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Transcription: A screenshot of a tweet by a user called 'llama in a dracula cape (@LlamaInaTux)'. The text of the tweet is as follows.

Flight attendant: Do we have a doctor on board?

Me: I have a PhD in Mathematics

Flight attendant: one passenger is having a heart attack and one passenger is having an asthma attack

Me: nodding That makes two

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The formal logician next to him: "So we know there is at least one other passenger. Unless... are you feeling okay, doc?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unless it's the same passenger...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The woman IS the doctor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did he just claim that 1x + 1y = 2 without having a second equation to resolve for x and y?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Never said what two. That is an exercise left to the fellow passengers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Unrealistic, a true math phd would derive some elegant yet arcane symbolic proof using tropical geometry or something to verify that their life/ death outcomes, this event’s occurrence, and possible therapeutics indeed constitute one of the possible manifestation of this universe given ZFC axioms

But when pressed, not be able to confidently sum 1 and 1 to reach two, which is mere lowly arithmetic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, 1 + 1 = 2 is the type of comment done by an accountant, not a PhD in mathematics

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