Cruel restaurant's Wi-Fi password is the answer to this ridiculous math question

This is just pure evil.
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Brian Koerber
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Some things in this world should be hassle free, and Wi-Fi is one of them.

YaYa's Thai restaurant located in San Antonio, Texas, created a brilliant way to make sure that nobody camped out at their restaurant for free Wi-Fi, but still gave its customers the ability to log on to their network. If they're a super math nerd, that is.

Redditor Joshua_Glock submitted a photo of a sign at the restaurant to Reddit, asking the site's math nerds for help decoding the ridiculous-looking equation.

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We're not even going to attempt to figure out the equation, but a few Redditors think they may have found the answer.

After all that the password is probably just "password."

Bonus: Harry Potter with hamsters

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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