Where Did I Go Wrong?

While the rest of us peasants are meticulously constructing proofs like we're building IKEA furniture with missing parts, Srinivasa Ramanujan just took a nap and woke up with revolutionary mathematical insights. The man literally dreamed up solutions that took other mathematicians decades to verify. No formal training? No problem! Just casually revolutionize number theory between REM cycles. The ultimate flex isn't showing your work—it's having the goddess of mathematics whisper theorems in your ear while you're asleep. Next time your professor demands a step-by-step solution, just tell them you're taking the Ramanujan approach.

The red circle highlights all the trigonometry and logarithm buttons that haunted our math classes! For most people, these functions might as well be decorative stickers. We spent weeks learning SOH-CAH-TOA only to graduate and never compute a single tangent again. Meanwhile, the humble addition and multiplication buttons are doing 99% of the heavy lifting in our daily calculations. Those sin, cos, and tan buttons are basically the appendix of the calculator world – technically they serve a purpose, but most of us are living just fine without ever using them!

The mathematical equivalent of creating your own language nobody can understand! This genius proposes Base ∞ where every number gets its own unique symbol—essentially making counting as efficient as memorizing the entire Unicode library. It's like saying "I've solved math by making it completely unusable!" The punchline about hesitating to ask questions is the chef's kiss—because who wouldn't have questions about a numbering system that's basically just assigning random hieroglyphics to integers? Computer scientists are quietly having panic attacks imagining the memory requirements for storing these symbols. Binary? Decimal? Hexadecimal? Nah, let's just assign emojis to every possible number and call it revolutionary!

The skeleton lifting weights isn't just building bone density—it's factoring polynomials. Vieta's formulas transform quadratic equations from standard form into factored form without breaking a sweat. Meanwhile, I'm over here using the quadratic formula like a caveman. The true gym bros know: why calculate roots when you can just factor? That's mathematical efficiency at its finest.

The mathematical transformation being rudely misidentified here is the Fourier transform , which converts signals from time domain to frequency domain. But some poor stick figure has accidentally called it a "furry transform" instead. Honestly, that's a completely different kind of transformation that happens at conventions with suspicious amounts of mascot costumes. Signal processing engineers everywhere just collectively facepalmed so hard they created their own sine wave.

The confidence-to-knowledge ratio strikes again! Our YouTube scholar boldly claims that mathematicians would say you can add 1 to infinity, only to get shut down with a single "no" from someone who actually understands the concept. In reality, infinity isn't a number you can just casually add 1 to—it's a concept representing something that continues without bound. That's like saying "I'll have one ocean, plus a glass of water." The mathematician's "no" is doing some heavy lifting here, carrying the weight of several advanced math courses and countless theorems. The internet: where 15 minutes of watching math videos transforms you into Gauss... until you meet someone who's spent more than 15 minutes studying math.