When Math Nerds Fix Dating Diagrams

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When Math Nerds Fix Dating Diagrams

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Someone turned a dating diagram into a hilarious physics joke! The original probably showed women all going for one guy, but our science hero "fixed it" by relabeling the top man as a "Terminal object in the category of people" and circling all the men as "Average guy." It's basically turned dating struggles into category theory! In mathematics, a terminal object is one that receives exactly one morphism from every object in the category. Translation: in this dating universe, everyone's apparently drawn to this one mathematical singularity of a person while everyone else is just... average. Dating problems solved with abstract algebra - because nothing says "I'm single" like understanding category theory!

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