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Someone innocently asked r/mathematics how to find the length of a curve, and this absolute legend responded with the most unnecessarily overcomplicated word salad possible: "Just calculate the supremum of the distance induced by the Riemannian structure induced from the embedding in the Euclidean plane on the graph over the open interval."
Translation for mortals: "Use calculus to add up tiny segments along the curve." But why say that when you can sound like you're defending a PhD thesis at 2 AM while simultaneously having a stroke?
The real answer is arc length integration, which for this x² curve would be ∫√(1 + (2x)²)dx from 0 to 3. Simple, elegant, teachable. But nope—someone decided to flex their entire differential geometry vocabulary instead. The mathematical equivalent of using a flamethrower to light a birthday candle.
And judging by the title, r/mathematics did NOT appreciate the comedy. Mathematicians: proving once again they can solve complex integrals but can't detect sarcasm to save their lives.
