I'm a highly qualified mathematician, AMA

[Aide33]

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[Gojira]

pretty sure I saw similar things in middle/highschool
(and it can be done in 7 races, good luck figuring out how c:)

couldn't you do it in six? take the fastest duck from each race, then race them?

edit: nevermind, this has already been addressed

[Maxwell.]

I challenge ipquarx to a math duel. the loser is crowned really really gay

[gr8dayseth]

I challenge ipquarx to a math duel. the loser is crowned really really gay

i'll get the popcorn

[Shift Kitty]

good idea, but instead of racing 3 times, you can race the fastest of each of the 5 groups against eachother
the 2 that lose can have their whole group eliminated
and you also find the fastest of the fastest

Oh, true. That reduces it down to 9.

but that still doesnt handle the case the top 3 are in the first group

whats the 7th race?

The same as the rest of my post. As there's still just 9 ducks left.

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1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25

eliminate 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16, 17, 21, 22

 5 10 15 20 25

eliminate 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10

13 14 15 18 19

eliminate 13, 14

15 20 23 24 25

eliminate 15, 20

18 19 23 24 25

my work

[Conan]

Oh, true. That reduces it down to 9.
The same as the rest of my post. As there's still just 9 ducks left.

he uh

ipquarx answered it a couple posts later

it only takes one more  race

[Shift Kitty]

he uh

ipquarx answered it a couple posts later

it only takes one more  race

nice

[SWAT One]

What would happen if I had a kettle with non-Euclidean space-soup inside, and poured it out onto a table?

[Maxwell.]

What would happen if I had a kettle with non-Euclidean space-soup inside, and poured it out onto a table?

it would dribble into the sqrt(2) symbol

[Nicepoint]

Simplify and find y

log₄y = log₂x

[Kringleberg]

maths sucks everyone go look at my AMA, im not gay

[Maxwell.]

Simplify and find y

log₄y = log₂x

good question actually, I think this uses some log rule I've never came across before

y = x², I ended up using symbolab and I was right I have never met that log rule before. pretty neat though because it does line up exactly with that quadratic equation on desmos

[The Murderous Cop]

[Electrk.]

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xmas

i solved it eventually however

n-no

[Maxwell.]

I think the answer is 0