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Greatest Equations Ever
sgant writes "What is your favorite equation? This was the question asked by Physics World in a recent poll. This is also covered in a New York Times article about the same poll. Some of the equations mentioned were the simplistic 1+1=2 and Euler's equation, ei + 1 = 0. What are some of your favorite equations?"
Take a look at the username, and take a guess at mine :o)
So.. it has come to this
B*u*pi * integral of e^x
Hint: Try writing it in mathematical notation.
First we state that women require time and money:
Women = Time X Money
And as we all know "time is money"
Time = Money
Therefore by substituting Money for Time we get:
Women = Money X Money
Women = (Money)2
And because "money is the root of all evil" we therefore can state:
Money = (Evil)1/2
And Since
(Money)2 = Women
Then (Money)2 = Evil
And we are forced to conclude by substituting "women" for "(money)2" from above that:
Women = Evil
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
My favorite is the thinkgeek tshirt that says "2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2".
It is not just funny... if you consider the numbers not as integers, but as any float value with that integer as the first number, it is true.
My favorite is 0 = 0, because it's the one that most often indicates you're done with the math exercise. :-)
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Waiting for everyone to switch their calculators to binary mode...
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Gotta love motorcycles. Mmmwwhahahaaaa.
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Beauty * Brains = Constant
1 + 1 = 11
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary arithmetics and those who dont :-)
Everything = 42
b4i (square root)u ru/16
Life, The Universe & Everything = 42
I always liked this one that my calc teacher says he saw once on a students paper
Sin x / n = 6
The logic of this was that the n on the bottom cancelled out the n on the top so the result was Six. Oh well I laughed when I was shown it.
Too bad my mathematical abilities don't reach beyond spelling rude words on calculators held upside-down.
Oh well. 5318008.
There are 11 types of people:
Those who understand binary
Those that don't
And those that think they do.
Someone hates these cans.
From the Simpsons episode, "Bart the Genius"...
Teacher at gifted school:
So y = r^3/3 and if you determine the rate of change in this curve correctly, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
[The Class laughs. Bart looks confused.]
Teacher:
Don't you get it, Bart?
Derivative dy = 3r^2 dr/3, or r^2 dr, or r dr r. Har-de-har-har!
Get it?
If you don't have a math tool handy, you can use the Google calculator to check some of the equations mentioned here. For instance:
sqr(-1)
e^(i.pi)+1
1+1
That is, if you're suspicious...
The problem with Slashdot memes is that YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
x / 0 = math sucks
I'd have E=0.5mv^2 rebated into every car steering wheel in the land. And maybe a nice E display on the dashboard.
There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
I once found a remarkable proof of this fact, and wanted to share it with the world, but there was not enough space in the signatures on Slashdot to write it.
A hockey team in Edmonton, Alberta...
Of special importance to slashdot:
garbage in = garbage out
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Maybe its me, but many people seem to like the number 4. Perhaps its because lots of people are always showing others that they can count to 4 on their fingers in binary.
Ever wonder why they named 2.71... e? One guess.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
As they say, in maths things are usually named after Euler, or the first person to discover them after Euler.
e for exponential?
Thats easy:
Girls = Time x Money
Furthermore, we take the statement, "Time is money", and we get:
Time = Money
Girls = Money x Money
Girls = Money^2
Moreover, the statement, "Money is the root of all evil" means that:
Evil = the square root of money
Girls = (Evil)^1/2 (Evil)^1/2
which reduces to...
Girls = Evil
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Of course if sets aren't your thing...
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This difference in views is similar to a fundamental difference between engineers and physicists: Engineers feel their equations are a reasonable approximation of reality, and physicists feel that reality is a reasonable approximation of their equations. And mathematicians? They see no relation between the two. ;)
That's only true for horse shoes, hand grenades and 1950s chemotherapy.
"All men are mortal
:-)
Socrates is a man
Therefore, all men are Socrates."
"The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies -- that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms -- of the type so often committed by my wife."...
Monty Python
I prefer Exp[j*theta] = cos[theta] + j*sin[theta], but then again, not everyone can be as cool as electronic engineers....
Mathematical formulas indicate an understanding of such laws, so without that understanding, your cell phone wouldn't work.
Without lamps, there'd be no light.
George Bush still doesn't know if Bin Laden is alive! After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive", Osama himself decided to send George Bush a message in his own handwriting to let him know that he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message:
370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he typed it out and e-mailed it to Colin Powell. Colin and his aides had no clue either so they sent it to the CIA. No one could solve it, so it went to the NSA and then to MIT and NASA and the Secret Service.
Eventually they asked Britain's M I6 for help. They cabled the White House: "Tell the President he is looking at the message upside down."
Nonono, any researcher will tell you that. They just want to cover up the TRUTH. Those complex mathematical formulas are actually mystical runes that describe ancient spells. The formulas themselves DO make your phone work!
=Smidge=
I say, that until I saw the sum of cubes I internally denied the existance of negative numbers.
Okay I know this is slashdot and there's been some pretty nerdy posts before, but jesus
I wish I could deny the existence of negative numbers. My bank, on the other hand, insists that is how much money I have...
Here's my favorite:
First we state that women require time and money:
Women = Time x Money
And as we all know "time is money"
Time = Money
Therefore by substituting Money for Time we get:
Women = Money x Money
Women = (Money)^2
And because "money is the root of all evil" we therefore can state:
Money = (Evil)^1/2
And Since
(Money)^2 = Women
Then (Money)^2 = Evil
And we are forced to conclude by substituting "women" for "(money)^2" from above that:
Women = Evil
Can't argue with mathematical proof!
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1 Bourbon + 1 Shot + 1 Beer = :)
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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i was falling off my chair.
Oh well. 5318008.
Wouldn't it more appropriate to be: 55378008
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
S_{pD0^(42e)}pi=23^ln(volume)
Oh, crap, why don't you admit that we both just made this stuff up to sound intelligent on Slashdot?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Yep. There was a (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) footnote in one of my college math books that the tradition in mathematics was
"...to name [things] after the second person who discovered them. Because Euler probably got there first."
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.
I think I need a new reel of tape in my head then. The one I have now seems to only deal with beer and boobies.
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
For example, MS Windows.
It's what I always said, maths is in fact magic.
It would be cool with a game like final fantasy where spells were named after mathemathical concepts.
Quick! Do a Laplace transformation and invoke the Jacobi symbol!
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Along similar lines, my favorite equation is best expressed as a question and answer:
Q: What's the square root of 69?
A: 8 something.
Heh.
--Kimota!
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
There was once a football player who was teetering on the edge of academic eligibility. To help the poor guy with his physics test, the coach told him:
Remember this ryme, to get the power in a circuit:
Twinkle twinkle little star,
Power equals I squared R.
Well the school day before the exam, the football player also had a big game. He tackled alot of people and had a really good day. However, the next day he failed his test! The coach couldn't understand, so he asked the player if he remembered the ryme. The football player said:
Of course, coach:
Twinkle twinkle star in the sky,
Power equals R squared I!
There's a moral in there somewhere. :-)
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Euler's formula is what his mum fed him ...
Actually, it wasn't named by Euler, but by another man of the same name.
If vi is power, what about emacs ?
> Euler's Formula is breast milk??
No, it's
99 + 20 + 9 + 6 + 15 + 31 + 21 + 23 + 22 + 26 + 17 + 19 + 4 + 14 + 24 + 33 + 11 + 28 + 18 + 5 + 10 + 32 = 1 * (Stanley Cup)
You're welcome.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I see the unstoppable and the immovable - now what do I need to do to chop a brick?
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
A mathematical proof which explains why managers and others in authority make so much money.
From your physics course, you will recall that:
Power = Work / Time
From the world of business, we know that:
Knowledge = Power
and also that:
Time = Money,
Substituting these identities into the original equation, we get:
Knowledge = Work / Money
Solving for money, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus, Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches zero, regardless of the Work done.
What this means is: The Less you Know, the More you Make.
Taking this analysis and proof one step further, we know that:
Knowledge = Education x Time
Solving for Time:
Time = Knowledge / Education
and then substituting for Time back into the Power equation, we get:
Power = (Work x Education) / Knowledge
From which we can see that the closer Knowledge gets to 0, the more power one will have.
Note:You can also increase Power through increasing either Work or Education, but it should be noted that this approach doesn't have the same type of leverage as lack of knowledge.
This equation is also known as the MANAGEMENT equation, since it provides a clear and concise mathematical explanation of why managers, executives, politicians and most other highly unknowledgable individuals get paid so much.
Also explains why us highly knowledgable techies get paid nothing.