Epsilon, But Nonzero I Mean

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Epsilon, But Nonzero I Mean

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When mathematicians stalk Reddit, they bring their probability theory with them! This meme references the legendary Terence Tao (one of the greatest living mathematicians) potentially lurking on a math subreddit. The joke combines advanced math concepts—epsilon representing an arbitrarily small but nonzero probability—with the idea that someone as brilliant as Tao might be secretly posting memes about cohomology (a complex algebraic topology concept) alongside silly "-1/12" jokes (a famous mathematical paradox where the sum of all positive integers somehow equals -1/12). It's like spotting a Nobel laureate posting cat videos—technically possible, but you'd need scientific notation to express how unlikely!

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