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Maths jokes!

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  • #212
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    But the original joke says, infinite amount of money, 1/n as n goes to infinity diverges. 1/(n^2) doesn't, it converges. I don't see why the original joke isn't funny...


  • #213
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    You're getting confused with the series 1/2^n.


  • #214
    Colours
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭Colours


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  • #215
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    One day, Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9."
    A man who had just joined the disciples looked very confused and asked Peter: "What, on Earth, does he mean by that?"
    Peter replied: "Don't worry - it's just another one of his parabolas."


  • #216
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    The barman said I am sorry we don't serve neutrinos

    A neutrino walks into the bar.


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  • #217
    BlueBaron
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭BlueBaron


    there was a explosion at the pie factory.

    3.14159265 found dead.


  • #218
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    My local pie shop is doing a special 3.1 for 2


  • #219
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Stolen from YLYL2:pac:

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  • #220
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    Learning the Fibonacci Series is as easy as 1 1 2 3!


  • #221
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I'll stop at nothing to avoid using negative numbers.


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  • #222
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ciano6 wrote: »
    Why was six afraid of seven?
    Because seven eight nine.

    Why are jokes in Z_8 not funny?

    Because 7 0 1.


  • #223
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    there are 10 types of people in the world...

    those that understand trinary,

    those that dont,

    and those that confuse it with binary


  • #224
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I prefer the term ternary.

    The Russians actually build such a computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun



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  • #225
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    20111204.gif

    (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #226
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    I failed so many maths tests that I cant even count.


  • #227
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    (sqrt(cos(x))*cos(400*x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.4)-(4-x*x)^0.1


  • #228
    Richard Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Richard Cranium


    Let ε < 0.


  • #229
    Captain Graphite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Captain Graphite


    Richard Cranium wrote: »
    Let ε < 0.

    World's shortest maths joke! :D


  • #230
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    Richard Cranium wrote: »
    Let ε < 0.

    Hahaha I just imagined myself trying to explain that joke to someone that doesn't study maths, it would be impossible!


  • #231
    Richard Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Richard Cranium


    What do mermaid maths teachers wear?
    Algebras.


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  • #232
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    "This is a one line proof...if we start sufficiently far to the left."





    If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
    -- Isaac Newton

    In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
    -- Gerald Holton

    If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
    -- Hal Abelson

    Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
    -- Gauss

    Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists stand on each other's toes.
    -- Richard Hamming

    It has been said that physicists stand on one another's shoulders. If this is the case, then programmers stand on one another's toes, and software engineers dig each other's graves.
    -- Unknown


  • #233
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    jcCPW.jpg


  • #234
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    According to some news reports, a teacher in the USA was fired after he gave his students some Maths problems that he had downloaded from a home schooling website. The plagiarism wasn't the why he was fired: no, he was fired after some of the parents saw the questions. Sample:
    John's father gave him 1359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John's friends came for his funeral the next day. John's grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John's friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?
    The owner of the site has since taken the problems down and posted an apology/explanation/not-my-fault message, but one sheet can still be downloaded (PDF) that includes this:
    Brian loves deformed chickens. Last weekend he bought 770 mutant chickens from a mad scientist. When he brought them home, he noticed that he had twice as many hairy chickens as bald chickens, and twice as many wooly chickens as hairy chickens. How many more wooly chickens than bald chickens did he have?
    Maybe the parents were appalled, but kids these days might actually be in to that sort of thing ... :pac:

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #235
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


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  • #236
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    dangerousdivision.png

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #237
    krafty
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭krafty


    TheAlmightyZeus wrote: »
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    I don't get it. How come 8 can see him but neither 2 nor 3 can? Am I missing something? How sleep-deprived can I be?


  • #238
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    krafty wrote: »
    I don't get it. How come 8 can see him but neither 2 nor 3 can? Am I missing something? How sleep-deprived can I be?

    "i" is imaginary so it can't be sleep deprived.


  • #239
    krafty
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭krafty


    Jernal wrote: »
    "i" is imaginary so it can't be sleep deprived.

    :p hah

    Seriously though, what's so special about 8?


  • #240
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    krafty wrote: »
    :p hah

    Seriously though, what's so special about 8?
    It's not 8 it's nought
    wearing a belt


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  • #241
    krafty
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭krafty


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's not 8 it's nought
    wearing a belt

    Ah now I get it - thanks.


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