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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.
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.
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.
There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
A hockey team in Edmonton, Alberta...
Of special importance to slashdot:
garbage in = garbage out
Jolyon
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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.
us {all,your,base}
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. ;)
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 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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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.
For example, MS Windows.
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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