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I'll have to try that one out. My typical goal when looking for a date is to find someone who knows how to use the word "orthogonal" in casual conversation. Perhaps this method will work better.
-Dan
-Dan
Don't be so quick. If $\omega$ is the order-type of natural numbers, then $\omega+1$ is a well-defined concept. See ordinal arithmetic.anemone said:When someone says "I love you infinity plus one", I immediately love them less because of their failure to grasp basic mathematical concepts.
Deveno said:The scientists at SETI finally decoded a message which appears to be proof of intelligent life in the universe. Unfortunately, it doesn't make sense:
Itu, the Eye-Pie, and won snot.
mathbalarka said:Hello again gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed the (relatively short) time you've spent on MHB without me. Thus I inform, with regret, that you all are, once again, going to see the dark days of MHB now that I've returned. To celebrate this historical moment, I am going to start with a joke I've heard in recent times of my imprisonment in the dungeons of the Necromancer.
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I like Serena said:It took me a bit of time before I realized they misspelled Itu.
So yeah, it doesn't make sense.
Deveno said:The scientists at SETI finally decoded a message which appears to be proof of intelligent life in the universe. Unfortunately, it doesn't make sense:
Itu, the Eye-Pie, and won snot.
mathbalarka said:Wait, I don't get it. Is that referring to "e to the (power of) i pi"? I can't make sense of won snot.
Fantini said:Symbolic manipulation becomes easier after so much practice. Can you do $19,245 \times 52,091$ faster than $$\int \sec^2 (x) \, dx?$$
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I was just lucky to stumble upon a nice integral.Bacterius said:Code:19245 52091 ---------- 19245 173205 00000 38490 96225 ---------- 1002491295
Almost ;)
I subscribe to Einstein's point of view: you don't need to know everything, just that it exists and where/how to find it. In any case, it wasn't a fair comparison: $\tan(x)$ has a simple derivative that can easily be memorized, whereas $19245 \times 52091$ is rather arbitrary.
Fantini said:
Teaching math gets harder every day.