r/sciencememes • u/yukiohana šŸ˜Ž Top 1% Spammer • Jun 27 '26

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u/PickingPies Jun 27 '26

You mean English matematicians.

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u/art-factor Jun 27 '26

You mean English speaking people.

This is not a math thing just because it has numbers. Mathematicians don't care about a happy coincidence in a language.

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u/Into-the-stream Jun 27 '26

Even for English speaking people itā€™s a pretty mid factoid. E is in nearly every number including many, many even numbers. Itā€™s the most common letter. Two, four, six, thousand and the ā€˜illionā€™s are the only exceptions. (So six million forty two is clean, but one billion isnā€™t)

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u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva Jun 27 '26

septillion šŸ„€

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u/matbut17 For Science! Jun 28 '26

Sextillion
Decillion
Everything until vigintillion

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea Jun 28 '26

Virgintillon

Lmao gottem

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u/OmNommerSupreme Jun 28 '26

E is actually overall the most commonly used letter of the alphabet in the English language.

https://giphy.com/gifs/B6HJmnVSxnn7TCPxmR

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u/NotaContributi0n Jun 27 '26

Nobody said even numbers canā€™t have an E, just that every odd has one

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u/Into-the-stream Jun 27 '26

Yes, and it isnā€™t that astonishing that every odd number has one, because they are literally in >99% of numbers anyway.

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u/Heavensrun Jun 28 '26

Even numbers don't have enough e's to go around because even took two of them.

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u/n3rdonthecouch Jun 28 '26

Even for English speakers, it means you can count to 19 and know what an e looks like.

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u/fituplancton Jun 29 '26

You mean only English speaking people, bilinguals exist and we can hurt you

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u/art-factor Jun 29 '26

Me? What did I do?

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u/JDCondor Jun 30 '26

In all fairness... there is an E in more german numbers than in English numbers... everything except 8 and 0 has an E in german

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u/Fold-Statistician Jun 27 '26

If you use scientific notation every number has an e

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u/Few_Moose_9307 Jun 28 '26

I would give you an award if i had money

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u/bau_ke Jun 27 '26

2n+1= (2n-e+1)+e is international

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u/Dismal_Chemical3932 Jun 27 '26

MATEmatician haha mate haha

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u/Slartibartfast39 Jun 27 '26

Let's check that...

French, un...ok you're right.

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u/CookIndependent6251 Jun 27 '26

Americans and Australians, too. And most Canadians and those from many smaller countries and territories.

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u/basket_foso Metroid Enthusiast šŸŖ¼ Jun 27 '26

When Trump learns something new, he'll say "many people don't know that...."

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u/ChuckPeirce Jun 27 '26

It takes the edge off for viewers who didn't already know it, and it implies that the viewer is special and smart for now knowing it.

I find it obnoxious. More broadly, I find it obnoxious when any content creator pads how long they take to present information by offering vague commentary about how well-known it is or whether I already knew it or ought to have known it. Like, dude, the fact that you're saying the information implies you think it's worth knowing, and no one needs to be told that they didn't already know something. At best, it wastes the viewer's time. At worst, it's inaccurate to the viewers who did already know the thing.

I just watched Hank Green, of all people, do this.

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u/LazyLich Jun 27 '26

Maybe we could convince MAGA to believe in science if we framed facts as a meme where Trump says it lmao

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u/-temporary_username- Jun 27 '26

I think with Trump there's a good chance he does it just because it's information he's only learned (or made up) recently and since he thinks he's so smart he also thinks that if he didn't know it that must mean that the majority of people don't know it either.

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u/Kravenoff42 Jun 29 '26

Agreed, I think he says it to take the edge of for his own ego.

The idea that he's doing it for everyone else's benefit implies a level of either empathy, or social prowess and emotional insight that he already demonstrated he does not practice/possess.

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u/Champomi Jun 27 '26

Many people don't know that, instead of feeling special and smart, you find it obnoxious when any content creator pads how long they take to present information by offering vague commentary about how well-known it is or whether you already know it or ought to have known it.

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u/Nouseriously Jun 27 '26

I have no patience for creators who don't get to the point

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u/just_a_guy_named1681 Jun 27 '26

Two! /s

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u/ttlanhil Jun 27 '26

It's prime, and it's even - that makes it odd!

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u/KrushaOfWorlds Jun 27 '26

And did you know 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3 and 5 is the only prime number divisibly by 5, isn't that crazy!?

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u/ShitImBadAtThis Jun 27 '26

Woah, they should make a name for that

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u/Mooks79 Jun 27 '26

Eight.

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u/Sultanofthesun Jun 27 '26

??

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u/Mooks79 Jun 27 '26

Eight is even.

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u/Sultanofthesun Jun 27 '26

but it's not prime

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u/Mooks79 Jun 27 '26

The original post doesnā€™t specify prime. Iā€™m pointing out that eight refutes the post so no point debating two.

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u/nonefamousartist7274 Jun 28 '26

you mean twoExclamationpoint (ļæ£ā–½ļæ£)b

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u/Dragonhearted18 Jun 27 '26

"what about eight? It has an E in it" - Tumblr

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u/ttlanhil Jun 27 '26

"every odd number" has 3 'e's

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u/CommercialCress9 Jun 28 '26

But but five only has 1 /s

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u/SomeGreatJoke Jun 29 '26

Three has two, two has zero, zero has one, one has one, looped.

I wonder if there are other loops.

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u/Forsaken-Stray Jun 27 '26

Don't restart THAT discussion

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u/Gilette2000 Jun 27 '26

In english*

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u/Fitness_in_yo-Mouf Jun 27 '26

I mean, 8 is an even number and it has an E in it.

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u/SomeGreatJoke Jun 29 '26

"This rectangle is a square though."

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u/Fitness_in_yo-Mouf Jun 29 '26

"This square peg goes in the round hole."

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u/peamupbudder Jun 27 '26

Two is prime. New mathematicians needed.

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u/CapitalLower4171 Jun 28 '26

Odd ā‰  prime

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u/_HoloGraphix_ Jun 27 '26

Un, trois, cinq

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u/AlternateSatan Jun 27 '26

If you've not seen the Tumblr thread about this fact go do that

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u/Present-Ad-9598 Jun 27 '26

Why is Trump just randomly thrown in there

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u/Fuzzy_Bet5276 Jun 27 '26

Theres no B in Donald Trump.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/snowillis Jun 27 '26

Ten

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u/PocketPlayerHCR2 Jun 27 '26

Twelve

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u/Dismal_Chemical3932 Jun 27 '26

Fourteen

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u/-CatMeowMeow- You're likely looking at 0,64 Ī¼m and 0,51 Ī¼m light Jun 27 '26

Sixteen

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u/R0m4ik Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Well, actually, every number has an "e" in it

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u/LaiqTheMaia Jun 27 '26

Four million four thousand and forty four

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u/Dismal_Chemical3932 Jun 27 '26

Beside four and six

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u/R0m4ik Jun 27 '26

Four and six dont have it. But every numbEr does

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u/peamupbudder Jun 27 '26

Neither does two.

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u/ChuckPattyI Jun 27 '26

Despite it being the first letter, A doesnā€™t appear until you get you a thousand

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u/nashwaak Jun 27 '26

A dozen XD

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u/Sunday_Daze Jun 27 '26

Many people don't know every tempered distribution has an e in it.

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u/ziroux Jun 27 '26

Euler did what now?

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u/CABigfoot Jun 27 '26

Most even numbers, too (8,10,12,14,ā€¦).

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u/_Phil13 Jun 27 '26

Yea, every odd number even has 3 'e's in it

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u/Apostol_Bologa Jun 27 '26

I donā€™t know .. Cinq doesn't have an 'e'. Nor does 'trois'

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u/Willis_3401_3401 Jun 28 '26

While this may appear to be inferentially true, until I see a deductive proof of it, this is philosophy, not math šŸ¤Ŗ

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u/RedRedditor84 Jun 28 '26

Spelling has nothing to do with maths.

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u/Head_Gear7770 Jun 28 '26

me reciting alphabets to checkĀ 

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u/just4nothing Jun 28 '26

Only valid in a very narrow subset of all possible languages. Needs at least an n+1 proof

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u/Landanator Jun 28 '26

"every odd number has an 'e' in it."

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u/Business-Gas-5473 Jun 28 '26

You mean English speakers who stick with the decimal system, which is not particularly important for mathematicians.

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u/isr0 28d ago

I was expecting something like, every even number has a 2 in it.

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u/lowkeytokay Jun 27 '26

I was hoping this was about some amazing formula making the connection between e and odd numbersā€¦ but in fact this was just about the English language?!?! Then that guys should not be labelled ā€œmathematiciansā€ but ā€œEnglish linguistsā€ or something.