Math gurus page 6

[canio6]

Solve this....
A businessman stops by a convenience store to buy some stuff and when he asked the clerk how much the total was, the clerk says $13.59 cents. . The businessman then takes out a $50 bill and gives it to the clerk. The clerk gives the guy the change and while the guy is busy putting away the wallet, the clerk says "that's very interesting".

What was so interesting to the Clerk?

That anyone carries cash these days.

[Conner P.]

Have you ever tried explaining natural fractals and the golden ratio and all that to a layman? It's a good way to get brainjuice on your favorite shirt from their head exploding. I tried doing that with Mom, with the most basic of natural fractals: dendritic (how a tree's branches follow the same pattern no matter how small the branches get and how you see the same pattern in the leaves of that tree.) She wandered off about the time that I showed her the veins in the leaves and held it out for her to see the comparison to the branches of the tree, muttering something about me being too smart for my own damn good.

Every now and then. I posted my amazement about e^(i*pi)=1 on facebook and people commented on me to stop being a smartass haha.

(is it bad that whenever I see a math related equals sign I want to make it "==" due to my programming background? haha...)

[naiadknight]

(is it bad that whenever I see a math related equals sign I want to make it "==" due to my programming background? haha...)

I use "!=" in my personal shorthand, as well as certain C++ operations, so I don't consider that bad at all. The one that gets me is when I can't find the "approximately equal" sign in my e-mail client. A single tilde is NOT the same as the double tilde or the tilde bar, damn it.

[Dalton]

I only eat Grassman-fed beef....

Above ≡ funny

[Dalton]

...dammit

[Paleobird]

Hermann would have appreciated the joke.

[naiadknight]

Grassmann beef in a Klein bottle?

[Dalton]

Thank you!

[naiadknight]

Thank you!

It was derivative of your comment and integral to the discussion.

Quick, what's the integral of y= 1/cabin?







Houseboat. (y=ln(cabin)+ C.)

[a_phoenix]

I went to a school where our fight song is:

E to the x
D-Y, D-X
E to the x
D-X.
Cosine, Secant, Tangent, Sine
3.14159
E-I, Radical, Pi
Fight 'em, Fight 'em, WPI!

Your school stole my school's tech cheer (except for the last two lines).