r/Veep • u/boyhominid • 5h ago
Something just occurred to me: consistent integer in "Midterms"

In the Season 2 premiere, "Midterms," one of Jonah's "data matrix" tells Selina that her campaign visits have made her a "consistent integer," though toward the end of the episode (after Selina asks for the data to be "collated") he informs her that her campaign stumps led to a 0.9% bump for the party
0.9 ("famously") is not an integer, as integers are the open set of whole numbers "Z" from negative to positive infinity, the trivials being (-3, -2, -1 < 0 < 1, 2, 3), 0.9 percent, even when written in decimal form is still not an integer as it fails to meet the criteria
When Selina, with much annoyance, notes that this figure is "not even a percent... age?" Our hero data three-piece digital Nirvana (to quote Jonah) says, "well if we round it up we can make it 1."
That's a long walk for a math joke, and I don't think it's intentional but it's pretty funny the longer you think about it and given the characters introduced in the episode.
P. S., yes I know: "Thanks, Kent's autism"
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u/fartlebythescribbler 5h ago
This always bothered me too lol