Math Gone Weird

Contrary to the impression I may give by posting about math several times, I am not a math nerd. I managed to get through college with only one math course, statistics, which I had already taken in high school. But I had an old-fashioned grounding in the basics. Now my children think its OK to go through life without memorizing 6x7 because they can always pull up a calculator on the computer. And every once in a while, someone my age or older will say they never use math, so why badger the kids about it? Oh, I think they use math every day, its just so ingrained and simple that they don’t realize it. I’m sure you know enough math to get a laugh out of something here today.



Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)

Naked Geometry.

Two philosophy professors challenged each other to a duel... who could write the largest finite number. Philosophy? Well, it seems appropriate in a math post.

Everyday people also try the “Who can name the biggest number?” contest. (via the Presurfer)

Check this out: The number .999... equals 1. The proof is at Wikipedia. Actaully, many proofs. (via Evil Mad Scientist)

You’ve heard the term, “Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten”? The Good Reverend has worked that out mathematically.

Cherry Pi T-shirt.

The Beer Goggles effect, explained mathematically. (via Mental Floss)

Numbers from one to thirty-one. Learn all about one, then click on the calendar to learn about another number. (via the Presurfer)

What You Know About Math? (via Neatorama)

SOMEHOW IT MUST MAKE SENSE

Prove that the crocodile is longer than it is wide.

Lemma 1. The crocodile is longer than it is green: Let's look at the crocodile. It is long on the top and on the bottom, but it is green only on the top. Therefore, the crocodile is longer than it is green.

Lemma 2. The crocodile is greener than it is wide: Let's look at the crocodile. It is green along its length and width, but it is wide only along its width. Therefore, the crocodile is greener than it is wide.

From Lemma 1 and Lemma 2 we conclude that the crocodile is longer than it is wide.

NONE

(via Spudart)
--none = n + one
--one = none - n
--subtract N from none and you actually get something
--one is kinda like none, without the N
--add "n" onto "one" and you get none
--one is nothing with n
--you ain't got none with one and no n (note the logic with the double negative)

OBSERVATION

A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.

The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate."

The Biologist: "They have reproduced."

The Mathematician: "If now exactly one person enters the house then it will be empty again."

How to win free beer using geometry. (via Cracked)

Previously on Miss Cellania: Math, Math Teacher, and Mathematics.

Thought for today: We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

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Comments

[Jules]

Math is like a foreign language to me. I hate it, even though I have to use it daily. Ugh.

[Badabing]

Enjoyed your post Ms. C...it brought to mind the story of the constipated mathematician...he worked it out with a pencil. :-)

[Coll]

Never thought math would have me smiling. :-)

[Skunkfeathers]

Even those who have a hard time finding anything fun or funny in math, can't fail to find some humor in the MsC approach to numbered chuckles.

[Jamie Dawn]

This post comes at a BAD time.
I have a College Algebra test tomorrow, and then my final next week.
Math sucks!
I am glad there are THOSE people who enjoy numbers and calculating using imaginary numbers and pi and logorithims and crap, but the only thing I REALLY enjoy counting is MONEY!!!!

I like Lemme 1 and Lemme 2's way of thinking.
Makes sense to me.

You mentioned the use of the cursed calculator. For this class I'm taking, I had to purchase a graphing calculator. It is truly of Satan and should be destroyed.

[Miss Cellania]

Jamie Dawn, I will put you on my prayer list.

[LAZY Blogger]

I have got to get me one of those "CHERRY Pi" T-Shirts! Classic truly! ~ jb///

[Jacq]

ICK Math. Jamie Dawn, I'm with you on that one!

I still have math phobia dreams. It comes to where I've missed two semesters of it and have to cram in like one week to pass everything or else I don't graduate. Sometimes it's a high school dream, other times it's a college dream.