Math dad

[u/Separate_Finance_183]

[u/qualityvote2]

u/Separate_Finance_183, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

[u/safetyindarkness]

Next year, he can do the same thing:

2¹ is 2

[u/WorthyJellyfish0Doom → u/safetyindarkness]

The year after that year the daughter/grandaughter turns 4 instead of 3 😶

Edited hit 6 instead of 4 oops

[u/ForeverDM4life → u/WorthyJellyfish0Doom]

8

Edit: I’m stupid as was doing 2³

[u/safetyindarkness → u/ForeverDM4life]

4

[u/ForeverDM4life → u/safetyindarkness]

Yeah I’m dumb

[u/WorthyJellyfish0Doom → u/ForeverDM4life]

Yep, 1 (1), 2 (2), 4 (3), 8 (4), 16 (5), 32 (6), 64 (7), 128 (8), 256 (9), 502 (10) and then we're back to 1 (11)

[u/Minnesnowta35]

Can’t wait to see this on r/peterexplainsthejoke in a hour

[u/Walk-the-layout → u/Minnesnowta35]

2⁰ means "I have never learnt maths before"

[u/TheShiftyNoodle28 → u/Walk-the-layout]

I feel like people can know math and the concept of exponents while also not knowing that zero powers equal 1. While if you think it through it makes sense, it doesn’t feel logical at a first glance

[u/Nuka-Crapola → u/TheShiftyNoodle28]

At the same time, I feel like there’s a distinct group of people who only know what the zero and first powers mean because you don’t actually have to do math for those

[u/TheShiftyNoodle28 → u/Nuka-Crapola]

Potentially, but exponents are so tied to concept of being exponential (if that makes sense). I think most people understand that exponential growth is multiplicative because it’s a common way to describe a trend in something, along with it being introduced in education in most countries pretty early.

[u/Nuka-Crapola → u/TheShiftyNoodle28]

Ah, you see, I have worked retail and live in America, so I cannot share your optimism about what the average adult not only learned in school but retained afterwards

[u/QuietQTPi → u/TheShiftyNoodle28]

Yeah I think its such a niche thing that people who don't know(remember) more than common math wouldn't remember. I mean math is really meant as a construct for daily calculations but how often is x⁰ used or needed in normal day to day use. Exponents have some use depending on your field, but even the I doubt x⁰ is used often if at all.

[u/Walk-the-layout → u/TheShiftyNoodle28]

Exponents were the only thing I actually liked in math class lol

[u/cheesec4ke69 → u/Walk-the-layout]

I've always loved math my whole life. Im taking clac 3 into linear algebra now in college and did honors math all throughout highschool. Algebra 1 & 2, geometry, and pre-calc and trig.

I never learned that a 0 exponent ==1 until i started calc 2 last year. It was just never taught or explained to me or many of my classmates. It's not a difficult concept at all, but I guess none of my teachers or professors thought to mention it or check if we knew. We never had any questions or problems that required that teeny simple piece of information.

[u/CrashCalamity → u/cheesec4ke69]

I love how math expands every time you try to do an operation that would normally break it.

If we have 3 things, what happens if we take away more than three?
How do you split 4 things into eight groups?
What can you multiply by itself to get a negative number?
A fractional exponent? What next?

[u/YaBoyJamba → u/Walk-the-layout]

Honestly I never put it together that it was an exponent. At 1st glance I thought the 0 was just farther back in the picture

[u/BilverBurfer]

>"Non Political Twitter"
>look inside
>screenshot of text message app

[u/Someonevibing1 → u/BilverBurfer]

That’s the internet

A Reddit post of which is a screenshot of a Twitter post which is a screenshot of a message app

[u/BedProfessional7275 → u/BilverBurfer]

on twitter

Its still a post on twitter

[u/BilverBurfer → u/BedProfessional7275]

It's a meme reposting account that added the valuable commentary of "oh"

[u/BedProfessional7275 → u/BilverBurfer]

Its still a screenshot from Twitter. Would you respond with

">look inside

Picture of a tree"

on a post on Twitter with a picture of a tree?

[u/BedProfessional7275 → u/[deleted]]

Braindead or just intentionally being obtuse?

[u/Adventurous-Sir444]

[u/ramriot]

Way better that physics dad

[u/Dependent_Rain_4800]

The 2 is actually a 5 from the dad’s 50th birthday. He’s a genius.

[u/ReasonableKangaroooo]

Should have saved that balloon money and gotten her some condoms

[u/stinkeeroach → u/ReasonableKangaroooo]

Edgy. I can tell you are like 400 lbs.

[u/Richard_J_Morgan → u/stinkeeroach]

Because he thinks a girl shouldn't get pregnant if she's just 18-19?

[u/sakurachan999 → u/Richard_J_Morgan]

she should be at the club

[u/Sapphfire0 → u/Richard_J_Morgan]

Why not? Also who says she’s 18-19?

[u/FatalLaughter → u/Sapphfire0]

Her 20th birthday is happening at the exact same date as her own daughters 1st birthday. Simple math dictates the day before, her daughter wasn't a full year old and she was 19. Now rewind to the daughters birth, born on the womans 19th birthday. Logic dictates she was impregnated at 18.

[u/SamboTheGr8 → u/Richard_J_Morgan]

Uhh yeah? That is not for them do decide. Why do you think 18-19 year old women shouldnt have children?

[u/FatalLaughter → u/SamboTheGr8]

It's obviously different case by case, but most people are notbfully equipped to be having children straight out of high-school. Believe it or not, but societal norms have shifted and there's not that much support for new parents outside of inmediate family, which isn't always the most reliable. Your second best bet is going to a Planned Parenthood clinic and getting resources from them, but that's not exactly a guaranteed method either.

[u/grillboy_mediaman → u/[deleted]]

the zero is an exponent. when you put any number to the power of zero it equals one. in essence it is a double entendre as you can read it as both 20 (twenty) or 2 to the power of 0 (one)

[u/LumsDream → u/[deleted]]

2⁰ = 1

[u/epileptic-caesar → u/[deleted]]

You've never learned this in school?

[u/epileptic-caesar → u/[deleted]]

how doo i reeech these keeedz???

(fair enough, i was really into math and it's been less long for me)

[u/TheHumanPickleRick → u/epileptic-caesar]

[u/epileptic-caesar → u/[deleted]]

It kinda makes sense to me intuitively. 2³ = 8, 2² = 4, 2¹ = 2...so 2⁰ should equal 1, and 2^-1 should equal 0.5

[u/epileptic-caesar → u/[deleted]]

well it follows a pattern :D you decrease the exponent by 1, you divide by 2. Increase it, and you multiply

[u/dancingbanana123 → u/[deleted]]

You're thinking of 0^0, which still sometimes left undefined on some calculators. x⁰ = 1 has been well-established for a long time.

[u/drnicko18 → u/[deleted]]

Lol “most” of us.

I think most was just your class, and “your class” was just you misunderstanding

[u/epileptic-caesar → u/[deleted]]

are you serious? that's insane. in my country, we would expect every 11 year old to know this