Some math fails
26 billion will tune in! Answer fail I don’t understand basic math… The “six” of diamonds
26 billion will tune in! Answer fail I don’t understand basic math… The “six” of diamonds
This one comes from the geek subreddit where user dzudz writes about his biggest “But you’re wrong! You have to believe me!” moment (only counting topics that are scientifically proven to be wrong, nothing up to interpretation): “Oh god. This one still pains me. In a trivia contest with some of my co-workers, one of …
There is a flaw in World of Warcrafts statistics for “Total gold acquired”. A couple years ago, players discovered that the most a character can hold is 2^31 (or 2147483648) copper pieces of currency. This is what is known as the “gold cap” in World of Warcraft. A single character cannot hold more gold than …
All winners who are in Canada have to answer math problems before getting any prize. Things like… 90 x 2, then divide by six, then x 12 This question was for claiming an Xbox 360 in a contest, so the answer of course is 360! But WHY?? Americans don’t have to do it, a monkey …
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I’m always eager about finding math mistakes in the news. The Herald reported that a Traffic Warden was incorrectly ticketing cars in a parking lot because of how he was using his calculator. He failed to realize that calculators work in decimals rather than minutes and hours. One car owner saw this and tried to …
Mental attractiveness vs physical attractiveness Learn to draw a camel by beginning with a triangle Counting Fail – Five bananas… err… All double priced items half off… 3 out of 2 people have trouble with fractions… Math Test Fail Look at the speedometer… Math Test Fail Math Test Fail …
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I found this on a pizza I bought, made by Dr. Oetker. They should have learnt how a clock works better in school. Have a nice weekend, greetings from Switzerland (just to be clear: Dr. Oetker is a German company ^^) Thanks to Manuel for this submission!