What about plain old
x = -10
?-10 ^ 2 = 100
-10 ^ 3 = -1000
-10 ^ 5 = -100000171 2 ReplyIsn't that the joke?
120 0 ReplyThat's what he wrote, I imagine.
67 0 ReplyIt is, but with imaginary numbets
39 0 Reply
i² = -1 so...
43 0 Reply10 * i^2 is -10.
24 0 ReplyNothing gets past you eh?
26 10 Replypeople being pedantic showoffs doesn't really register as humor for me, TBH
36 1 Reply
That was my immediate thought too.
8 0 ReplyBoooooring
5 1 Reply
When all you have is an imaginary hammer, everything looks like a rotation around the imaginary unit circle.
Explanation of maths
x = -10, i = √-1 so i² = -1 and 10i²=-10
96 0 ReplyFound the math but no explanation.
15 0 ReplyThe squareroot of 100 is ±10.
16 1 Reply
Wait, isn’t x just -10 if x^3 is not 1000?
35 0 Replyyes, it is
15 0 Reply
that is a very long way to write -10
27 0 ReplyMy brain
It hurts
13 0 ReplyThat's because the explanation was about 10 times as complicated as it needs to be
44 0 ReplyMath pun intended?
12 0 Reply
He is trolling with overcomplicating
23 0 Reply
No definition what values are suitable for x.
10 0 Replyx has to be -10, right? Or am I missing something?
20 0 ReplyYeah, I think the point is that the person answering was wrong/over complicating. If x=10i, then x^2 would be -100 (or potentially -10 depending on what you think the ^2 is applied to).
7 1 ReplyThe answer in the meme (10i^2) is -10
4 0 ReplyDepends on what are the allowed values for x are. Real numbers, complexe numbers, binary or I made up my own numbers ;)
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What an extremely unnecessary explanation. As a math teacher I would have deducted points for this answer.
12 3 Reply"show your work"
Malicious compliance intensifies
7 0 ReplyUnless I was in that clas where we had to write mathematical proofs. I HATED those. Sure, you solved the question but write out this complicated reason for why your answer is the correct answer.
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