Programmer and Mathematician Fire Joke

A programmer & a mathematician were in a hotel for a conference when a big fire started in their floor. The programmer's room was perfectly fine but the mathematician room ended up completely burned. When the firefighters asked the programmer what happened, she told them she used an extinguisher, as "it was the logical thing to do." When asked the same thing, the mathematician told them that she went to the bathroom, opened the tap, saw the water running, and closed the tap... to which she concluded: "a solution exists."

A text joke describes a programmer and a mathematician whose hotel rooms catch fire. The programmer uses an extinguisher because it is the logical thing to do, while the mathematician merely observes running water and concludes that a solution exists, parodying mathematical reasoning and the phrase “a solution exists.” It is shared as a reaction to overly abstract or impractical problem-solving. EN: A text joke describes a programmer and a mathematician whose hotel rooms catch fire. The programmer uses an extinguisher because it is the logical thing to do, while the mathematician merely observes running water and concludes that a solution exists, parodying mathematical reasoning and the phrase “a solution exists.” It is shared as a reaction to overly abstract or impractical problem-solving.

• @gentoomemes / 12547 2024-07-28