Two mathematicians in a pub/restaurant/whatever. Mathematician 1 goes to the whatever-you-call-it. Mathematician 2 tips the waitress generously and tells her, "When I'll ask you a mathematical question, please answer '1/3 x³.'" Mathematician 1 comes back. Mathematician 2 bets with mathematician 1 that ordinary people know much more about mathematics than you'd suppose. Then, he calls the waitress and asks her, "What is the integral of x² dx?" She answers as instructed, "1/3 x³." While mathematician 1 is baffled and trying to figure out how she could have known that, she turns around, and says, "+ C."
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
What does a DJ say when he runs out of drugs?
"How can any sentient being bear this shitty music?!"
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Well, you know, there are still people who think "going upstairs for some coffee" involves drinking coffee, so I'm not surprised that people whoosh at that one.
When my (then) girlfriend asked me to go upstairs for some coffee, we had a nice time. But then she undressed herself and laid down on her bed. Of course I realized that she was tired, so I went home.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
What does a lawyer call their daughter?
[spoiler]Sue[/spoiler]
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
That's the typical user's way of handling interfaces: it's mechanically of about the same size, and I can push it in with a medium-sized mallet, so it fits.
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RE: Quantum Computing?
Quantum WYSIWTF: You can never tell how a post will look like before you actually render it.
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
You'll find the answer on that cot within a sec.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
I accidentally discovered a similar flaw in a friend's 2000 Dodge Dakota. Oops.
Somewhere on the Internet I read about a guy whose Diesel engine wouldn't stop running after taking out the key. One day, on a long journey, he wanted to impress the guys in the car behind him and showed them the key holding it out of the window. They tried to warn him with flashing the headlights and even text the guys in that car, but too late - he didn't remember that the steering wheel lock is independent of a running machine before they reached the next road bend.
(Fits here, as another bad idea)
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RE: The FSF's statement on Windows 10
Do you burn down your house with your family inside before you buy a new computer?
Where's the problem, as long as he has two backups of the family members he wants to keep?
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RE: Easier Than Fizz Buzz - Why Can't Programmers Print 100 to 1? (article)
Did really nobody think of
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i=100; while(i) {log(i--)};
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for (i=100;i;) log(i--);
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RE: Windows 10 search ignores exe files
@fbmac said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
the best windows ever made (3.11) didn't have search
It didn't NEED search, there was always the MS-DOS shell at your fingertips - like dir /s filenamepattern
Which happens to be the way I use most often for searching files / folders under Windows 7 ff.
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RE: The first rule of Bug Reproduction club is...
I'd suspect nice try to get you to fix a bug on their system.
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RE: Several === one
WTF? Several is not the same as one, but a subset. Has always been so in mathematics.
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RE: Patterns of Primes
@accalia said:
There are patterns in primes, far more than we would expect in a truly random set.
Ah, the No True Random defense. Your still wrong. That the human brain, pattern detector par excellence, can detect patterns in randomness does not show that said randomness isn't random.
Time to drink another Ouisghian Zodah do trown oru dispare wee carn'd proofe de pattrons we regnize.
Has anyone showed any larger than atomic scale observations of quantum randomness? What's the largest apparent random effect?
Interesting thought from a physics book: How long would it take a pencil with a sharp tip to tip over if it was positioned exactly balanced on its tip? (According to quantum mechanic, there's an uncertainty in the angular momentum around an axis, in this case, we take one of the horzontal ones.)
1764839266 is actually not a prime number.
Did you try all possible bases?
[spoiler]It's always even, no matter the base (as long it's greater than 9) reason: [spoiler]even number of odd figures[/spoiler][/spoiler]
[spoiler] tags don't nest very well...
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RE: And THIS kind of BS is EXACTLY why I have NoScript ON by default, EVERYWHERE
Would there be any choice of language that would NOT be raisinable?
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RE: ...six impossible things before breakfast...
Nope. How is it different from climbing Mount Everest with bad equipment in the 60s? Or Wingsuit base jumps?
Good point.
Or, like the people that tried to sail around the Earth.
After all, playing, even with our lives, is inherent in our genes. And of tremendous advantage to the adaptation of our species.
Anyway, the people climbing the Mount Everest in those times got the best equipment that was available and they could afford.
The linked-to article doesn't state whether those tourists knew that the guide was unauthorised, or at least were in a position where a sane person had enough evidences to have deliberately shut their eyes to not estimate that very probable.
If an average sane person wouln't suspect the guide unauthorised, it would be a sad accident, if the guide was e. g. much cheaper than the official ones, those tourist would IMNSHO very well qualify for a Darwin Award.
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tragedy is the right word
Yes. Young an beautiful and full of life, and of course dumb.
I keep forgetting that the word "tragic" is demoted to the meaning of "sad".
In the original sense, it related to the Ram (Greek tragos) Festivals, then to the classical theatre where a human challenges the deities or Fate and gets put down in turn.
If this was a classic tragedy, the guide would become an atoner for the rest of his lifetime.
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RE: ...six impossible things before breakfast...
Just some other Darwin Award candidates, so what.
I wonder if tragedy is the right word. Maybe, because they challenged the powers above them and duly failed.
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RE: Carbon free sugar.
I've looked up that brand of sugar.
The stupid thing is the "carbonfree" label.
What they mean is that it has a zero environmental carbon dioxide footprint, so it actually does make
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RE: Carbon free sugar.
That post is already 2 (disco)hours old and still nobody said it is obviously the discosame picture? Maybe a bit disco(co)mpressed.