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Math Awareness Month

Posted by Zonk on from the two-plus-two dept.

An anonymous reader writes: April is Mathematics Awareness Month. Mathematics of the Cosmos is the 2005 theme: Mathematics is at the core of our attempts to understand the cosmos at every level: Riemannian geometry and topology furnish models of the universe, numerical simulations help us to understand large-scale dynamics, celestial mechanics provides a key to comprehending the solar system, and a wide variety of mathematical tools are needed for actual exploration of the space around us."

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  1. Is it...over? by -kertrats- · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we come out now?

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    1. Re:Is it...over? by zaxios · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, this is just a trick to get you to come out. The next story is about donkeys getting elected to the EU parliament and electricuting themselves with flagpoles.

      Stay hidden.

    2. Re:Is it...over? by T(V)oney · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd stay in. I hear it's going to rain Google Gulp through the night.

  2. Zonk! by PMJ2kx · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can stop posting the April Foo---oh. It's real.

    1. Re:Zonk! by Adam9 · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, it's actually fake. Go down near the bottom of the page, go to the contact page, then highlight all of the text on the page to reveal the hidden words that say, "Happy April Fools Math Nerds." Quite an elaborate prank.

  3. counting by gmailflows · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I will spend math awareness month counting. I've never tried to count as high as I could. I could keep a tally each night before sleep. Spend the month trying to count to however high a number as possible...

  4. Too late for you, Taco by zaxios · · Score: 5, Funny

    Popular Internet website "Slashdot" has ceased and desisted its run of distressingly unfunny April Fool's news entries. Trolls everywhere have reported repeated bouts of jealousy at the power of CmdrTaco to shit all over Slashdot - a capacity whose unhindered, total form had eluded them.

    1. Re:Too late for you, Taco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Young Slashdotter! Tired of unfunny April Fool's stories? I give you.... Maddox!. God bless him.

  5. Move along... by kryogen1x · · Score: 3, Funny

    nothing to see... oh wait, nevermind.

  6. Math Awareness Project for Slashdot by datafr0g · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can anyone express Slashdot as an equation?

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    1. Re:Math Awareness Project for Slashdot by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny
      It's been stated:
      The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
      Giving:
      IQ.min / slashdotters = 180 / 800000 = 1x10^-4

      And that's being charitable.

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    2. Re:Math Awareness Project for Slashdot by Infinityis · · Score: 2, Funny

      sure, you just have to transform to the hackerish domain to do it...

      SlAsh d0T
      5145h d07

      which is obviously a product between a hexidecimal number and a decimal number...

      So we get either
      238E3 in hex, which is gibberish, or
      145635 in decimal.

      Transforming back from hackerish, we get "Lasbes"

      Either this is a misspelling of "Lesbos" (which I would find highly unlikely), or it's the Klingon way of saying "Drink your Ovaltine" (secret decoder ring needed).

    3. Re:Math Awareness Project for Slashdot by chris_eineke · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, but as a crappily coded perl script... ;-)

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  7. Re:Shouldn't it be March? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pi Day only makes sense in America.

    I think we should have a second Pi Day on 31st April for all countries that put dates in ddmmyy format. That way we can have our 0314XX as well :)

  8. Possible problem: by StimpyPimp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Math+Awareness=null

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  9. CERT reports staggering drop in internet traffic by Scott7477 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "CERT team notices amazing drop in internet traffic this April 1, goes into panic mode until it is determined that the traffic drop is due to lack of Slashdot clickthroughs. Apparently, no one clicks on links to article posts on April "Fools Day." Meanwhile, Vegas bookies giving odds on first site to be slashdotted when normal posts resume, give 2 to 1 that it will be site linked by slashdot sometime in the last two weeks."

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  10. "Calculus is just a theory!" by tenzig_112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, God. Have you seen this one?
    The evolution/creationism debate has gone to the next level in a small Pennsylvania town

    Summary for the link deprived: Parents are furious with a math teacher for refusing to present Biblical cubit-based mathematics alongside higher math concepts, and not allowing children with strong faith objections to opt out of certain classes. They also want textbooks to carry warning stickers: Calculus is just a theory and not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

  11. Protests at Math Awareness Month by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    A large group of Irrational Numbers picketed this month's Math Awareness Parade. Waving reams of perforated computer paper, they screamed "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!" and spitting on passing integers.

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  12. Be careful by Nybble's+Byte · · Score: 1, Funny

    Calculus and alcohol don't mix: don't drink and derive.