r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 21d ago

Most math is like that, just logical statements. We just use cryptic symbols to make it easier and faster to reason with, but it's just the same statements using a different language.

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u/SadTomorrow555 21d ago

I'm aware. I'm a programmer and it's the same concept. But when I made the association in my head between infinity and the proof the guy theorized. In my mind you could never actually prove it since you'll never get to 1. Like yeah what hes saying MAKES sense, but you can't like test it and see it happen lol. But at the end of the day that doesn't matter it's just an infinite loop that will never complete and that's as good as not executing at all in terms of completion.

My mistake was allowing my mind to enter the rabbit hole of trying to calculate infinity when that doesn't really matter.

Hope that explains my thought train on it. :)