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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

1+1=3 in cases of large 1's

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

1 + 1 = 2 * 0.999...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Error, float detected when int expected

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Quantum physicist: Whats the uncertainty?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Appliance salesperson: oven + pan = hamburger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Engineer: 2, but 3 to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The budget is for 1.5, make it work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was going to say: 2ish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't they just look up the answer in a table?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Nah not anymore, now you spend a day or so building some convoluted excel calculator once so that you never need to do the calcs again.

Then, 3 years later when you go to add or change something in that calculator, you have absolutely no idea how it works and decide the change wasn't that important anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Terrence Howard : 2 !! Also 1x1=2 !!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

1 + 1 is not equal to a question mark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Computer Scientist: 10

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

ok, I define 1 as {∅} and 2 as {∅, {∅}}

proving the addition holds is slightly more complicated

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Now define "+"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I love the comment that it's "occasionally useful"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hmm yes.. set theory... I don't understand anything happening here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There is actually a really good explanation for us math-curious non-mathematicians here:
https://blog.plover.com/math/PM.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

+ is a map from N×N to N where a + 0 = a and a + S(b) = S(a + b) (S is the successor function that gives the next number).
Then 1 + 1 = 1 + S(0) = S(1 + 0) = S(1) = 2.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You forgot accountant

"What do you need it to be?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

We need to report negative earnings so we don't have to pay taxes obviously