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

Alex


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! http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?math-mom-told-you-n-times-tshirt-pid477.html

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

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- I Love Math (in Queen's English)


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. :)
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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 !
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