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  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMath Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone<3
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    2 days ago

    Yes, the comic assumes people struggle with the order of operations. It does not however assume that of the reader. It is intended to make the reader assume that the character struggles with it and it’s enthusiastically wrong rather than that they’re using the ! operator.

    At worst the comic is trying to be engagement bait and trick those people into commenting some variation of “Wrong, the correct answer is 24. You always do the division first,” to which someone can reveal to them that they were bamboozled because “4!” is in fact 24.

    Edit: and if they catch that it’s like “Haha, you almost tricked me with that sneaky factorial. Well played.” That’s where the humor comes from. Whether or not it manages to trick you into thinking that they did it wrong.


  • What are you even talking about? In what world is the assumption supposed to be that the actual answer is 4 and that 24 is some kind of secret hidden answer?

    The assumption being made by the comic is that the reader knows the order of operations and will think that the person answering 4! is the one that did it wrong and mistakes the ! operator for them being enthusiastically wrong.


  • The answer in the comic is correct. It’s just written in a way to make you as the reader think he’s got it wrong for a second.

    The ! operator in mathematics indicates a function called a factorial. Four factorial, or 4! = 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24. Which is the correct answer if you follow the proper order of operations.


  • No no, they’re saying “4!” literally is the answer. The joke is that you say 4!, the other person who presumably knows the order of operations assumes you got it wrong and did 25 - 5 = 20 ÷ 5 = 4 when really you do division first so the real answer is 24. The punchline is that “4!” is how you write 4 factorial or 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 which is 24.




  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneManul Rule
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    11 days ago

    6 as well. That’s the exact face I’m making right now because of this migraine that’s been going on for like 4 days now because the damn barometric pressure has been an absolute roller coaster and my head dislikes it. Feels like someone’s trying to cave my skull in with a sledge hammer just above my right eye.



  • She literally got mad because they only had the one 5th place trophy and they let Lia Thomas be the one to hold it on the podium. That’s it. I doubt she’d have even thought for a second about Lia Thomas if she’d have been the one to take the 5th place trophy home that day.

    But no, she got butthurt that she didn’t get to take the trophy home and had to wait for them to send hers to her. So she decided to become an entire transphobic activist about it. Pathetic loser behavior.





  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    15 days ago

    “I struggle with lustful thoughts when I stare at men’s asses and have to actively stop myself from acting on them. Therefore all men struggle with the same thoughts, being gay is a choice, and those who chose to be gay are simply evil degenerates.” Basically



  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    15 days ago

    Where did any of this say that the majority of homophobes are self hating gays? It’s a joke about the incredible amount of male anti-gay politicians that have literally been caught in sexual acts with other men. What are we? Not allowed to use hyperbole for the sake of comedy?

    "Man I hate squares..."
    
    "How dare you slander all rectangles like that."
    
    "Not all rectangles are squares dude."