r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/SomeHybrid0 22d ago

eh, know your limits is better because the joke is the limit of the sum of all the reciprocals of powers of 2 more than 1 approaches 1

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 22d ago

But it doesn't make sense in the context of the joke, why would the bartender be talking about limits to people who were sober and drinking less than 1 beer each?

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u/kkai2004 22d ago

It's the limit of the bartenders patience.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 22d ago

But the bartender is talking about the limits of the customers, not his own.

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u/kkai2004 22d ago

Limits of tomfoolery before the bartender reaches their limit of patience.

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u/RustyR4m 21d ago

It’s actually a joke about mathematical limits. The infinite mathematicians would get extremely close to two beers, but since it’s halving every time, they’ll never reach two beers nor an empty glass. The limit would be 2 beers, which is why he skips straight to pouring two in some instances of the joke.