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[–] 41 points 1 month ago (1 child)

My recipe says to dice them, but my hand is getting sore drawing all the dots.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    This is going over my head, I need a math tuber.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    5 cubed as in 5 to the power of 3

    The response is clever because to reverse it you say you're looking for the cube root of 125

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Interestingly, the page says regular potatoes are stem tubers, differentiating them from and acknowledging the existence of root tubers, which includes sweet potatoes.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This is where precise language is important! The recipe should have specified 5 cubic potatoes, to distinguish them from the 1-dimensional kind

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    That post is fantastic.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Which root though?

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  • The profile discrepency makes this even funnier.

    Real "streets vs sheets" energy here.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Potatoes are not vegetables, they are tubers; the leafy green matter is the vegetable.

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  • in you apply quantity calculus you can see why this argument is nothing more than a joke, became the potato is in the base of the exponent operation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    125 potatoes seems on target for military purposes.

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