Math Mom: If I’ve Told You N Times, I’ve Told You N+1 Times

By Alex in Fashion, Neatorama Exclusives, Science & Tech on Aug 12, 2009 at 4:47 am

Katie would make one great math mom!
Math Mom: If I’ve Told You N Times, I’ve Told You N+1 Times

I can practically hear my mother’s voice saying "if I told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times." Well, for this shirt, we’ve boiled the adage down to its mathematical terms.

Now buy the shirt, stand up straight and go clean your room! Link

More math and geektastic science T-shirts from the newly spruced up Neatorama Online Store (work in progress, mmkay?):

- Integral of 1/Cabin = Log Cabin
- Geometry is For Squares
- Math Puns are the First Sine of Madness
- I Love Math (in Queen’s English)

Tags: math, mother, Science T-Shirts, T-shirt

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Baro
Aug 12th, 2009 at 5:25 am
My mother only tells me fifty times. 100 sometimes
Sam K
Aug 12th, 2009 at 6:20 am
That shirt doesn’t really work for me. The saying I’ve always heard was, “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times”. So the N/N+1 thing doesn’t really fit.

But maybe the saying is different for other people? I’ve never heard anyone say “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you twice”, or “If I’ve told you 5 times, I’ve told you 6 times”…

Eh…it’s probably just me.
Mike390430499
Aug 12th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Would it work if it said “If I’ve told you N times, I’ve told you N+999 times”?
Samsonite
Aug 12th, 2009 at 9:51 am
everytime I see her face I feel I should tidy up my room or do some work or something, weird.
SenorMysterioso
Aug 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Ive never heard anyone say if Ive told you once ive told you twice or anything that follows the formula of this shirt either Sam

n+999 works or n+99 as well
Lola
Aug 12th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Agreeing with Mike390430499 and SenorMysterioso. The math is wrong.
VonSkippy
Aug 13th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Katie looks like she needs a “spa day” really really really bad.
mikerbaker
Aug 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I like it. But maybe, “if I told you N times I’ve told you Nx10^3 times?”
SimonSays
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm
It’s a cyclic formula:

“I’ve you you N x ”
equals “I’ve told you N + 1 x”

So I’ve told you 1 time
= I’ve told you 2 times
(here we apply the formula again)
= I’ve told you 3 times
(and so on, until…)
= I’ve told you 1,000 times

So If N = N + 1
then N = N + 999

Therefore the formula does work to Sam K !
robb
Oct 5th, 2009 at 10:46 am
hey awesome shirt.
i think i read this somewhere before.
but it never beats being printed in t-shirts.
RG
Nov 1st, 2009 at 11:49 pm
I was going to yell at y’all till SimonSays said some intelligent words in a civil manner.

Now I can’t do the same while being angry. =[

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