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The World's Most Beautiful Equations?
music4l numb3rs asks: "'An exhibition of the world's most beautiful equations...and some of the ugliest ones too' is how the artist Justin Mullins describes his upcoming show in London. He's exhibiting a number of old favourites such as Maxwell's equations and Euler's relation plus some I've not come across such as entanglement. As for ugliness, he points to the four color theorem. My question to contemplate over the holiday period is: what do Slashdot readers think are the most beautiful equations, and the most ugly ones too?"
First thing that sprang into my head when I read the title , those horrible old chat up lines such as :
Me + you = one beautiful equation
Me + you =meyou(Meow)
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Man + woman = baby.
1 = 2
wait
$ = (size of lie x price of product x number of suckers x number of PCs x number of years of great products) - (cost of legal defense + cost of penalties + cost of political contributions + cost of Bill's house + cost of Indian programming labor) + K,
where K = a factor I shall explain but you have to pay me first.
Add the bed
Subtract the clothes
Divide the legs
Multiply
A proof more than a formula:
We all know that girls require time and money, so
Girls = Time x Money
We also know that time is money, so
Time = Money
Therefore,
Girls = Money x Money = Money ^ 2
Furthermore, it is commonly known that money is the root of all evil, so
Money = sqrt(Evil)
Therefore,
Girls = (sqrt(Evil))^2 = Evil
Hence,
Girls = Evil
42
I win!
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
Please discuss.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Equidistant from his two lazy eyes which are of different facial altitudes by one inch.