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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 17 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

it's not actually math.

It literally is math tho

It's people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results.

Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago

Like robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

None of those contexts include ordering a number of beers

But that's literally the joke in the meme tho

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Ostensibly it's used a lot in quantum physics