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Asked how his pet parrot

Stumbleupon Review Asked how his pet parrot died, the mathmatican answered “Polynomial. polygon.” — Lumberjacks make good musicians because of their natural logarithms. — Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. — “The integral of e to … Continue reading

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A biologist, a statistician

Stumbleupon Review A biologist, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist are on a photo-safari in africa. They drive out on the savannah in their jeep, stop and scout the horizon with their binoculars. The biologist : “Look! There’s … Continue reading

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Q: What quantity is

Stumbleupon Review Q: What quantity is represented by this ? /\ /\ /\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /______\ /______\ /______\ … Continue reading

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Q: What’s the title of this

Stumbleupon Review Q: What’s the title of this picture ? .. .. ____ .. .. \\===/======\\== || | | || || |____| || || ( ) || || \____/ || || || || || || || || || || || … Continue reading

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My geometry teacher was

Stumbleupon Review My geometry teacher was sometimes acute, and sometimes obtuse, but always, he was right.

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Ya’ hear about the geometer

Stumbleupon Review Ya’ hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch the rays and became a tangent ?

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Several students were asked

Stumbleupon Review Several students were asked the following problem: Prove that all odd integers are prime. Well, the first student to try to do this was a math student. Hey says “hmmm… Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 … Continue reading

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Lemma: All horses are the

Stumbleupon Review Lemma: All horses are the same color. Proof (by induction): Case n=1: In a set with only one horse, it is obvious that all horses in that set are the same color. Case n=k: Suppose you have a … Continue reading

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What is “pi

Stumbleupon Review What is “pi”? Mathematician: Pi is the number expressing the relationship between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. Physicist: Pi is 3.1415927 plus or minus 0.000000005 Engineer: Pi is about 3.

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The ark lands after The

Stumbleupon Review The ark lands after The Flood. Noah lets all the animals out. Says, “Go and multiply.” Several months pass. Noah decides to check up on the animals. All are doing fine except a pair of snakes. “What’s the … Continue reading

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