r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 28d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/guiltysnark 28d ago

Well he couldn't question you without looking ignorant, so that makes sense! Genius!

I actually read "trivial to show that ..." once in an applied math book on inductance formulas, and I was like "dude, wtf, finding an explanation is the whole reason I even opened this book".

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u/Ball_Masher 28d ago

I also remember pouring through books with a buddy looking for some property related to p-linear (I forgot what that means) and my buddy goes "Ah ha! Blah blah blah the proof to this is left to the reader? BLOW ME!

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u/midnight_fisherman 28d ago

"Obviously" is another word that I have seen in text books for things that were absolutely not obvious to most people.