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xkcd #3180: Apples

Title text:

The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"You need what budget now to experimentally count Graham's Number of apples?"

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's $0 + 10^9^i. Spend it wisely.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Do you mean $0 + 10^9 i or are you inferring some relation to Euler's formula?

[–] BennyInc@feddit.org 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now divide them evenly between 0 people.

Then build that hotel with an infinite number of guest rooms.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

They've already started building the hotel, but they've got a way to go.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Next experiment will be the Banach–Tarski paradox.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Any volunteers?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "question everything" folks, too.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, the ones that says we shouldn't trust scientists and doctors, not realizing the alternative would be to check and prove every single thing before believing it.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

In my experience, those people don't go around questioning things. They just pick somebody to believe and make them their messiah or something.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago