Bad Math Jokes

[Ivan Seeking]

In fact, it turns out that the set of all infinities [having different cardinalities] is an infinite set. But until just recently we didn't know the cardinality of the set of all infinities. Someone finally came up with a proof that it is the one we all know and love - countable infinity.

 

[jbriggs444]

In fact, it turns out that the set of all infinities [having different cardinalities] is an infinite set.

Are you sure? Sounds like a proper class to me. As stackexchange confirms.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Are you sure? Sounds like a proper class to me. As stackexchange confirms.

Hmmm, that is what I read in something respectable [not sure exactly what now but probably Scientific American]. Maybe the proof was later found to be flawed. I thought it was a done deal.

 

[DaveC426913]

 

[Baluncore]

Forget all those women, I am still trying to understand how to interpolate, or read a log scale that changes by a factor of 100 per cycle. 1, 4, 9, 16 ... 100.

 

[DaveC426913]

Forget all those women, I am still trying to understand how to interpolate, or read a log scale that changes by a factor of 100 per cycle. 1, 4, 9, 16 ... 100.

I knew someone would catch that...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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There was a basketball player who took a lot of grief when he made the following comment [approximately]: I've slept with hundreds of women, and I loved them all! I remember snickering as well.

After ten years of being single again, now I understand!

 

[collinsmark]

Forget all those women, I am still trying to understand how to interpolate, or read a log scale that changes by a factor of 100 per cycle. 1, 4, 9, 16 ... 100.

If I'm not mistaken, since there are 9 lines per decade, and each decade increases by 100, the number corresponding to each line is $100^{\frac{1}{9}} \approx 1.668101$ multiplied by the previous line's corresponding number.

1.000000
1.668101
2.782559
4.641589
7.742637
12.91550
21.54435
35.93814
59.94843

100.0000
166.8101
278.2559
464.1589
774.2637
1291.550
2154.435
3593.814
5994.843

and so on.

(Edit: Nevermind. This would be the case if the lines on the chart were equally space. But they're not.)

 

[DrGreg]

If I'm not mistaken, since there are 9 lines per decade, and each decade increases by 100, the number corresponding to each line is $100^{\frac{1}{9}} \approx 1.668101$ multiplied by the previous line's corresponding number.

1.000000
1.668101
....

That not how log scales work.

The axis numbers still increase arithmetically within each "decade", in this case by an increment of $\frac{100-1}{10-1} = 11$, so

1, 12, 23, 34, 45, 56, 67, 78, 89, 100.

 

[DaveC426913]

I considered whether it would be better to use the log grid correctly, but I decided it would have made it less readable.

Turns out, the only readers who are into this kind of humour are also very particular about getting the math correct.

Someone else wondered why - since it's a linear function - it was rendered as logarthymic at all.

 

[nuuskur]

I thought he was going to rescue everyone, that's no fun though!

Thought the objective was to get everyone killed in the least amount of effort

 

[256bits]

to more understandable math jokes............

A king and his castle is surrounded by 2 armies, and it is a stalemate, as the kings army is just as large as the other two. Still being seiged and all that is not pleasant.
His squire, an ingenious fellow, says that he will dual with the other squires for dominance.
The other two kings, and two squires snicker, as they see conquest. It is now definitely two against one.
The game is afoot.
The king's squire gets a pot, mixes oil and a goat's intestines, and a bunch of other stuff, cooks it over a raging flame to make a thick soup oozing over the top.
He flings a rope over a tree branch and hoists the pot in the air.

The other two armies seeing that are aghast.
They have no chance of winning the challenge. They pack up and retreat to their lands.

After all.
A squire of the high pot'n'ooze is equal the sum of the other two squires.

Ha ha - from a sci fi space movie, from a guy joking just before they are attacked.

 

[phinds]

 

[nuuskur]

to more understandable math jokes............

Pythagoras would be proud :D

 

[WWGD]

Light brown/yellow dog:
"So, pie(sic) is an infinite number, and its expansion contains copies of every book ever written? "
Dark dog:

 

[WWGD]

At the Math lounge:
" They're giving away free groups!!"

 

[mfb]

Some group theorist had a lecture where he wrote down a new group and named it after an audience member: TED talk, at 16:30.
"That's your new symmetrical object, you are now immortal."

The speaker had no idea who she was. Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics.

 

[WWGD]

Haven't read yet any ' yo mamma' jokes you can always make up: Yo momma so ugly, she does not retract to a CW-Complex through a Simplicial Map.

 

[mfb]

Never ask a mathematician to rate something. They think 6 is perfect.

 

[statdad]

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Since the coin is making the gap in the wrench smaller than 7/16 shouldn't it be subtraction instead of addition?

 

[jack action]

Since the coin is making the gap in the wrench smaller than 7/16 shouldn't it be subtraction instead of addition?

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/bad-math-jokes.990191/post-6398071

 

[nuuskur]

Never ask a mathematician to rate something. They think 6 is perfect.

that's good :D

Spoiler

perfect numbers

 

[jack action]

 

[berkeman]

From Facebook:

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Baluncore]

Another two digits and they could have rounded it off with the zero.

 

[jack action]

 

[TonyStewart]

Never ask a mathematician to rate something. They think 6 is perfect.

Always get a Sr. Engineer to tell the rookies what is perfection. ( Release it at 90% of the "nice to haves" in 50% of the time)

Good specs and good design that meet spec, even if it has flaws that could be done better. That's a 10. If not revise the spec.

Tweaks come with Revisions under the guise of "Cost Reductions" Rated a 10 Rev A

But as an engineer, I never knew 6 was perfect. Imagine all the time I wasted trying to be 10.

Oddly enuf, all the consecutive perfect number divisors including itself follow Mr. Fibbonachi's sequence.

 

[DrClaude]

 

[jack action]

 

[jack action]

 

[DrClaude]

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Shouldn't that be "square glass"?

 

[Ibix]

Shouldn't that be "square glass"?

No, because then it would be a square root beer, not a root beer squared.

 

[jack action]

I cosine this joke. Even though it is a bit of a tangent, I like the angle: