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[[Strong Bad]] periodically invents '''bogus mathematical theorems''' to illustrate his responses to fans on his [[Strong Bad Email]] show. Another was introduced to players of the third episode of [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People]]. Two more were also added in the game [[Poker Night at the Inventory]].

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* [#The_Transitive_Butt_Property 1 The Transitive Butt Property]
* [#The_Property_of_Ones 2 The Property of Ones]
* [#Coolguy.27s_Law 3 Coolguy's Law]
* [#The_Cooldratic_Formula 4 The Cooldratic Formula]
* [#Inverse_Discount_Property 5 Inverse Discount Property]
* [#Poker_Night_at_the_Inventory 6 Poker Night at the Inventory]
** [#The_Reflexive_Property 6.1 The Reflexive Property]
** [#The_Inverse_Property_of_Luck-Have 6.2 The Inverse Property of Luck-Have]

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== <span class="mw-headline">The Transitive Butt Property</span> ==

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"Don't you remember your algebra, man?"

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When the sender of email [[butt IQ]] is skeptical that any sort of IQ test exists to determine whether or not someone's butt is stupid, Strong Bad quickly refutes his ignorance with the following property:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/5/5/7/557cd3caca8a68ef3be9b393b98f1878.png]

Symbolically, this can be written as

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== <span class="mw-headline">The Property of Ones</span> ==

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"The colder it is, the more of a one it is."

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When a fan asks Strong Bad if he's ever had a [[Cold One|one that was not cold]], he responds by stating the [[property of ones|Property of Ones]]: "The ONE<sup>itude</sup> is directly proportional to the Cold<sup>itude</sup> of the ONE." Here follows a brief analysis of this statement.

We consider a One with the following properties:

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/7/c/7/7c73059520fa2b3ae395f2b4f52a8570.png] is a measure of the Oneness of the One.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/5/9/e/59e066a8320ded7dc24fa089a9516f79.png] is the temperature of the One.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/e/3/d/e3d55b71dcdd90b414115a3fbfe3e7dd.png] is the coldness of the One.

The Oneness of the One can be determined by the following simple formula:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/6/a/5/6a54a91a5857fb13d46781bee689227e.png] .

Naturally, a One has less coldness as its temperature increases, and it approaches having no coldness at all as its temperature approaches infinity. Likewise, a One approaches having infinite coldness as its temperature approaches [[absolute zero]]:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/2/9/d/29dd84f7bc684c37cd8b0b1f4c6e14d3.png] .

Thus, a One's coldness is inversely related to its temperature:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/b/4/b/b4b247b51a3ccc5b72e056a94507b222.png] .

As a result, we can rewrite our expression for Oneness in terms of temperature:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/3/4/3/343a5abfd49cfe96c3df41e076b48831.png] ,

so that [https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/4/7/7/477642acc3c72701f27589ebc4123eab.png] is a proportionality constant (in units of Oneness times [[Kelvin|kelvins]]) that uniquely determines the Oneitude of a One given its temperature. If a One is not so cold, the temperature will be higher, thus minimizing its Oneness. In Strong Bad's own words, this can be simply stated:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/9/7/5/9751a4706e8092391677953340ff21d8.png]

The inverse is also true:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/4/f/a/4faaea11f4710af7ece19a3f8b8ef792.png]

How large the proportional relation and what units are used for coldness and Oneness are undefined.

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== <span class="mw-headline">Coolguy's Law</span> ==

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"You got nothing to lose!"

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In order to assist an email sender who was having difficulty determining which [[slumber party|slumber parties]] are worth attending, Strong Bad stated an important relation between the popularity of a potential party host and the amount of fun available to be had:

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This law is illustrated symbolically by the following equation:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/c/3/8/c3839f1ac0de3175a44cef59aaa040b2.png]

This means that the less popular the host is (in a numeric form), the more fun (again in numeric form) you can have at their house. How the numbers are determined is unclear.

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== <span class="mw-headline"> The Cooldratic Formula</span> ==

Introduced in [[Baddest of the Bands]], the entirety of the Cooldratic Formula is this:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/math/0/4/b/04b4d8ff4a4624a5b030bf1b29f99579.png]

Not surprisingly, Strong Bad introduced this formula shortly after pouring [[Butter|butter]] into a fog machine full of dry ice. He also briefly acknowledges the status of his formulas as bogus by stating "I'm no mathematician".

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== <span class="mw-headline"> Inverse Discount Property </span> ==

This (unnamed) property was posted to [[@StrongBadActual|Twitter]] on <span style="display:none"></span>[[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2018|July 28, 2018]]. It states that a video game's discount is inversely proportional to how awesome it is, using ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'' as an example. Since the game was selling for 70% off its total price, it can be assumed that the game is 70% awesome.

According to a reply to the tweet, the remainder of the percent consists of "flex bux points", which may be used to add awesomeness to your life.

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== <span class="mw-headline">Poker Night at the Inventory</span> ==

Two minor theorems were included in ''[[Poker Night at the Inventory]]'', but without any equations or mathematical proofs to them.

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=== <span class="mw-headline">The Reflexive Property</span> ===

Strong Bad may say sometimes to Max and the Player when calling a bet: "I don't like either of you, but maybe calling you will cancel that out. You know, the Reflexive Property."

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=== <span class="mw-headline">The Inverse Property of [[Noun-Verb|Luck-Have]]</span> ===

Upon the Player winning, Strong Bad may say: "Yeah, you're lucky now, but you know you're gonna get run over by a truck when you leave here. It's the Inverse Property of Luck-Have."

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