• (a barrel full of monkey buttocks)^infinity = infinity
• (Jon Boy)^infinity = infinity

• (Jon Boy)^infinity = (a barrel full of monkey buttocks)^infinity

• Jon Boy = a barrel full of monkey buttocks

I love math.
 

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Posted by * (Member # 4842) on :
 


I would also like to point out this fun phrase:

saxon: I mean, monkeys make everything more fun
 

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Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
 
rotfl
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
Saxon, I thought you were an engineer. Didn't you take calculus? Apparently not, or else you would know that your last step there isn't possible.
 

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Posted by Maethoriell (Member # 3805) on :
 
..and I'm still in Algebra..*humph*
 

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Posted by Steerpike (Member # 5179) on :
 
Bravo!
Now to go find someone to share this with/at.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Since this has just been linked I want to point out that if (Jon Boy) and (a barrel full of monkey buttocks) represented numbers it actually would work.

Before someone accuses my of mooning, "oo" means infinity.

lim n-> oo (Jon Boy)^n = oo
lim n-> oo (a barrel full of monkey buttocks)^n = oo

lim n-> oo (Jon Boy)^n = (a barrel full of monkey buttocks)^n

lim n-> oo ln ((Jon Boy)^n) = ln ((a barrel full of monkey buttocks)^n)

lim n-> oo n*ln (Jon Boy) = n*ln (a barrel full of monkey buttocks)

Thus, dividing by n give us: (Jon Boy) = (a barrel full of monkey buttocks)

Hobbes
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
well, no, you can't manipulate infinities like that. Substitute 5 and 18 for jon boy and the barrel of monkeys and youll see why.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Ha, but it's hard to see isn't it?

[EDIT: Not really hard to see, but easy to use to pull the wool over people's eyes, which is one of my guilty pleasures]

Hobbes

[ January 14, 2004, 10:25 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
 

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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
 
Bad Hobbes! No biscuit!!
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
Dude, I'm an English language major who hasn't done calculus in four and a half years, and I know that those equations are bunk. And you call yourself an engineer. For shame.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Silly calcus tricks don't make me an engineer, they would make me a mathematician. Besides which, if I was trying to awe someone with my math skills I would either preform linear regression on a data set, use triple integrals to find a 3D cross-section of a four dimensional equation, or give up.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
 
Linear regression isn't awe inspiring. Its just not.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
This just seems like the right place for it:

There’s a physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician sitting at a café watching people walk by. The physicist notices two people walking into what appears to be an empty house, and then three people walking out about an hour later. The three discuss the event and try to determine what happened.

“We must’ve made a measurement error in our first count” the physicist proposes. The biologist says, “Or perhaps they reproduced while inside the house”. “Now,” muses the mathematician, “if someone walks into that house it will be empty”.



Hobbes
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 

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Linear regression isn't awe inspiring. Its just not.

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Thus option 3.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Tullaan (Member # 5515) on :
 
This has been floating around for a while now.

Also, I want to make everyone aware that the following formula in not what I actually believe in most of the time (I am married and have 3 daughters).

First, we state that girls require Time and Money.

Girls = Time x Money

And as we all know "Time is Money".

Time = Money

Therefore:

Girls = Money x Money = (Money)^2

And because "Money is the root of all Evil".

Money = square root of Evil

Therefore

Girls = (square root of Evil)^2

And we are forced to conclude that:

Girls = Evil

Edit: I found a better portrayal.
http://www.anvari.org/fun/Gender/Proof_that_Girls_are_Evil.html

[ January 15, 2004, 12:19 AM: Message edited by: Tullaan ]
 

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Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
 
And because we know that good people don't come to power be cause power corrupts, erso women rule the world.
Personally I have no problems with this at all, it just means that, I really have to watch out what I say when I talk to women...for they might off me at any time...speaking of that...has anyone se...
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
*kills Bernard*
 

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Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
Tullaan, that particular 'proof' has been posted many times here, so don't be surprised if no one responds to it

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I love simple math patterns... Here are some I've found for the first 9 integers (yes, I know that the issue here is really just addition of evens and odds, but it is still fun):

1) If you add the individual digits of the results of 1 x n, until the result reduces to a number between 1 and 9 (so 1 x 14 = 14; 1 + 4 = 5 OR 1 x 39 = 39; 3 + 9 = 12, 1 = 2 = 3), you will get the repeating series {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

2) Same as above, for multiples of two: {2,4,6,8,1,3,5,7,9,...}

3) {3,6,9,...}

4) {4,8,3,7,2,6,1,5,9,...}

5) {5,1,6,2,7,3,8,4,9,...}

6) {6,3,9,...}

7) {7,5,3,1,8,6,4,2,9,...}

8) {8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,9,...}

9) {9,...}

Yes, I have too much time on my hands...

-Bok
 

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Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
As an added feature, for integers > 9, simply add and reduce all it's digits until it equals some number between 1 and 9 (so 14 corresponds to 5), and that single digit's series is what the multiples of the original number will follow.

-Bok
 

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Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
 
Tullaan, the only problem with that equation is this:

if girls=time x money, that would mean the more time you spend with them, the less money it costs and honey - that just ain't true.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Annie

That's the best response to that 'proof' I've seen yet.
 

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Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
 
Here's one for ya:

Any good engineer (or physicist) should know that Power is equal to work divided by time:

P = W / T

However, we also know that time is money, and knowledge is power, thus:

K = W / $

or, to rearrange a bit:

$ = W / K

Thus, as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.

It's a joke equation, sure, but it models the real world so nicely.
 

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