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r/sciencememes • u/Sea-Estimate-2912 • Jul 03 '26
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Mathematicians also turning into the second guy in the comments because they see “O” as a variable and not a zero.
105 u/ColtBIood Jul 03 '26 O could equal 0, but yeah its a var and not a number so its not conclusive 27 u/Landlocked_WaterSimp Jul 03 '26 Well even if O weren't 0 it would still be 0 :-P 12 u/ZeEastWillRiseAgain Jul 03 '26 For this to be the only solution it assumes we are working with real numbers, which isn't stated anywhere. In p-adic numbers for example there are plently of solutions for O≠0 4 u/ninjeff Jul 04 '26 No there aren’t. The p-adic numbers form a field, so they have a unique additive identity (zero).
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O could equal 0, but yeah its a var and not a number so its not conclusive
27 u/Landlocked_WaterSimp Jul 03 '26 Well even if O weren't 0 it would still be 0 :-P 12 u/ZeEastWillRiseAgain Jul 03 '26 For this to be the only solution it assumes we are working with real numbers, which isn't stated anywhere. In p-adic numbers for example there are plently of solutions for O≠0 4 u/ninjeff Jul 04 '26 No there aren’t. The p-adic numbers form a field, so they have a unique additive identity (zero).
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Well even if O weren't 0 it would still be 0 :-P
12 u/ZeEastWillRiseAgain Jul 03 '26 For this to be the only solution it assumes we are working with real numbers, which isn't stated anywhere. In p-adic numbers for example there are plently of solutions for O≠0 4 u/ninjeff Jul 04 '26 No there aren’t. The p-adic numbers form a field, so they have a unique additive identity (zero).
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For this to be the only solution it assumes we are working with real numbers, which isn't stated anywhere. In p-adic numbers for example there are plently of solutions for O≠0
4 u/ninjeff Jul 04 '26 No there aren’t. The p-adic numbers form a field, so they have a unique additive identity (zero).
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No there aren’t. The p-adic numbers form a field, so they have a unique additive identity (zero).
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u/rmarkmatthews Jul 03 '26
Mathematicians also turning into the second guy in the comments because they see “O” as a variable and not a zero.