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Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? by smegel on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:47PM (#14999298)
> nobody has successfully brought me a bucket of negative apples.

But when they did I am going to take the square root of the number of them and break the universe.

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Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? by vinchuco on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:06PM (#15000533)
I should have thought of this sooner. Since they're ALREADY talking about purely imaginary apples, take n of these. Arrange them in the bucket so as to make a square of side length n (of said imaginary apples). The result is n^2 negative apples and a really bad math joke.
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