Mathematical Pedantry At Its Finest

Ever been smacked in the face by the rocket equation? The meme brilliantly captures the existential crisis of aerospace engineers! On the bell curve of intelligence, the average folks (IQ 100) are freaking out about the exponential nature of the rocket equation, while both the lower and higher IQ groups blissfully believe "rocket range is proportional to fuel." The painful truth? The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation shows that as you add more fuel, you need even MORE fuel to carry that fuel! It's like trying to diet while working at a chocolate factory - exponentially difficult! This is why rocket scientists drink.

When mathematical literacy goes to die on internet forums. The first poster claims 14 is prime, which would require it to be divisible only by 1 and itself. The second poster correctly points out that 14 is divisible by 2 and 7, making it decidedly non-prime. It's like watching someone confidently announce they've discovered a new element called "water" only to be reminded that H₂O has been on the periodic table since... never. This is the mathematical equivalent of bringing a knife to a gun fight, except the knife is made of Play-Doh.

Move over, astrology! The true personality test is how you write your multiplication symbols. Are you a clean-cut "×" enthusiast? Perhaps a minimalist dot person? Maybe you're the chaotic "∗" user who probably also writes your y's with weird loops. Or are you the parentheses monster who makes simple equations look like they're having an existential crisis? Your notation choice reveals more about your psyche than any horoscope ever could. Mathematicians have been silently judging you for years based on this alone.

When your general interest in science walks right past you, but then mathematics shows up and you're suddenly in a committed relationship! That moment when you realize you've been ghosted by biology and chemistry, but the elegant proofs and equations of math have you completely captivated. The universal experience of thinking you're into all sciences until that one discipline grabs you by the heart and whispers "let me show you what a real intellectual connection feels like." The rest is history—you and differential equations, together forever, while poor general science wonders what it did wrong.

Content Why people regret majoring in math • No idea what to do after graduation. • You thought you were good at math in high school... and assumed college would just be "more of the same."

The mathematical hierarchy we never knew we needed! This tier list ranks numbers 1-12 by how easy their divisibility tests are, and it's painfully accurate. Number 1 sits alone at the top because literally EVERYTHING is divisible by 1 (congrats on being useless, buddy). Then we've got the easy-mode squad: 2, 5, and 10 in tier A because "is it even?" or "does it end in 0/5?" takes zero brain cells. The B-tier crew (3, 4, 9) requires slightly more effort but still has clean tricks. Meanwhile, poor 7 is banished to F-tier because testing divisibility by 7 feels like solving a differential equation while riding a unicycle. The mathematical trauma is real.