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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is useful for those trying to convey more precisely the amount of fucks they give.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's mainly limited to the American South.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You’re thinking of the fucks relatives, or also known in scientific circles as The Alabamian Constant (TAC for short).

[–] kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nice try but no proof yet if the fuckery field is irrational.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, there's definitely irrational fucks. I don't see a proof that there's indeed a fuckomorphism between C and F, though.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nah, just look at the folks over in HR. Irrational fucks to a person. Though I suppose all that means is that there are some irrational elements in the set, not necessarily that it's isomorphic to the field of complex numbers. So can we diagonalize fuckery somehow...?

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Here, I gotchu:

The phrase "you stupid fuck" Implies the existence of irrational fucks.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So what’s their opinion on the holy fuck?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Must be an angel with wings, so they can also have a flying fuck.

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[–] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The holy trinity.

Fucking God Damn, Jesus Fucking Christ and Holy Fuck.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

No idea, but I do see plenty of evil fucks every day on the news.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are definitely positive and negative fucks

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 21 points 2 months ago

This does not even scratch the surface of the possible uses and variations of fuck.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

∅ = how many i have left to give.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What in the fucking fuck?! is a good one, too. Has some real what in tarnation? energy to it.

I also learned that FUCKING GOD!! is my go-to expletive when I spilled some icecream and my daughter (3 at the time) started yelling it in the car.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

'What in the fucking fuck' implies that fucking is an injective function over the field of fucks.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Would plain old "What the Fuck" imply a null set?

[–] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No prove of irrational fucks yet tho

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of empirical evidence around.

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[–] Entitle9294@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok, everyone but me seems to get it, so I'll ask. I get everything but the last bit. What does "isomorphic with the complex field" mean? I think I know what isomorphic means from some dabbling I've done in category theory.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In means you can map every element bijectively to one from the complex field AND addition and multiplication can be performed in either field without leading to contractions, i.e. a+b=c <=> f(a)+f(b)=f(a+b)=f(c) and equivalent for multiplication. This is the part that the meme fails to consider, because nowhere is addition or multiplication for this novel field defined.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

"i do not give a single fuck" implies an additive identity fuck, and "I don't give two fucks" implies a multiplicative identity fuck. That's a start at least!

[–] Entitle9294@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'll give this some attention when time permits because this does not make things clearer, lol.

I'll start with what a field is and a complex field 🤞

[–] DisguisedJoker@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ELI5: it means that for every number there's a matching fuck and vice versa.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 3 points 2 months ago

Not only for any number of fucks there is a corresponding complex number, but the basic operations (+, -, x, /) work in the same way for fucks and complex numbers

Overall, if two things are isomorphic you can consider them «  the same »

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[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which implies the existence of a non god affected fucks.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Given the overwhelming prevalence of holy fucks relative to damned fucks, does this suggest sanctified beings get laid more?

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

I fucking love this

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

fan-fucking-tastic

[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Okay but is the fuck a monoid in the category of endofunctors ?

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The fuck transcends our ability to capture its essence

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Euler's fuck formula.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

I’ve always loved ladies who are smarter / better educated than me.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

fucking fucks implies fucks are procreating.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

What the fuck

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What the uncomputable fuck

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[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucks can also have a social hierarchy, as evidenced by the phrase:

"I don't give a single solitary fuck"

[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago

These are are simply unitary fucks. Matrix fucks with eigenvalue absolute value of 1. Surprisingly useful for quantum computing applications.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I see this comment section is full of various operations defined on fuckery. I don't think they form a field or even a ringi

Perspective changes the reality around it.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I actually tend to treat fucks like the constant C in calculus. Ideally it should cancel out entirely and you should give the minimal amount of fucks in all of your final answers.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what's fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck?

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

About tree fiddy

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I prefer to solve the Hodge conjecture

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