I came across a post on Tumblr that said, "Math is the only place where I hear a person buying 60 watermelons."
According to Wikipedia, the suspension of disbelief "might be used to refer to the willingness of the audience to overlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with the acceptance of those premises. These fictional premises may also lend to the engagement of the mind and perhaps proposition of thoughts, ideas, art and theories." So, if the suspension of disbelief is acceptable in the realm of art, why not math? Poor math gets such a bad rap.
Fortunately, the tumblr post also came along with a joke:
Q: "I had 10 chocolate bars. I ate 9 of them. What do I have now?"
A: "Diabetes, maybe?"
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