▲ 325 ▼ He’s smart, ok? (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 days ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 4 days ago (4 children) God I hated questions like this in school. There's always something specific the teacher is looking for, but nothing to point you towards it. permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago Usually the pointer is the blahblah the teacher was droning while you were fantasizing about the attractive classmate sitting directly in front of you permalink fedilink source parent [–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago I suppose “by definition” would probably have been counted as wrong permalink fedilink source parent [–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 child) I'm thinking maybe "Because if you subtract 40 from my number you get a negative number," but I could be either over- or under-thinking it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] scibra122@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (1 child) I was guessing either it has fewer digits or the tens digit is less than 4 would be the desired answers depending on what the selected number was, that kind of question feels like it would predate negative numbers on the learning curve permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago "Because it has less in it" permalink fedilink source parent [–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 child) Yeah, I always felt like I was either pointlessly restating the obvious or it expected me to derive the damn thing from first principles. AI slop proof, just because I was curious if duck.ai could do itUsing the natural numbers defined from 0 by the successor operation S: 1=S(0), 2=S(1), ... , 20=S^20^(0), 40=S^40^(0) Define a < b to mean that there exists a natural number k such that a+k=b. Take a=20 and k=20. By repeated addition, 20+20=40. Since 20 is a natural number, there exists a natural number k such that 20+k=40. Therefore, by the definition of the ordering relation, 20<40. (Is it correct? Fuck if I know!) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago A.I. is proving that 20<40 by: creating a sequence then completely disregarding that then saying that since you can add 20 to itself to create 40 it must be less then disregarding that and saying that the sequence of numbers proves it because we found 20 first Honestly since it's such a simple equation, in real life you could just say 20<40 because 20<40. You don't really need to prove anything, the proof is in the logical operator. The homework question is dumb because it isn't clear what they're asking for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago Usually the pointer is the blahblah the teacher was droning while you were fantasizing about the attractive classmate sitting directly in front of you permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago I suppose “by definition” would probably have been counted as wrong permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 child) I'm thinking maybe "Because if you subtract 40 from my number you get a negative number," but I could be either over- or under-thinking it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] scibra122@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (1 child) I was guessing either it has fewer digits or the tens digit is less than 4 would be the desired answers depending on what the selected number was, that kind of question feels like it would predate negative numbers on the learning curve permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago "Because it has less in it" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] scibra122@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (1 child) I was guessing either it has fewer digits or the tens digit is less than 4 would be the desired answers depending on what the selected number was, that kind of question feels like it would predate negative numbers on the learning curve permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago "Because it has less in it" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago "Because it has less in it" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 child) Yeah, I always felt like I was either pointlessly restating the obvious or it expected me to derive the damn thing from first principles. AI slop proof, just because I was curious if duck.ai could do itUsing the natural numbers defined from 0 by the successor operation S: 1=S(0), 2=S(1), ... , 20=S^20^(0), 40=S^40^(0) Define a < b to mean that there exists a natural number k such that a+k=b. Take a=20 and k=20. By repeated addition, 20+20=40. Since 20 is a natural number, there exists a natural number k such that 20+k=40. Therefore, by the definition of the ordering relation, 20<40. (Is it correct? Fuck if I know!) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago A.I. is proving that 20<40 by: creating a sequence then completely disregarding that then saying that since you can add 20 to itself to create 40 it must be less then disregarding that and saying that the sequence of numbers proves it because we found 20 first Honestly since it's such a simple equation, in real life you could just say 20<40 because 20<40. You don't really need to prove anything, the proof is in the logical operator. The homework question is dumb because it isn't clear what they're asking for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago A.I. is proving that 20<40 by: creating a sequence then completely disregarding that then saying that since you can add 20 to itself to create 40 it must be less then disregarding that and saying that the sequence of numbers proves it because we found 20 first Honestly since it's such a simple equation, in real life you could just say 20<40 because 20<40. You don't really need to prove anything, the proof is in the logical operator. The homework question is dumb because it isn't clear what they're asking for. permalink fedilink source parent
