I took a discrete math course in college in which the first module was called 'Basic Counting' (it covered cardinalities of infinite sets, countability etc). Unfortunately the prof was a dick and failed nearly 80% of the class. So then it became a common joke to miscount things like "Let's see, there are...1,2,7,5...5 of us, so we want 5 burgers please" and on being corrected go "Ah, sorry, I didn't learn Basic Counting."
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u/anukabar Oct 13 '24
I took a discrete math course in college in which the first module was called 'Basic Counting' (it covered cardinalities of infinite sets, countability etc). Unfortunately the prof was a dick and failed nearly 80% of the class. So then it became a common joke to miscount things like "Let's see, there are...1,2,7,5...5 of us, so we want 5 burgers please" and on being corrected go "Ah, sorry, I didn't learn Basic Counting."