Ask HN: Any good math jokes? • Hacker News Board

mahmud wrote: post #36

patio11 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Materials scientists do it with latex. Biochemists do it with animals. When civil engineers do it, the earth moves. Software engineers do it all night long.

mathematicians do it in theory (pretty old one)

Does that mean physicists do it in practice?

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by tkahn6 » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:40 AM UTC

There are three types of mathematicians. Those who can add and those who can't.

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by rcfox » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:41 AM UTC

nayanshah wrote: post #42

marcuswestin wrote: post #12

There are two hard problems in computer science. Naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

Make that 10 hard problems. Similar to - There are 10 kinds on people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Every base is base 10.

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Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by rcfox » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:47 AM UTC

Q: What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?

A: You can't cross a vector with a scalar!

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Post by mr_twj » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:51 AM UTC

biju wrote: post #29

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...

Or its sibling: a genie grants both a mathematician and an engineer their greatest desire to be located at the end of the room given that each step they take towards it is half the distance than their last. The mathematician throws his arms up and yells "Impossible! I'll never reach it," and storms out of the room. The engineer just smiles and says to the genie, "I can get close enough."

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Post by anigbrowl » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:55 AM UTC

Eat the pie, I; my new swan is nothing.

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Post by DavidSJ » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:59 AM UTC

kingsidharth wrote: post #3

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

I think you mean (ate 7 9). Don't feel bad, infix notation can creep up even on experienced Lisp programmers.

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Post by anigbrowl » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 8:01 AM UTC

sinc wrote: post #13

Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10x)(13i)2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x]. (From http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html )

This is by far the best t-shirt candidate.