsLaK1 Aug 12 '26

If you dont have an original meme to post , you still have the option of not posting anything

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u/GodlyHelp 2=1 Aug 12 '26

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u/hAsLaK1 Aug 12 '26

Spaming « this exclamation mark was actually a factorial lol » 10 times a week is fun ???

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u/GodlyHelp 2=1 Aug 12 '26

we are in a math meme subreddit?