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Fun With Mathematics!
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Just to be sure things don’t bend too far into the medieval around here, I give thee …
Hotdamn. It just cracks me up when e says she’s uncomfortable with being rounded to the nearest tenth. (And if you don’t quite get the joke, check out Fourier’s proof that e is an irrational number.)
Isn’t it peculiar and fascinating that, while we know that both pi and e are both irrational numbers, we haven’t been able to prove whether pi + e is irrational or rational?
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Who knew math could be funny!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is pretty hilarious!
Brilliant, no? I don’t know why I get such a kick out of such humor. I used to keep this little sign above my desk that said “Don’t Drink and Derive” — courtesy of Mathematicians Against Drunk Deriving.