Perigrina Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Edited by moderator (cmaD2006): "fiddler" word in the image, although this mod has to admit the said image was funny :). Image deleted. Is there something wrong with me for thinking this is funny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney general Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,", Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like "x" and "y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. "As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Holder declared. When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. "I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line." President Obama warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex." Attorney General Holder said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 :bravo: :lol3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysostom Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 why was 6 afraid of 7? because 7 was looking pretty homicidal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credo in Deum Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 7 8 9, but in his defense 9 8 7 first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I know there are seven deadly sins, but mathematically, there seem to be only six. 1/n sin x = ? 1/n sin x = ? six = 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I know there are seven deadly sins, but mathematically, there seem to be only six. 1/n sin x = ? 1/n sin x = ? six = 6 I haven't done any real math outside of accounting and financial math in four years now, but I'm pretty sure that this is not how you math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not The Philosopher Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I haven't done any real math outside of accounting and financial math in four years now, but I'm pretty sure that this is not how you math. You obviously haven't been keeping up with things. Scholars recently discovered Gottlob Frege's manuscript for The Foundations of Arithmetic II: The Wrath of Peano, and it has completely changed the game for logic and math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 You obviously haven't been keeping up with things. Scholars recently discovered Gottlob Frege's manuscript for The Foundations of Arithmetic II: The Wrath of Peano, and it has completely changed the game for logic and math. That is fine then. Frege is, after all, master of the bizarre and fantastical world of the maths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 (edited) I calll shenanigans. I think I found the spot where they tried to pull a fast one. Edit:Took a second look. Now I'm sure. Edited May 22, 2014 by Nihil Obstat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandelynmarie Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary... ...& those who don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I calll shenanigans. I think I found the spot where they tried to pull a fast one. Edit:Took a second look. Now I'm sure. Found it. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheresaThoma Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I think on the one above it is that they assume that a=b but for the rest of the calculation they assume that a-b is a non zero, however if a=b then a-b is zero. So basically they ignore that since a=b you should be able to substitute one in for the other and have it make sense. It looks convincing on first glance but it fall apart when it is double checked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary... ...& those who don't. No no, there are two types of people. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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