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Party Ideas For Math Nerds?

Posted by kdawson on from the three-piece-suits dept.

rbf writes "A girl I like at my university, a graduate student in mathematics, will be having a birthday next month. She had thought of throwing a nerd-themed party — show up with tape on your glasses, pants hiked up, etc. However, she decided against it because most of her friends are math nerds and wouldn't even have to dress up! So my question for the community is: What fun party ideas would appeal to a group of mostly math-major nerds?"

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  1. Three things. by Adambomb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alcohol. Barry White. Intercourse.

    Trust me, its great for the rest of us.

    While you're at it, watch Barton Fink.

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    1. Re:Three things. by palantir · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dont forget to serve pi with the coffee

  2. I have a few ideas... by Izabael_DaJinn · · Score: 5, Funny
    See who can recite Pi the furthest in Hexadecimal (3.243F6A8885A308D31319...)

    Play pin the tail on the integer?

    Dress up as your favorite nonlinear equation.

    Start a drinking game where everyone increases their drinks parabolically. (or alternatively: everyone drinks when someone says "Archimedes.")

    TP the English department utilizing the golden spiral....

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  3. Imaginary by mrbamboo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imaginary party, you don't even have to show up!

    1. Re:Imaginary by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, unless you're a square...

  4. Refreshments idea by count_zero451 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Serve Pi instead of cake?

  5. They already have everything they need. by raehl · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's going to be a GIRL there. And she's not deflatable. It's going to be the best math nerd party EVER!

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    1. Re:They already have everything they need. by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

      And she's not deflatable.

      Well then how do you get her into the suitcase?

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    2. Re:They already have everything they need. by Mikkeles · · Score: 4, Funny

      'Well then how do you get her into the suitcase?'

      Use the inverse of the Banach-Tarski theorem (iterate as needed).

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  6. Re:Dude! Drinking games by Reinsarn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't drink and derive!

  7. Re:A drinking game called Buzz: here's how it work by Chris+Shannon · · Score: 5, Funny

    a multiple of 7 (49, 24, etc..), then you must say "Buzz", Protip: If you make it above a number that meets all 3 rules, start over because you have missed the point of a drinking game. Something tells me that you wouldn't make it above 24.
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  8. Re:Okay, stop right there ... by lisaparratt · · Score: 5, Funny

    If that's way off base, at least here's a party idea: have everyone come dressed up as a liberal arts student. :) But where would you find enough McDonalds uniforms at such short notice?
  9. Re:Blackjack and hookers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    blackjack and hookers...you want to screw the blackjack?

  10. Re:Scrap Barry White by backwardMechanic · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're mostly maths nerds - have you any idea how complicated those drinking games are going to get?

  11. Re:Scrap Barry White by caramelcarrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not that hard, you just pick a card and drink half the sum of the prime factors in fingers. If you get it wrong, you have to stand on your head and recite pi backwards (as hard as it sounds.)

  12. Re:Scrap Barry White by peccary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reciting pi backwards gets easier and easier as you go on, but getting started is a bitch.