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23 Jul 2013, 12:50 pm

I tried teaching someone about pKb values the other day. It's pretty basic.



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23 Jul 2013, 7:08 pm

Imagine a right triangle with sides 8 and 6. On the hypotenuse, there is an x. The question is:

Find x. <--------There it is.



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23 Jul 2013, 10:20 pm

Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving along in a car. Heisenberg's at the wheel. All is well until they get stopped by a policeman.
They pull over, and Heisenberg rolls down his window so he can talk to the policeman.
"Hey, I think you where speeding, sir. Did you have any idea how fast you were going?", the policeman asks.
"No," Heisenberg replies, "but I knew exactly where I was."
Confused and made newly suspicious by this strange remark, the policeman says he's going to search the trunk, and goes around to the back of the car to do so. Opening it, he finds a dead cat.
He comes back around, this time to the passenger side of the car, and asks Schrodinger:
"Where you aware there was a dead cat in your trunk?"
"Well, no," Schrodinger admits, "but I am now."
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A Higgs boson walks into a church. The priest sees him.
"YOU'RE not allowed in this church!" the priest yells. "You call yourself the God Particle? Why, that's sacreligious! I can't believe you would even think--
"But, sir," the Higgs interrupts, defensively, "without me, how can you expect to have mass?"


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24 Jul 2013, 8:41 am

Schrodinger's cat knocked over Russell's Teapot, and made such a startling clatter that Occam cut himself with his razor!



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24 Jul 2013, 8:47 am

How come mathmaticians do not distinguish between Christmas and Halloween?



Because they know that Oct 31 = Dec 25.



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31 Jul 2013, 8:34 am

There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand ternary, those who don't and those who mistake it for binary.



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31 Jul 2013, 12:16 pm

i said, "you're irrational".

Pi said, "Get Real".



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31 Jul 2013, 3:25 pm

Gremmie wrote:
Laar wrote:
ursaminor wrote:
DilbertIRL wrote:
There are 10 kinds of people.

Those who understand binary and those who don't.
This is actually wrong, because the first is 2^0 and everything to the power of zero is one, so there is 1 type of people. Actually you should say there are 01 types of people because the second is 2^1 and that is 2.


no it´s quite right, as 2 is 10 in binary, you shouldn't think about what is the first and what is the second


Apparently it depends if you're using a big-endian or little-endian system or something. To general non-coding plebs like myself, 10 is read as [(1*(2^1))+(0*(2^0))] therefore the joke works. If I've got this wrong apologies, my main source is listening to an argument at a pub quiz.
I don't see how Big-endian or Little-endian could have any effect on this unless your bytes are only 1 bit each. Even then, it would apply only to the order on which you stored the 1-bit bytes on a computer. Regardless of how you store them on the computer, you would write them the same.

(Don't make the mistake of assuming that bytes are always 8 bits.)



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31 Jul 2013, 7:36 pm

Dhp wrote:
Imagine a right triangle with sides 8 and 6. On the hypotenuse, there is an x. The question is:

Find x. <--------There it is.


10. It is a 3, 4, 5 triangle on steroids.



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31 Jul 2013, 8:00 pm

While not a joke, I always liked this quote:

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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



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31 Jul 2013, 8:01 pm

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02 Aug 2013, 10:19 pm

What do you call two doctors playing golf?

A paradox.

A woman who majored in dance and math education told me that on when I was in college. I miss her as a friend.



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04 Aug 2013, 9:50 am

And if they go hiking in the woods, and disappear they're "a paradox lost"!



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04 Aug 2013, 3:04 pm

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