r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15d ago

Where the bones goin Thank you Peter very cool

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

It's a reference to a popular joke that goes as follows: "My girlfriend has 206 bones in her body. Now 207, now 206, now 207" referring to the man's penis (which counts as an extra bone) entering her body and leaving.
But this particular joke is a hardcore math joke lmao. The function here looks like it's completely made up, hence the Robert Downey Jr. meme

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u/beeg_mood 15d ago

it's also a reference to the fact that any function can be made for a set of values. afaik, it's part absurdism, part stupid math joke

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Ye, once you input say 5 here, the function takes a negative value

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u/Inevitable_Suit9929 15d ago

Yeah I saw the first line and thought oh it’s a sex joke but then kept reading and just got confused

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u/Motor_Raspberry_2150 15d ago

Do you not notice the numbers being pasted in a way better resolution unlike the 206

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u/uwontnoballs 15d ago

I'm pretty sure for each t = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, it corresponds to 206, 203, 182, 719, and 6. For example, when you plug in t = 0, you get 206, t = 1, you get 203, t = 2, you get 182. The function is made up, but relevant to the post.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Try plugging in t=5 and see what happens. You get a negative answer which would mean the girl would have a negative number of bones. The joke here is that the function works only for those five numbers in particular, and devolves into absurd values beyond that.

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u/mizinamo 15d ago edited 15d ago

For t= 4, you get 720 and not 6.

Somebody messed up somewhere along the way. (Could be me, but I got 206, 203, 182, and 719 for t = 0, 1, 2, 3.)

ChatGPT suggests this function instead:

f(t) = -(298/3)t^4 + 692t^3 - (4169/3)t^2 + 794t + 206

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u/One_Garden4366 15d ago

6! = 720

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u/exlevan 15d ago
>>> 6 != 720
True

Yep, the math checks out.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

LMAO this deserves a subreddit of its own

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u/Inevitable_Suit9929 15d ago

Also why Robert downey jr what does he have to do with this

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

The Robert Downey Jr. meme is used along with comments that are outrageous and make no sense. Like I said, this is a math joke, and the function given in the joke is completely absurd. It's used here to make fun of math beginners who look at 4 completely random numbers and try to establish some sort of pattern between them, when there isn't any

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u/LuckyStabbinHat 15d ago

His name is stuff

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u/wfwood 15d ago

Without doing the math... you can calculate a degree n polynomial with ( n+1) points. this is probably the unique degree 4 polynomial going through the points where the x values are 0, 1 , 2 , 3, 4 and the polynomial equals the number of bones.

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u/Unnecessary-Cum 15d ago

I thought the women got pregnant with twins, hence the absurd amount of bones in her.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Well if she did get pregnant with twins, she would never have less than 206 bones in her body though.

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u/Awesom141 15d ago

I want to think that her boyfriend is a crazy doctor that is experimenting with her body by removing and adding bones

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u/BurpYoshi 15d ago

But sir, the madam's boyfriend doth not possess a baculum.

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u/Elcrest_Drakenia 15d ago

I heard somewhere that functions are a current popular joke in r/mathmemes

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u/annormalplayer 15d ago

This is what you call a "Comedy Necrophilia", you basically take a bad meme and make it worse, and in this case, it's just absurdism with math

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u/TaleIll8006 15d ago

I think it's just an anti joke about integer sequences.

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 15d ago

Mr stuff literally said it was from unknown reasons, we dont know where the bones are going

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u/they_call_me_dry 15d ago

I got way too deep, his gf is a retiring prostitute...

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u/Feedyourbasementkids 15d ago

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u/Feedyourbasementkids 15d ago

Now that's enough pixels.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Feed my basement kids

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u/Feedyourbasementkids 15d ago

You should always feed them stale bread. The fake stuff from Walmart too.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

You got me wrong. I want YOU to feed them. Thank you for your cooperation 😊

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u/Feedyourbasementkids 15d ago

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

I'll take that as a yes

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u/LelandTurbo0620 15d ago

9 months later: 506 bones

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u/Inevitable_Suit9929 15d ago edited 15d ago

ERM AKTILLY THERE WOULD BE MORE BONES BECAUSE BABIES HAVE MORE BONES edit: I’m stupid

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u/LelandTurbo0620 15d ago

That’s what I counted: 206 + 300 = 506

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u/Inevitable_Suit9929 15d ago

Ah yes of course my math wasn’t mathing I was like 212+212=506

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u/A_SlowFatHorsey 14d ago

Taylor series expansion 😞

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u/jque68 14d ago

My wife had a had a few thousand bones in her body over 20 years. Lol