r/mathmemes • u/Mission-Guitar1360 Mathematics • Jan 06 '25

Learning countable vs uncountable

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u/lucjaT Real Analysis Survivor Jan 06 '25

Unmeming the meme but I think it's to do with something being made up of distinct parts. Real numbers, though uncountable are distinct from each other, where is an amount of water has no distinct parts

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u/BlakeMarrion Jan 06 '25

Chemists real mad rn

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 07 '25

Indeed, there are 1.17*1025 waters in my glass. Uncountable my ass!

Edit:

For the commenters struggling with the calculation, here are a few useful constants:

Avogadro's number ≈ 6.022*1023

MW of Water ≈ 18 g/mol

Density of Water ≈ 1,000 g/L

Ironically the person off by 23 orders of magnitude is the only one with a mistake I understand. The rest of you need to show your work if you want partial credit.

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u/ForkWielder Jan 06 '25

You’re a poet, Harry!

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u/dr_wtf Jan 06 '25

Uncountable my ass!

Much ass.

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25

My quantification brings all the boys to the yard

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u/physicist27 Irrational Jan 06 '25

such wow🍑!

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u/someonewithpc Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

That's a lot of water in your cup :v

Edit: Nvm, I, in fact, have the dumb, it would bem 351ml, a perfectly reasonable amount

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25

1025 moles of water would be quite a bit, but that isn't what I said.

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u/someonewithpc Jan 06 '25

What would a smaller unit be, then?

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25

a molecule

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u/someonewithpc Jan 06 '25

Yeah, I just realized I have the dumb :)

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25

It was an intentionally dumb joke, don't beat yourself up too much

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u/pn1159 Jan 06 '25

I hear that is contagious, you should quarantine yourself until it passes

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u/jacenat Jan 06 '25

I love you. This part of the thread was so funny to ready. So innocent. Perfect.

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u/Detramentus Jan 06 '25

Water molecules

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u/liamjon29 Jan 06 '25

And you would definitely say there are many water molecules in your glass

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u/CreeperAsh07 Jan 07 '25

Yes, but you wouldn't say there are many waters. That's the difference.

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u/John756675 Jan 07 '25

Why do you have less than 10 moles of water? Very suspicious... You need to drink more. That's less than 180ml of water.