Mathematical fruits
Sep. 21st, 2005 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyOh boy - MathWorld now has a Mathematical Humor section, linking to any article with math jokes. Here are all the "mathematical fruits" jokes it includes:
Q: What's purple and commutes?
A: An Abelian grape.
Q: What is lavender and commutes?
A: An Abelian semigrape.
Q: What's purple, commutes, and is worshipped by a limited number of people?
A: A finitely-venerated Abelian grape.
Q: What's purple, round, and doesn't get much for Christmas?
A: A finitely presented grape.
Q: What's yellow, linear, normed, and complete?
A: A Bananach space.
Q: What is green and homeomorphic to the open unit interval?
A: The real lime.
Q: What is purple and all of its offspring have been committed to institutions?
A: A simple grape: it has no normal subgrapes.
Q: What's sour, yellow, and equivalent to the axiom of choice?
A: Zorn's lemon.
Whee. So I decided to take the Latin placement test, well, pretty much just for the hell of it, as I really had no intention of taking any more Latin, but even though I pretty much just bullshit my way through the entire test, I somehow managed to place out of 3 quarters of Latin. I asked at one of the orientation meetings whether that meant I had fulfilled the foreign language requirement, and I was just told that each language department has a different idea of what constitutes "competency" - in some, you would have to actually take a test as well as get through the classes - so I have no idea whether I have or not.
I think I had more to write, but I can't remember and I'm hungry.
-Sniffnoy
Q: What's purple and commutes?
A: An Abelian grape.
Q: What is lavender and commutes?
A: An Abelian semigrape.
Q: What's purple, commutes, and is worshipped by a limited number of people?
A: A finitely-venerated Abelian grape.
Q: What's purple, round, and doesn't get much for Christmas?
A: A finitely presented grape.
Q: What's yellow, linear, normed, and complete?
A: A Bananach space.
Q: What is green and homeomorphic to the open unit interval?
A: The real lime.
Q: What is purple and all of its offspring have been committed to institutions?
A: A simple grape: it has no normal subgrapes.
Q: What's sour, yellow, and equivalent to the axiom of choice?
A: Zorn's lemon.
Whee. So I decided to take the Latin placement test, well, pretty much just for the hell of it, as I really had no intention of taking any more Latin, but even though I pretty much just bullshit my way through the entire test, I somehow managed to place out of 3 quarters of Latin. I asked at one of the orientation meetings whether that meant I had fulfilled the foreign language requirement, and I was just told that each language department has a different idea of what constitutes "competency" - in some, you would have to actually take a test as well as get through the classes - so I have no idea whether I have or not.
I think I had more to write, but I can't remember and I'm hungry.
-Sniffnoy
