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Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by younata » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:33 AM UTC

troymc wrote: post #14

xkcd comics are already licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 license. That's probably all you need for a math team t-shirt.

upvoted it (at this time, it cancelled out a downvote).

No idea why it was initially downvoted, it's good information to point out. So long as you don't make money off the shirts, it's ok to use xkcd comics.

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by hansman » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:35 AM UTC

Physicist, pastor and mathematician on the top of a skyscraper. They are asked to jump precisely into the swimming pool on the ground. Phsycist calculates wind, distance, perspective, jumps and lands in the pool. Pastor meditates, prays, focuses, jumps and lands in the pool. Mathematician calculates a beautiful parabel, jumps and goes straight up to the sky. What happend? Oh well, he made a sign flaw :)

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by sahillavingia » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:36 AM UTC

A sahillavingia original:

Q: What did the difficult cartesian-coordinate system tell his problem-solver when he wanted to visit Antartica?

A: You should go polar!

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by bosky101 » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:36 AM UTC

here's one from the last decade.

Q. what did the math teacher say when she saw tennis star monica seles?

A. isosceles

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by zackattack » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:38 AM UTC

   Math Club

then put a picture of a hot chick, and some MDMA

then Transcendental Numbers

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by kaiser_pelagic » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:39 AM UTC

Q: what did the zero say to the eight? A: nice belt!

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by dcbell » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:40 AM UTC

troymc wrote: post #11

TamDenholm wrote: post #2

Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip? To get to the same side.

This joke might be funnier if the answer is: To get to the other side. (The mathematicians will know that the chicken's quest will fail. Then they'll feel sorry for the chicken...)

But the non-mathematicians will JUST give you a weird look, rather than laughing and then giving you a weird look.

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by ronnoch » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:45 AM UTC

Math Overflow had a joke thread a while back: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1083/do-good-math-jokes-ex...

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by biju » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:46 AM UTC

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.

more: http://www.metafilter.com/76377/Two-mathematicians-walk-into...

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by ronnoch » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:47 AM UTC

kingsidharth wrote: post #3

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9! (7 ate 9)

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2040