1) There are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who don't.
2) e^x, sin(x) and cos(x) walk into a bar and ask for a drink. The barman says "I'm not serving you in here. The function room is upstairs"
When they go to the function room , the party was going really well but sin x noticed that e^x had been sitting in the corner by himself for some time so he translated over and said "What's wrong, e^x ?". The Exponential looked up rather sadly and said "Well, I have tried to integrate but nothing happens; I'm just left by myself".
3) Shared by a male teacher who taught in an all boys school:
In a small, boys only group a while ago, we were going through Pythag. Previously, they could all find the hypotenuse, but kept on adding when they were trying to find one of the others. We talked about WHY, and the overall feeling was that they didn't like calling the sides a, b and c. So I said that they can call them anything they like, as long as they remember which is the longest. We discussed using j,k,l (l=longest) or f,g,h (h=hypotenuse).
They still weren't keen; so I told them that when I was at school I always called the hypotenuse m for mine, and then I could call the other two anything I wanted. "Why sir?" "because no matter whose the other two were, mine was always longest!". They've never got mixed up with them again.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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I only understood the first one. :(
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because you've forgotten functions and integration (2) and pythagoras' theorem (3). These were shared in a math teachers forum by the way. Not many colleagues who r non-math teachers could get the joke too ;)
ReplyDeleteThere is a variant of the first joke that I am familiar with:
ReplyDeleteThere are only 3 kinds of people in this world; those who can count and those who cannot.