I don't see how the vacuously true statement 0 != 1 has any relevance here.

First, "make it 0!" - * Number *! As a "surprise factorial" (as seen in comments in this very thread making this exact joke) is a common joke in threads like this and that was the only connection I could make for this meme, having no previously knowledge of binary quirks.

Second, I don't know if you were trying to be a dick or you're just some overly wordy ass clown high on your own farts, but how on earth is me explaining what I thought a joke meant, showing why it didn't work, and then asking for help to understand it vacuous?

I assumed that you understood that the original joke was about having 0 wishes.

I also assumed that you were making a joke about factorials.

I decided to make my own joke about "!=" in your joke being misinterpreted as the programming symbol for "not equal".

My statement should be read as "0 is not equal to 1". This is a vacuously true statement, as it does not rely rely on any input, and is always true.

Shouldn't it be -1, not 0?

Depends. If the wish counter decrements after fulfilling the wish, then it works.

• Wish 1: Wish for the numeric rule to operate in 64-bit unsigned integer space.

• Wish 2: wish for 0 wishes.

• Wish 3: Wish for minus 1 Wish.

Result: now be left with 1.8446744073709551616*10^19 Wishes.

Avarage argument in any science related space:

This is why math nerds prefer to talk in a dull tone. The least bit of excitement, and your equation is suddenly wrong.

"Eh, good enough, ticket closed"

Not only is 0 != 1, but also 0! = 1.

sadly I don't know which one you mean

I always thought he was a "fake prince" because he was the prince of a country that didn't exist. Like, sure, you're the prince of this nonexistent country, see how far that gets you I guess. Otherwise Genie would either have to make new land out of nowhere somehow, or displace people who already lived/ruled in a location, which seems somewhat against the rules.

I'd kick your ass if I didn't spend all three of my wishes on churros from 7-11.

If it was impossible he shouldn't have accepted the wish. Aladdin already gets a wish rejected for not being possible. Fulfilling a wish with something different than what was wished for shouldn't be a thing.

And what does being a prince of a non-existent country even mean? That's still not a prince in any capacity (as confirmed by the story). It's just a scam.

Plus an easy way to accomplish this is just to make Aladdin the lost son of someone. It's a pretty common trope for royal kids to end up missing and raised as commoners, especially in Disney stories.

• Wish 1: "I wish that my third wish will retroactively become my first wish instead, but I retain all memories from every timeline."

• Wish 2: "I wish that every wish I've made after my first wish never happened, except for my memories of them."

• Wish 2b: Genie... i've come to bargain..." user proceeds to enforce temporal paradox type 1a 'causal-loop' until 'negotiation leveraging favorable terms' for infinite wishes without the monkeys paw BS is complete

• Wish 3: "I wish to break this cycle and return to normal linear time, keeping all accumulated memories."

Ah, turns out that all genies use the same code as nuclear gandhi.

That's a fair point. I was thinking it was kinda like being the technical prince of the Ottoman empire or some other country that no longer exists - a neat factoid to talk about, but otherwise not really relevant.

Wish1: I whish to live through various alternate realities of my choosing until I want to stop; I want to retain only the memories of it.

FTFY.

Now you've got two more wishes free for other stuff.

You're welcome.

Oh good point. For a non-benevolent genie story, I suppose being made a prince of a defunct country would work. He would be a prince, but it wouldn't be good enough for what he wants to be a prince for (a good match for the princess). Yeah I see your angle now and that makes sense.