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  •  Awful vector math joke (5+ / 0-)

    Q: What do you get when you cross an owl with an elephant?

    A: Owl elephant sin(theta)

    Q: What do you get when you cross an owl with a mountain climber?

    A: Can't do it, a mountain climer is a scaler.

    Big Joe Helton: "I pay Plenty."
    Chico Marx: "Well, then we're Plenty Tough."

    by Caelian on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:55:32 PM PDT

    •  Very nice (2+ / 0-)

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      bubbanomics, psycho liberal

      My personal favorite math joke was a pick up line that was popular among the engineers: "I wish I was a derivative, so I could lie tangent to your curves."

      It made me laugh every time I heard it.

      •  My favorite math joke: The Calculus Joke (0+ / 0-)

        There is a mathematician who has lunch at the same diner every day and is quite friendly with one of the waitresses who always serves him.

        One day he says to her: "Tomorrow I want to play a joke on a friend, and I'm going to ask you a question.  I want you to answer 'X squared over two'.  Got it?  'X squared over two'."

        She says "fine", and the next day he brings his friend to lunch.  While they're eating, he says: "Nowadays, everybody knows calculus.  Here, let me show you."

        He signals the waitress and when she comes over he asks: "What's the integral of X dx?"

        She answers: "X squared over two... plus a constant."

        Big Joe Helton: "I pay Plenty."
        Chico Marx: "Well, then we're Plenty Tough."

        by Caelian on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:12:03 PM PDT

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      •  Software Engineers prefer integration (0+ / 0-)

        and taking the area under the curves using  interpolation based on fast spherical transforms for the multilevel fast multipole method.  Yeah, google that you engineer...that kind of proof may give you an identity crisis.

        Title Tweak Suggestion:
        Hillary's Math is about Long Division
        Since she's going to pro-long the campaign and divide super-delegates right into the convention sub-floor, determined to leave Obama with only the remainder, keeping the dividends to herself.

        Now, how to work on that triangulation technique she's so good at...something about the area of the high-potent-news and squaring off the opposite sides.  

        But I think it's more illuminating to identify a possible philosphy vector in use. Consider triangulation as a derivative of the Hegelian thesis|antithesis->sinthesis process applied to politics. Whoa...wait...we've heard of something like that before.

        When life gives you wingnuts, make wingnut butter!

        by antirove on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:30:14 PM PDT

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    •  heh. I like it! nt (0+ / 0-)

      (-8.00,-7.85) "Jesus Christ was the first nonviolent revolutionary." --S. Stills

      by bubbanomics on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:06:41 PM PDT

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    •  Ha! (0+ / 0-)

      "How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."
      ~Herbert Spencer~

      by Eidolon on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:29:16 PM PDT

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