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Re: funny math stuff - Is this true, Katie? Message #1 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 21 Feb 2007, 9:22 a.m. Dear Someone, I'm not sure that we can get any more OT than this, so I'll keep my answer brief: woman / man = wo[e] -kt

Re: funny math stuff - Is this true, Katie? Message #2 Posted by Paul Dale on 21 Feb 2007, 6:54 p.m., in response to message #1 by Katie Wasserman Reminds me of this old one: The plural of spouse is spice. - Pauli

Re: funny math stuff - Is this true, Katie? Message #3 Posted by cfh on 22 Feb 2007, 6:37 a.m., in response to message #2 by Paul Dale Teacher: What is 2k + k? Student: 3000 Why do you rarely find mathematicians spending time at the beach? Because they have sine and cosine to get a tan and don't need the sun! Teacher: "Who can tell me what 7 times 6 is?" Student: "It's 42!" Teacher: "Very good! - And who can tell me what 6 times 7 is?" Same student: "It's 24!" "That math prof's marriage is falling apart!" "No wonder! He's into scientific computing - and she's incalculable!" Trigonometry for farmers: swine and coswine... Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary components. There are 10 kinds of mathematicians. Those who can think binarily and those who can't... Q: How can you tell that Harvard was planned by a mathematician? A: The div school is right next to the grad school... "Students nowadays are so clueless", the math professor complains to a colleague. "Yesterday, a student came to my office hours and wanted to know if General Calculus was a Roman war hero..." Three statisticians go hunting. When they see a rabbit, the first one shoots, missing it on the left. The second one shoots and misses it on the right. The third one shouts: "We've hit it!" cheers cfh

Re: funny math stuff - Is this true, Katie? Message #4 Posted by Dave Shaffer on 22 Feb 2007, 2:03 p.m., in response to message #3 by cfh I can't resist: What do you get if you cross an alligator and an elephant? |alligator| |elephant| sin(theta) Why can't you cross a mosquito and a mountain climber? You can't cross a vector with a scaler!

Re: Funny math stuff Message #5 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez on 24 Feb 2007, 1:09 p.m., in response to message #4 by Dave Shaffer A panel of scientists were summoned to witness an experiment: A couple (man and woman, both young) enter a small car, which is parked at some distance from the observation point. Some time passes, some noises are heard, and soon a doctor comes saying that three human beings had just left the car. The panel members' opinions: The biologist: They have had a baby. The physicist: There should have been a third person, hidden in the car from the beginning. Otherwise, conservation laws would have been violated. The mathematician: The car will become empty again when the next person enters it.

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