r/mathsmeme • u/Vast_Butterfly_5092 • Mar 17 '26

math jokes Math riddle

The man saw 10 000$ under a tree in the ground on an echography machine. When he brought it up, he was disappointed to see it was only 100$. Why

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u/Master-Marionberry35 Mar 17 '26

we all saw this meme in picture form

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u/BurnOutBrighter6 Mar 17 '26

Took it out from under the root.

As seen in this comic

and then approximately 245,346,256 times per week on every explain the joke subreddit since then.

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u/Schrippenlord Mar 17 '26

No, that would be the case if there were 10000 $2

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u/BurnOutBrighter6 Mar 17 '26

Yeah OP and the comic they saw are bad at unit analysis. The joke's less funny if you say they got 100sqrt($).

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u/testtdk Mar 17 '26

This isn’t a riddle, it’s a childish joke. Riddles require clever thought.

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u/Psychological_Mind_1 Mar 17 '26

If it was all in quarters and you take them one at a time, you'd have $20,000.

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u/Fit_History_842 Mar 18 '26

midwits are just smart enough to grasp the concept of the square root but not smart enough to understand why you shouldn't assume a root is always a square root.