Math Memes

1156 readers

413 users here now

Memes related to mathematics.

Rules:
1: Memes must be related to mathematics in some way.
2: No bigotry of any kind.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

236

Simplify (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] disguy_ovahea 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago

Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

0 wasn’t invented yet.

Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

TIL they had ghost concerts back then

[–] disguy_ovahea 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.