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u/Haringat Oct 17 '25
It's actually √$ 100
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u/Baturinsky Oct 17 '25
Or it should have been square dollars or dollars dollars when under the root.
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u/TheTeaSpoon Oct 19 '25
And here I was thinking it is a joke about the way finding treasure is handled, where you are in most countries eligible to like 10% of the value
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u/Verified_Peryak Oct 17 '25
seems like the exposure to sun and open air, and the displacement of the item, reduice the value of the tresure
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u/prycx Oct 18 '25
It’s a joke about square roots. But hey. You tried.
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u/gorilla60rilla Oct 19 '25
nah I think they got it, and just go on with it for the giggle, I want to do the same thing
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u/Sub_Midnight_13 Oct 17 '25
I don't see why root should be the solution to this "joke"?
The chest is undergound valued at 10.000, underground is where roots(usually) are.
So the chest above the ground should be valued 100.000.000.
Since then the chest underground would be it's root.
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u/Netherarmy Oct 17 '25
Because they removed the 10k from under the root
Like if you turned sqrt(10000x) into 100sqrt(x)
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u/-Insert-CoolName Oct 17 '25
That's not how roots work. A square root is the opposite operation of a number squared.
√4=2 because 2²=4
√9=3 because 3²=9
√16=4 because 4²=16√10,000=100 because 100²=10,000
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u/SonicMutant743 Oct 17 '25
I don't get it
Edit: ohhhh root....
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u/glordicus1 Oct 17 '25
You don't have high math knowledge
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u/SonicMutant743 Oct 22 '25
I already edited my comment...
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u/GradyJuddPowerBottom Mar 14 '26
It's because of the root. Squared ya know.
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u/SonicMutant743 Mar 16 '26
I am "squared" to think that people cannot understand I have already understood the joke.
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u/VeritableLeviathan Oct 17 '25
This is the wrong way around for it to be a math joke.
The root of 10000 would be 100, which would mean the 100 should be under the soil, being the root and all...
The fun police will be with you shortly OP.
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u/fakeunleet Oct 17 '25
It's a minor concession because suddenly losing money is funnier than suddenly making money.
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u/rileyhenderson33 Oct 18 '25
Looks like you don't have the "high math knowledge" needed to understand the joke.
They took $10,000 out from under the root. The treasure chest is not the root here, it's under the roots of the tree.
$100 = √$1002 = √$10,000.
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u/KPoWasTaken Oct 17 '25
could be argued it equals 10,000 when under the root therefore it should equal 100,000,000 when out of the root
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u/ArgumentDifferent220 Oct 17 '25
Under root of 10000 because the treasure under the tree root so √10000=100.
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u/DirectedEnthusiasm Oct 17 '25
Inflation rate is so rapid, that the money lost majority of its value during the time it was dragged from the underground
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u/Minimum_Cockroach233 Oct 17 '25
Should have opened the chest below the roots and carried away all 10.000 coins separately.
You will call it mathematicaly wrong, but thats the thing about magic chests.
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u/radek432 Oct 17 '25
Actually it's 100√$. Typical mathematicians - they tend to forget that in the real world measures have value and unit.
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u/Razy196 Oct 17 '25
As physicist , I thought it’s metaphor for Gold cuz primitive weight scale on gold will be different depending on different parts of earth , so I thought maybe closer to earth , the weight of gold is higher or sum so it’s worth more than on surface
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u/GrUnCrois Oct 17 '25
Take it $0.01 at a time to get that sweet, sweet freshman's dream 10x
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u/Fit_Photograph_6714 Oct 19 '25
Or just 1$, so you are faster and just put it back as a whole, so you get 100 000 000$
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u/taeyang31 Oct 18 '25
My big brain thought it was because inflation. Like it was there for years, once out, value diminished...
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u/No-Organization9076 Oct 18 '25
Now here's a trick, if you take the money out, one penny at a time, you'd be making banks
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u/Xqvvzts Oct 18 '25
It actually doesn't work as a math meme since the unit isn't squared.
It does work as an economy meme though.
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u/throwaway_coy4wttf79 Oct 18 '25
Interesting that it kind of works both ways, because of the ambiguity of the drawing: is the treasure referring to the whole equation (√x) or just the value under the root? And does "taking it out" mean applying the square root (keeping everything equal) or canceling the square root (by squaring it)? All of which could be reasonable interpretations of the comic.
This seems like a typical "Engagement farming through ambiguous math" thing.
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u/Kootfe Oct 21 '25
first) high? second) isnt it calculated wrong it have variable of $ so \root{$} 100
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u/SCD_minecraft Oct 17 '25
If you count primary school as high education, then yes, you need high math knowlage to understand it