Mathematical Emotions: Explagony
Explagony: realizing, mid-explanation of your breakthrough, that you're 100% wrong.
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Explagony: the sinking realization, as you attempt to explain your breakthrough to someone else, that you're actually 100% wrong. "And then you multiply the… um…" "Wait…" "It was all a lie…"