Computational mathematics Memes

The eternal struggle of math students everywhere! Batman Beyond (aka "Euler's Method") confidently shows up to solve differential equations, but our glowing skeleton villain is completely lost. "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" is basically every student trying to remember which numerical approximation technique to use on their calculus exam. There are like 50 different Euler methods—explicit, implicit, modified, improved, backward... The professor might as well have said "use math" as a hint. The panic is real when you're staring at that blank exam paper trying to remember if it's the one with the tangent lines or the one with the fancy error terms!

The mathematical equivalent of using a chainsaw to cut butter. This formula uses TREE(3) - a number so incomprehensibly large that writing it would require more atoms than exist in the universe - just to calculate e (2.71828...). It's like using the Death Star to kill a fly. Mathematicians in the wild, folks. They'll complicate anything for fun.

The peak of mathematical rigor in 2023: Googling whether Graham's number is prime and taking the first result as gospel. For those unaware, Graham's number is so incomprehensibly large that if you tried to write it out in standard notation, the number of digits wouldn't fit in the observable universe. Yet somehow Google confidently declares it prime in 0.35 seconds. Mathematicians who've spent decades proving primality for much smaller numbers are clearly wasting their time. Next research paper: "Prime factorization solved with this one weird trick. Peer reviewers hate it!"