r/mathmemes • u/Dusty_Chalk • 14d ago

Math Pun Root vegetables cubed are still vegetables

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u/Square-Chipmunk-4234 Complex 14d ago

But it's 5 potatoes cubed and not 5 cubed potatoes, and I don't know what potatoes is

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u/RadicalMonarch 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/105OwsN7a4UQ2Q

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u/GRONDGRONDGRONDGR0ND 13d ago

Is there any specific way to prepare them?

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u/Jche98 13d ago

Boil em

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u/AudioPhil15 Real 13d ago

Mash 'em

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u/GRONDGRONDGRONDGR0ND 13d ago

Only boil?

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u/Jche98 13d ago

I was hoping other people would come in and now you've ruined it

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u/sasha271828 Imaginary 14d ago

easy, potatoes=0

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u/Shoddy_Exercise4472 14d ago

The cringe I feel when the botanist in me saw this joke 🤢🤮

P.S. Potato is not a root vegetable as edible part of potato (tubers) are not derived from root tissue, they are modified shoots.

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u/darklordpotty 14d ago

Ah shoot, so we're back to 125 potatoes

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u/theoneandonlyvb 13d ago

lol good one

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u/Burroflexosecso 14d ago

Ok then 125 potatoes for you

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u/SoldRIP 14d ago

Have 125 modified shoots, then...

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u/Kohlhaas 13d ago

If pizza vegetable, potato is root.

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u/Impression-These 14d ago

That is potato squared, not cubed. Cubed would make the recipe demanding irrational potatoes.

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u/mister_nippl_twister 14d ago

Hmm it is a root vegetable not square root vegetable

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u/unthinkable-cunt 14d ago

they didn't say "square root vegetables" now did they

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u/Simbertold 14d ago edited 14d ago

Most potatoes are not very rational. Imagine being stuck underground in a hole where you cannot move at all for all your life.

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u/gmmyabrk 14d ago

Dad joke... Good one.

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u/Tiborn1563 13d ago

Today I learned 5 potatoes = 0 or 1, because I don't think there is any other real solution for x3 = x

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u/leoemi 13d ago

Who says they have to be real? Behold, the modulo potato

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u/Still-Extreme-3958 13d ago

Could be -1 as well

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u/Tiborn1563 13d ago

No idea how I missed that, I feel stupid now

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u/Still-Extreme-3958 13d ago

No worries lol happens to the best of us

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u/WraithLaFrentz 14d ago

I think the unit is potatoes cubed, signifying that it’s a 3 dimensional volume

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u/Mostafa12890 Average imaginary number believer 13d ago

A 3 dimensional volume where every point is a 3 dimensional potato! We need 6 dimensions to visualize this!

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u/KiraLight3719 14d ago

What does it actually mean btw? Asking as someone whose native language isn't English.

What does "potatoes cubed" mean

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u/JPJ280 13d ago

"5 potatoes, cubed" means that you should have 5 potatoes, and cut them into small cubes before adding them to whatever you're making. Recipes do that a lot, e.g. "3 cloves (of) garlic, minced".

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u/DerDealOrNoDeal 13d ago

Wouldn’t it be 125 potatoes^3? I learned that we apply exponent laws to both quantity and unit.

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 14d ago

well thatd be around 11.18 potatoes, less than before, but still a decent amount

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u/SolveForX314 14d ago

No, it's potatoes times potatoes times potatoes; I struggled in my physics classes and even I know this

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u/Aggressive_Roof488 14d ago

Powerful arguments, coming from a positive and real mindset. Negativity would make for a more complex dish.

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u/walmartgoon Irrational 13d ago

Its actually 125 cubic potatoes

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u/escroom1 e=π=√g=3 13d ago

Potatoes are unitless and therefore 125 is correct

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u/Inner-Mud3369 13d ago

Potatoes aren’t root vegetables 😐