Academia
Ai
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Climate
Conspiracy
Earth-science
Engineering
Evolution
Geology
The perfect equation to trigger both tribes! In programming, x = x + 1 is perfectly valid—it's just variable reassignment where x gets incremented. Programmers are cool with this notation because they understand it means "take x's current value, add 1, then store the result back in x."
Meanwhile, mathematicians are having an existential crisis because this equation implies that 0 = 1, which would collapse all of mathematics into nonsense. Flip the equation to x + 1 = x, and suddenly programmers join the rage party too—because now it's not just mathematically impossible, it's also syntactically invalid in most programming languages!
The beauty of interdisciplinary warfare in one elegant equation. *chef's kiss*
