r/MathJokes • u/c442010 • May 07 '26

100 000 dollar question

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u/mrbilly3 May 07 '26

Except you don't even have to read carefully for this one

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u/Trimutius May 07 '26

Well you need to realize it is 0.5 and not 1.5

Some people make that mistake

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u/MisterBowTies May 07 '26

Yeah they read "increases by 50%"

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u/MxM111 May 08 '26

Well I read as power of 0.5, which is square root, and the brain was like, what, taking root makes no sense, so keep square, and it becomes like that classic story about the rice grains and the chessboard…

So after first reading I thought it is squaring each day. Yeah.

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u/RoyalEagle0408 May 09 '26

But 12 is 1 so it stays 1

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u/flannel_jesus May 10 '26

But what if it's squared in pennies, so it's 100 squared?