Binomial expansion Memes

First panel: Stick figure confidently declares (a+b)² = a² + b². The crowd is ready to riot with pitchforks. Second panel: Stick figure adds "mod 2" and suddenly the angry mob transforms into a satisfied audience. That moment when you realize mathematical heresy becomes genius with the right context. In modular arithmetic, the cross terms vanish into the void. The difference between being burned at the mathematical stake and receiving a Fields Medal is just a tiny notation.

The baby's first equation is mathematically incorrect, and it's breaking his mother's heart. The correct expansion of (x+y)² is x² + 2xy + y², not x² + y². This is the mathematical equivalent of watching your child's first steps lead directly into a wall. Every mathematician and algebra teacher just felt a disturbance in the force. The missing cross-term (2xy) will haunt this family for generations.