Good old math team
Jan. 8th, 2005 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoy"Hitler married his cousin, but then he killed her... so that kind of negates the incest." -Fan
"That should be an internet quiz: Which Russian premier are you?" -Vlad
Chris: The problem with this problem is that the stupid guess is right.
Tom: ...OK, I have no idea what the stupid guess is.
Chris: Well, x³+y³ is 10, x²+y² is 7, so, arithmetic progression, x+y is going to be 4.
Tom: That's not even a stupid guess. That's a numerological guess.
Mr. Holbrook gave us a stupid calculus competition today. It's exactly like those things we did in Dr. Vijaya's class. One of the questions had the following choices:
A) 2a
B) -2a
C) 2 ³√a
D) ³√(6a)
E) nota
"What the hell is nota?" Tom finally asked. "Not a?" I suggested. Chris suggested it was miscoded, and maybe it was supposed to be a'... which is meaningless here. I was thinking the same thing, I said, only I was thinking of it as a-bar (can't really do that in HTML without using Unicode, TTBOMK), as in complex conjugate... which here would just be a, as it's a real problem. Finally Tom realized that it stood for "None of the above". How awful.
(I may have some of the people wrong there.)
-Sniffnoy
--
"Office supplies are necessary for LIFE! They separate us from
single-celled protozoa! With brightly colored plastic index tabs!"
-Cecilia, Nukees
"That should be an internet quiz: Which Russian premier are you?" -Vlad
Chris: The problem with this problem is that the stupid guess is right.
Tom: ...OK, I have no idea what the stupid guess is.
Chris: Well, x³+y³ is 10, x²+y² is 7, so, arithmetic progression, x+y is going to be 4.
Tom: That's not even a stupid guess. That's a numerological guess.
Mr. Holbrook gave us a stupid calculus competition today. It's exactly like those things we did in Dr. Vijaya's class. One of the questions had the following choices:
A) 2a
B) -2a
C) 2 ³√a
D) ³√(6a)
E) nota
"What the hell is nota?" Tom finally asked. "Not a?" I suggested. Chris suggested it was miscoded, and maybe it was supposed to be a'... which is meaningless here. I was thinking the same thing, I said, only I was thinking of it as a-bar (can't really do that in HTML without using Unicode, TTBOMK), as in complex conjugate... which here would just be a, as it's a real problem. Finally Tom realized that it stood for "None of the above". How awful.
(I may have some of the people wrong there.)
-Sniffnoy
--
"Office supplies are necessary for LIFE! They separate us from
single-celled protozoa! With brightly colored plastic index tabs!"
-Cecilia, Nukees
