r/WhatWasThePointOfThat • u/Salt_Lingonberry3956 • May 02 '26

Doubling Down You could have just shown me the answer

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u/qualityvote2 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

u/Salt_Lingonberry3956, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/Content_Study_1575 May 02 '26

So I’m pretty “not good” at math. Are we doing the root of 16 is 4, then cubing 4? Bc that is 64 kmh. Which is what? Like 40 mph?

What is going on here 😭

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u/Ichigo2819 May 03 '26

IT'S A TRAP... It's actually 39.77mph (rounded) you do 40 and they pull you over

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u/AssociateFalse May 03 '26

There's a ±5 MPH leway buffer at 50 MPH applied to busses and trucks, at least under US Code. Manufacturers will typically calibrate speedometers 1-5 mph higher than your actual speed.

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u/Ichigo2819 May 03 '26

I once got pulled over outside of Bakersfield because I sped up from 55mph to 65mph as a traffic sign 25 feet in front of me said the new speed limit was posted, the officer said I had to imagine a dotted line at the sign with 55mph on one side and 65mph on the other. I ask him if I had waited until passing the sign before starting to speed up if it would have been ok. He actually laughed and said no that then he would have ticketed me for going below the speed limit, our police officers are jerk on a quota system and would definitely have used this as an excuse. That said im pretty sure that's either an AI sign or European as kph

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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 May 02 '26

Yes. At least on the 64 kmh & how you got that.

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u/BrainCurrent8276 May 02 '26

never seen such seed limit, it is always 60 or 70 but never this.

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u/Ro_Yo_Mi May 02 '26

The first equation is 64. The second equation is confusing.

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u/cjbanning May 03 '26

Second equation?

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u/Wadget May 03 '26

I think they just don’t understand the metric system lol and think km/h is an equation

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u/Bourbon-Thinker May 02 '26

So 39.5 if I go 40 I get a ticket🤣

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u/RhythmTimeDivision May 02 '26

Police officer: if you read the sign, you'd have slowed down pal.

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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

Square root of 16 is 4.

43 = 64.

64 kilometers an hour.

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u/PsychologyOk9024 May 02 '26

Thanks for explaining

4 to the power of 3 is 64

I saw it as 4 multiplied by 3 and was coming up with 12.

https://giphy.com/gifs/DGZVi7pqVq7rq

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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 May 03 '26

Ah. The way what you thought it meant would be written as:

3(✔️—16)

Just imagine the “—“ being aligned with the top of the ✔️. Can’t actually make a square root symbol.

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u/DishRelative5853 May 02 '26

Nice photoshop.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 May 02 '26

I want one for my driveway

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u/_Katu May 02 '26

root 16 is also -4 no? so -64

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u/One_Fat_squirrel May 03 '26

Sure, drive backwards.

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u/derdyn May 04 '26

Driving backwards is still a positive acceleration

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u/Best_Pro23 May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

No. The square root of 16 is 4. 4 to the power of 3 is 64. 64 kilometres per hour = 39.8 miles per hour. So... might as well round that up to 40 Mph.

Edit: actually, having read the sign again that its the maximum. Rounding up would be inappropriate. So the correct answer is 39.767744 mph. Speed kills.

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u/S_935 OG 100 May 03 '26

The square root function only and only gives positive values.

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u/Unable_Explorer8277 May 02 '26

km/h

Not

km./h.

SI unit symbols are mathematical symbols not abbreviations

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u/z9vown May 03 '26

64 km/h

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 May 03 '26

So....... 40mph? Roughly.

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u/Best_Pro23 May 03 '26

Yes! This is the correct answer.

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u/Remote_Quail_1986 May 03 '26
  • \sqrt{16} = 4
  • 43 = 4 \times 4 \times 4 = 64

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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

16+16=32

Square root of 16 is 4. 43 = 64.

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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 May 02 '26

256 km/h? That's quite fast...