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Empty Product Be Like

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22 days ago 5.3K views 0 shares

Empty Product Be Like

The mathematical warrior has spoken! This meme beautifully captures the properties of empty products in mathematics. When you multiply zero numbers together (from i=1 to 0), you get 1 by definition - not zero as intuition might suggest. It's like showing up to a multiplication party where nobody brought any factors, yet somehow you end up with a value! Meanwhile, multiplying any set of numbers that includes a zero will give you zero (as shown in the first two equations). The climbing character perfectly represents the index "i" that "can only go up" from its starting value - exactly how mathematical notation works. Mathematicians didn't make these rules to torture students... but that's definitely a bonus feature.

The Array Index Identity Crisis

Tech Math Engineering

3 months ago 11.1K views 0 shares

The Array Index Identity Crisis

The coding trauma is REAL! This programmer just committed the cardinal sin of starting an array index at 1 instead of 0 in front of the wrong crowd. In programming, arrays traditionally start at index 0 (a convention most coders treat as sacred law), but MATLAB users start at 1. It's like announcing you put milk before cereal at a breakfast enthusiast convention. The MATLAB logo in the corner is the chef's kiss of this disaster - showing exactly which programming environment led to this social catastrophe. Now this poor soul is experiencing the social equivalent of a runtime error!