Technical correctness Memes

The bell curve of mathematical understanding strikes again! On the far left, we have the blissfully clueless folks asking "wtf is a polynomial" with their 55 IQ. In the middle peak at 100 IQ, we have the textbook warriors confidently stating "a polynomial is a function" (they memorized that from Chapter 1). Then on the far right, the 145 IQ galaxy brains declare "a polynomial is NOT a function" before the final enlightened sage corrects them with "erm... actually" – because technically, polynomials are expressions that can be used to define functions, but they aren't functions themselves. It's that beautiful moment when you've gone so deep into math that you circle back to sounding like you don't understand math. The duality of polynomial existence is keeping math professors employed worldwide!

The topology enthusiast is having an existential meltdown because in mathematical topology, a "hole" isn't something physically dug but rather a fundamental property of space! In topology, surfaces are classified by their genus (number of holes), but these aren't actual excavations—they're abstract properties of connectedness. So technically, no hole has ever been "dug" because holes in topology exist as mathematical properties rather than physical voids. Meanwhile, the regular person is just talking about the Kola Superdeep Borehole without realizing they've triggered a mathematician's worst nightmare.