Mathematical convention Memes

Mathematicians giving thumbs up to various exponents until they hit zero to the power of zero (0⁰), which breaks their brains! This mathematical edge case equals 1 by convention, but it's technically an indeterminate form that requires calculus wizardry to evaluate properly. It's like dividing by zero's slightly less catastrophic cousin that still makes mathematicians scream internally. Even cats understand exponent rules better than some calculus students!

The ultimate STEM civil war nobody talks about! Mathematicians and physicists have been silently judging each other's approach to inner products for centuries. While mathematicians insist inner products are linear in the first slot (pure, elegant, axiomatically sound), physicists stubbornly make them linear in the second slot (because who needs convention when you've got quantum mechanics to worry about?). This subtle notation difference has caused more interdepartmental tension than budget cuts and parking spaces combined. Next time you're at a university cocktail party, just whisper "which slot is linear?" and watch chaos unfold.