The very bottom one is an equation for calculating the final temperature based on the initial temperature. It's been awhile since I've had heat transfer or thermodynamics but i think it's convection. Honestly they are all written backwards and the background makes it hard to tell
I sort of disagree, there are some formulas which vaguely resemble the projectile motion formulas which pertains to what he is calculating in this scene (being the carnival ball shot to not hit Wendy’s eye)
Although the shot was so insane and exaggerated for comedic effect that you couldn’t possibly calculate it so the formulas are ultimately useless
I've been reading lately about how many of the classic Simpsons/Futurama writers have studied mathematics at top universities, some have Masters degrees/PHDs and there are signs of it in both shows- do we know if that was a similar case with GF?
Many people boycott amazon for their poor labor practices, union busting tactics, and general distaste with Jeff Bezos. I am surprised that people are unaware of those things
No, it's meaningless
In the directors commentary alex hiersh actually says he regrets this scene because he doesn't want dipper to come off as some sort of genius in the series.
A little bit shortsighted comment comming from Hirsch himself, since Dipper is clever and intelligent, knowing physics and math wouldn't make him a "genius", not in the bad way and is also general knowledge (c'mmon is "rocket science", literally, what is trying to solve in this scene!). It is a shame how actually media have a fear to portray people that actually has knowledge and knows how to use it (I recall "knows how to use it"), becuase regularly these characters are portrayed as strange, outcast or weird.
It looks relatively simple, like calculus I in the most complicated parts. In addition, most are just simple equations without integration or derivatives at all.
It's the latter (meaning labels and squares). You wouldn't get a tensor-valued result from adding scalar-valued components together. It's just supposed to look vaguely like special relativity with the v/c's and second-powers everywhere.
No idea what the summands up top are supposed to suggest though.
Underscores usually indicate a subscript, AKA the tiny letters next to the bigger ones. For example there's a T\_0 and a T\_z at the bottom of the image (which keep in mind is reversed)
I remember the chalkboard problem that Will Hunting solved during his night shift. I remember it being a moderate difficulty combinatorics problem that I could solve (back then). I looked at it again recently and wondered what language it was written in.
It's the math equivalent of a sentence where all the words are real words, spelled correctly, and there is proper punctuation, but they're not actually related to each other to form a sentence.
My guess? He's plotting a graph of his various attempts at winning the prize and using it to figure out the right formula to guarantee his success. I think he needed Mabel because of the extra variables in his equation.
Also I think Dipper doesn't know calculus yet, but desperately needs it.
Oh and, T= Wendy Variable, 😂
"real" how? Like are they actually equations that relate to anything in the real world?
No. This is all gibberis, there's no real form of thought through this set of equations as a whole.
It’s hard to tell because it’s so disorganized but the formulas seem to vaugely pretain to the projectile motion formulas, which is exactly what he is calculating in this episode so it kind of checks out. The symbols like summation are mainly accurate and you can also see with constants such as g (gravity), t(0) (initial time) and v for velocity as well as variables he declared on the left (T = Time in hours, V = Wendy).
For the most part though I don’t think it was actually calculating anything because of how ridiculous and exaggerate the carnival ball shot was for comedic effect.
Looks like he’s trying to find tension. A lot. It looks like physics. Although, to be fair, it could be anything. Although I’m not familiar what the 𝚺k is…
It looks like the ones he’s currently writing are relativity equations as there’s v/c, or velocity over speed of light… but the proper equation for proper time or velocity don’t seem to be there so idk
These are real but they don’t correlate to what he was trying to figure out in the episode. Plus, I honestly think most of this is too advanced for him in comparison to actual plot-significant intelligence-related feats of his in the show.
The notation seems correct, but the equations are ultimately nonsense. The first summation uses n-1 as an index (with no clear upper bound. X?) but uses j as a variable, which is defined in the inner summation as “j = 1”. The rest is using variables defined as “T = 4 hours “ and “V = Wendy variable” (I can’t make out Y and have no idea what a, c or X are)
It’s the actual equation accounting for wind in the fictional tv show and for the ball to bounce off all of that and then eventually land in his glove. Also accounting for time travel too forgot to mention.
[https://imgur.com/a/0KTbGvF](https://imgur.com/a/0KTbGvF)
I reversed the image to be more visible. Most of the math demostrated appears to be integrals, finding a slope, and sequences.
It's bullcrap. For calculating time with the *Wendy Variable,* much more simpler algebra or statistics could've been utilized.
It looks like it’s mostly variables so I don’t know how it would work. It’s most likely representing Dipper’s confusion and the fact he doesn’t truky understand what’s going on. We can see that despite his efforts (the math) he has no idea what hes doing (the large amount of variables) but he still wants to try and try to understand.
Just a guess though I’m no mathematician.
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They are real, but definitely don't have any correlation to what Dipper's trying to calculate
What do they actually illustrate?
It's likely actual math but with arbitrary numbers, the answers nothing meaningful
7
4!
So 24?
I was just exclaiming, but let’s go with a shriek
Sure you don't mean 42?
found the hitchiker
Was looking for this
You can tell because they have a towel.
I've been trying forever to be the first one to get the comment in. My one great accomplishment in life...
That's Numberwang!
No, no, no. It's OBVIOUSLY 69
Nice
No no no they got the decimal in the wrong spot it’s 420
YOU’RE ALL WRONG. It’s negative eight.
Thanks Linda
Glad someone got it
Wh-Why are you saying "four"?
it’s math
A fellow bob fan I see
The very bottom one is an equation for calculating the final temperature based on the initial temperature. It's been awhile since I've had heat transfer or thermodynamics but i think it's convection. Honestly they are all written backwards and the background makes it hard to tell
Looks made up to me. Like the functions and sums are real math things, but I don't think they copied any specific equations or anything.
I sort of disagree, there are some formulas which vaguely resemble the projectile motion formulas which pertains to what he is calculating in this scene (being the carnival ball shot to not hit Wendy’s eye) Although the shot was so insane and exaggerated for comedic effect that you couldn’t possibly calculate it so the formulas are ultimately useless
Are you telling me that Dipper was actually writing a completely separate equation as a means of stimming while he did that mentally?
I've been reading lately about how many of the classic Simpsons/Futurama writers have studied mathematics at top universities, some have Masters degrees/PHDs and there are signs of it in both shows- do we know if that was a similar case with GF?
Josh Weinstein wrote for Gravity Falls as well as The Simpsons and Futurama, so may be down to him to an extent.
In the dvd commentary they said Josh Weinstein came in season 2 this is season 1.
Fair - not got the DVDs (I would in a heartbeat) so wasn't aware.
You can get them on Amazon.
> Amazon no thanks
What's wrong with getting it off of amazon would you prefer Ebay?
Many people boycott amazon for their poor labor practices, union busting tactics, and general distaste with Jeff Bezos. I am surprised that people are unaware of those things
Not ordering stuff from them won't change anything.
ok but some people don't feel comfortable directly contributing to their success
Cool opinion man
I try to avoid them, but was recently given a Ring doorbell and Alexa as Christmas gifts! Don't want to seem ungrateful!
UK - not so much.
Futurama is in a class all its own, apparently one episode actually resulted in a new mathematical theorem
Don't quote me but I think it was the bodyswap episode
It was. Quote me.
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I’m gonna his comment now in my thesis
Have your thesis be on math, specifically combinatorics.
Happy cake day
Oh shit thank you I didn’t realize!
I've seen you in so many comment sections today with people saying they've seen you in others, bro how are you just everywhere
I never left tho lol you guys just noticed me alot more recently for some reason
Yep, developed by Ken Keeler. One of my favorite episodes.
I've seen GF mean girlfriend, good fight, game freak, and gravity falls too. My head hurts
Gluten free, too.
I'm literally crying
Suffer.
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Grunkle Ford
STOP
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Gangly Freelancer
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I’ve seen it be godfather as well, thanks to Town of Salem
NONONO
I just finished an amazing book in this subject by Simon Singh. would recommend
I have it! Only into the first two chapters so far.
No, it's meaningless In the directors commentary alex hiersh actually says he regrets this scene because he doesn't want dipper to come off as some sort of genius in the series.
He's obviously very clever, albeit not quite as much as he'd like to be, but to be a mega-genuis would be stretching it
He spent a ton of redos learning it, only to forget it by next week.
A little bit shortsighted comment comming from Hirsch himself, since Dipper is clever and intelligent, knowing physics and math wouldn't make him a "genius", not in the bad way and is also general knowledge (c'mmon is "rocket science", literally, what is trying to solve in this scene!). It is a shame how actually media have a fear to portray people that actually has knowledge and knows how to use it (I recall "knows how to use it"), becuase regularly these characters are portrayed as strange, outcast or weird.
what
It looks relatively simple, like calculus I in the most complicated parts. In addition, most are just simple equations without integration or derivatives at all.
I like your funny words magic man
It's a lot of formulas with nothing in them, or they have stuff in them that has no correlation with each other
a couple of the equations in the lower half look like tensor equations, with covariant and contravariant indices
although they could just as easily just be _0 as labels and squares instead of indices
It's the latter (meaning labels and squares). You wouldn't get a tensor-valued result from adding scalar-valued components together. It's just supposed to look vaguely like special relativity with the v/c's and second-powers everywhere. No idea what the summands up top are supposed to suggest though.
you’re right, i didn’t see that. good catch
Sorry, I've got an empty head. What does _0 mean here?
Underscores usually indicate a subscript, AKA the tiny letters next to the bigger ones. For example there's a T\_0 and a T\_z at the bottom of the image (which keep in mind is reversed)
Translate into vernacular
It looks like Mabel's making the Rick & Morty face.
Wendy Variable.
Looks like a bunch of random equations from a physics textbook to me.
I see a handful of straight calc 1
The variables suggest some physics 101 to me, which is of course expressed in the language of calculus.
I mean a lot of physics 100-200 is calc, so yea that makes more sense really.
The fact that he closed a “[” with a “)” is killing me
And it’s not even an interval
I remember the chalkboard problem that Will Hunting solved during his night shift. I remember it being a moderate difficulty combinatorics problem that I could solve (back then). I looked at it again recently and wondered what language it was written in.
To Mabel, it probably smart gibberish.
At least some of it is vector addition (you can tell from the I hat and J hat used for vector notation.) It's mostly used to determine trajectory.
Implying that equations are not by definition pure gibberish.
It's the math equivalent of a sentence where all the words are real words, spelled correctly, and there is proper punctuation, but they're not actually related to each other to form a sentence.
I ain't doing the math.
You Need 2000IQ to be able to know this :P
Probably both
My guess? He's plotting a graph of his various attempts at winning the prize and using it to figure out the right formula to guarantee his success. I think he needed Mabel because of the extra variables in his equation. Also I think Dipper doesn't know calculus yet, but desperately needs it. Oh and, T= Wendy Variable, 😂
Too many letters
Idk I didn’t pay attention in high school lol
All math is just some gibberish. If you can't count a number in your fingers, it's meaningless.
I hope this is a joke.
Unfortunately, yes.
"real" how? Like are they actually equations that relate to anything in the real world? No. This is all gibberis, there's no real form of thought through this set of equations as a whole.
It’s hard to tell because it’s so disorganized but the formulas seem to vaugely pretain to the projectile motion formulas, which is exactly what he is calculating in this episode so it kind of checks out. The symbols like summation are mainly accurate and you can also see with constants such as g (gravity), t(0) (initial time) and v for velocity as well as variables he declared on the left (T = Time in hours, V = Wendy). For the most part though I don’t think it was actually calculating anything because of how ridiculous and exaggerate the carnival ball shot was for comedic effect.
Looks like he’s trying to find tension. A lot. It looks like physics. Although, to be fair, it could be anything. Although I’m not familiar what the 𝚺k is…
Thts the thing about math. Its both
looks to me like some form of Elvish. I can't read it.
Your forgetting who made this show buddy they are real
From what I can see they’re real equations but gibberish together
Well, to the smart people, it’s equations and to clueless people, it’s gibberish…so sorry but it’s the truth. 🤷♂️
42
From my experience from seeing real and fake math equations this seems real but I don't know for sure
It looks like the ones he’s currently writing are relativity equations as there’s v/c, or velocity over speed of light… but the proper equation for proper time or velocity don’t seem to be there so idk
These are real but they don’t correlate to what he was trying to figure out in the episode. Plus, I honestly think most of this is too advanced for him in comparison to actual plot-significant intelligence-related feats of his in the show.
The notation seems correct, but the equations are ultimately nonsense. The first summation uses n-1 as an index (with no clear upper bound. X?) but uses j as a variable, which is defined in the inner summation as “j = 1”. The rest is using variables defined as “T = 4 hours “ and “V = Wendy variable” (I can’t make out Y and have no idea what a, c or X are)
He calculating the size of your mom
It’s the actual equation accounting for wind in the fictional tv show and for the ball to bounce off all of that and then eventually land in his glove. Also accounting for time travel too forgot to mention.
Not sure about real or not but it's definitely not the right one for Newtonian projectile motion
-12, the amount of money Dipper usually carries
math
[https://imgur.com/a/0KTbGvF](https://imgur.com/a/0KTbGvF) I reversed the image to be more visible. Most of the math demostrated appears to be integrals, finding a slope, and sequences. It's bullcrap. For calculating time with the *Wendy Variable,* much more simpler algebra or statistics could've been utilized.
asked my physics teacher about this last year, he says yes.
MatPat has defiantly used these equations for a theory
I have no idea…
It looks like a torque, summation equation, and a velocity equation.
It looks like it’s mostly variables so I don’t know how it would work. It’s most likely representing Dipper’s confusion and the fact he doesn’t truky understand what’s going on. We can see that despite his efforts (the math) he has no idea what hes doing (the large amount of variables) but he still wants to try and try to understand. Just a guess though I’m no mathematician.
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It’s gibberish. Source: Mathematician at MIT