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Found here, there, and everywhere on the web and in email forwards from 1987.
Alternate methods of mathematical proof
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Why do mathematicians get Halloween and Christmas confused?
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What’s nonorientable and lives in the sea?
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Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?
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What’s yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice.
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What’s purple and commutes?
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What’s a polar bear?
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What’s your favorite thing about mathematics?
Yeah, me neither.
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This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined.
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Life is complex. It has both real and imaginary components.
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A topologist is a mathematician who can’t tell their doughnut from their coffee mug.
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I don’t want fractions being taught in my child’s classroom. If they’re not improper, they’re downright vulgar.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don’t, and those who knew this joke was going to be in ternary.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.
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There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can’t.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete information,
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What’s 49 divided by 98? Well, just cancel the 9s!
49 4 1 ── = ─ = ─ 98 8 2
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Just a fun little math limerick:
12+144+20+3sqrt(4)
────────────────── + (5*11) = 9^2+0
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“How is this a limerick,” you ask? Well...
A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.
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Yeah, I used to think it was just recreational... then I started doin’ it during the week... you know, simple stuff: differentiation, kinematics. Then I got into integration by parts... I started doin’ it every night: path integrals, holomorphic functions. Now I’m on diophantine equations and sinking deeper into transfinite analysis. Don’t let them tell you it’s just recreational.
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lim 8
x→0 ─ = ∞
x
∴
lim Z
x→0 ─ = N
x
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