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Playing With: E = MC Hammer Basic Trope: Mathematics in fiction
portrayed inaccurately.   • Straight: During a mathematics class
at Tropery School, the board is covered in mathematical symbols
that don't mean anything.   • Exaggerated: The board is covered
with random numbers, letters, Greek letters, formulas from
physics, shapes, and symbols.   • Downplayed: The board has
meaningful mathematics, but it's too easy (or too hard) for the
level at Tropery School.   • Justified: Tropery School exists in
a universe where meaningful maths looks like nonsense to us.   •
Inverted:   • Subverted: The board is seen covered in nonsense
symbols, but it turns out it was a pupil that wrote it. The
board is a prop for a play in which mathematics is made fun of.
• Double Subverted: Then an actual Maths class at the school is
shown. The mathematics is just as bad, if not worse.   •
Parodied:     • Mathematics can look like every subject that
isn't mathematics (f