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

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by btilly » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:54 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #4

If you do it in groups, you'd better be discrete. (Related: Analysts do it continuously, and almost everywhere.)

Mathematicians do it in groups, rings and fields.

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

#32

Post by Roedou » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:54 AM UTC

Q: What the integral of (1/cabin)dCabin?

A: Beach Hut

(Log Cabin + C)

[Maybe just the formula would fit on a T Shirt, and you get to explain it to people who ask?]

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

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Post by corin_ » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 6:58 AM UTC

I love the people in this thread giving jokes that are aimed at five year olds, rather than a math team who's previous joke was "don't drive and derive".

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

#34

Post by gnubardt » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:01 AM UTC

whats a chefs favorite triangle? isauceles

how did the abelian group get to work? it commuted

why do addition and the integers carpool? because theyre a commutative group

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

#35

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

If you want to incorporate ideas from xkcd without using any of the published comics, you could come up with your own nerd snipe and put it on the front of your shirt. Then put something on the back like "You've been nerd-sniped!"

Make sure to hang out near busy streets and train tracks when you wear it.

Re: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

#36

Post by mahmud » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 7:13 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #17

cperciva wrote: post #4

If you do it in groups, you'd better be discrete. (Related: Analysts do it continuously, and almost everywhere.)

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.