Ironically, digging my statement ... you make me look dumb. It was a f**king joke aimed at all the idiot respones that get hundreds of diggs. Anything over 100 diggs means a negative IQ. It does not apply if you have negative diggs.
I can explain mine quickly... Almost all of higher mathematics is taking equations that you can't solve and converting them, by jumping through a lot of mathematical hoops, into the form of equations that you can solve. Pretend like you couldn't do multiplication, so that every time you saw 5x6 you'd have to write: 6+6+6+6+6 and do the addition. It would suck, wouldn't it? Well, that's what advanced math is like. What sucks even more is when you jump through all those hoops and at the end find out there was a much simpler way, which is where this joke lies...The mathematician in the story ignores the obvious solution in favor of going through a tedious process to reach the solution he's already proven. Every math student has done this at some point and felt stupid about it, so they're really only laughing at themselves. :)(Normally I'm against explaining jokes, but nerdy jokes are an exception.)
rustintableNov 19, 2008
I really love this joke.
stupotaceNov 19, 2008
Is a philosopher just another way of saying unemployed?
tsk05Nov 19, 2008
@ latrosicarius - I believe MoeMoeMoe has replied for me (and what he said is correct).
xsledgewickNov 20, 2008
Yeah, it'll always be less than two, but nobody wants their beer overflowing, so thank God for infinity.
saucy05Nov 20, 2008
Someone please explain both berkan's and mike's stories.
Closed AccountNov 20, 2008
Ironically, digging my statement ... you make me look dumb. It was a f**king joke aimed at all the idiot respones that get hundreds of diggs. Anything over 100 diggs means a negative IQ. It does not apply if you have negative diggs.
miketwo345Nov 23, 2008
I can explain mine quickly... Almost all of higher mathematics is taking equations that you can't solve and converting them, by jumping through a lot of mathematical hoops, into the form of equations that you can solve. Pretend like you couldn't do multiplication, so that every time you saw 5x6 you'd have to write: 6+6+6+6+6 and do the addition. It would suck, wouldn't it? Well, that's what advanced math is like. What sucks even more is when you jump through all those hoops and at the end find out there was a much simpler way, which is where this joke lies...The mathematician in the story ignores the obvious solution in favor of going through a tedious process to reach the solution he's already proven. Every math student has done this at some point and felt stupid about it, so they're really only laughing at themselves. :)(Normally I'm against explaining jokes, but nerdy jokes are an exception.)
thehumanthingzFeb 12, 2010
yea OR Sigma(1)-n log(2) Sigma'(1)+1/2 n^2 (log^2(2) Sigma''(1)+log^2(2) Sigma'(1))+1/6 n^3 (-Sigma^(3)(1) log^3(2)-3 log^3(2) Sigma''(1)-log^3(2) Sigma'(1))+1/24 n^4 (6 Sigma^(3)(1) log^4(2)+Sigma^(4)(1) log^4(2)+7 log^4(2) Sigma''(1)+log^4(2) Sigma'(1))+1/120 n^5 (-25 Sigma^(3)(1) log^5(2)-10 Sigma^(4)(1) log^5(2)-Sigma^(5)(1) log^5(2)-15 log^5(2) Sigma''(1)-log^5(2) Sigma'(1))+1/720 n^6 (90 Sigma^(3)(1) log^6(2)+65 Sigma^(4)(1) log^6(2)+15 Sigma^(5)(1) log^6(2)+Sigma^(6)(1) log^6(2)+31 log^6(2) Sigma''(1)+log^6(2) Sigma'(1))+O(n^7)=2