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[โ€“] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Total pedantry, but in that scene I don't see why she just couldn't say a quick sentence about what she was actually solving. Like, I know she was distracted about X or Y but it could have been cool just to do something like "the denominator approaches zero so the limit doesn't exist!" at the end of that thought.