The singer called her recent album 'E=MC2', but rather than reference the famous equation, she declared the tile stood for "emancipation equals Mariah Carey times two".

Mathematician Dr David Leslie told BBC News that "The 'two' in the equation means C squared, not MC multiplied by two," he explained.

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