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Programmers: false

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true

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If both are horny enough, they won’t even see the characters and only see the cleavage.

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Can confirm. Am a programmer and my first thought was that mathematicians had recently come up with one of their wacky proofs that 2 does not equal 2, like how 1 is equal to 0.

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1 == 0.9999999…

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Wouldn’t mathematicians also see this as false?

4 = 2 is not correct.

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Now I look stupid, but I promise, I’m just too tired to think straight.

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It’s not 4. Wiki has a table and more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial

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Damn, I’m so dumb it hurts

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me too but you were brave enough to ask

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2 != 2

But what if it’s true? Perhaps the 2 on the left is integer and the right one is character.

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Or it’s a language where each number is a different instance, and != compares addresses.

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“!” in math is the factorial symbol, and 2 factorial is just 2 times 1, which is 2.

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Whereas != is commonly used in programming as “not equal to”.

So the mathematician see two factorial equals two, which is true.

The programmer sees two is not equal to two, which is not true.

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factorial

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