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>Heed this /sci/

calculus: it could actually save your life!

>> No.6025694

>>6025668

I did have a black dude in the west end of Louisville ask me who they knew how much neutron star matter weighed. I guess I looked like I would know that sort of thing.

>> No.6025697

it is an axiomatic fact that nerd have the bizzare-est sense of humor

>> No.6025701

>>6025697
>it is an axiomatic fact
why?

>> No.6025705

>>6025701
it is a fundamental property of nerd -- its part of the nerd definition. if a nerd is really funny in not a nerd-way, then he not a nerd. axiomatic fact.

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6025711

things and stuff

>> No.6025714

here's another case of calculus saving your life: During the Russian revolution, the mathematical physicist Igor Tamm was seized by anti-communist vigilantes at a village near Odessa where he had gone to barter for food. They suspected he was an anti-Ukrainian communist agitator and dragged him off to their leader.

Asked what he did for a living, he said he was a mathematician. The sceptical gang leader began to finger the bullets and grenades slung round his neck. ‘All right,’ he said, ‘calculate the error when the Taylor series approximation to a function is truncated after n terms. Do this and you will go free. Fail and you will be shot.’ Tamm slowly calculated the answer in the dust with his quivering finger. When he had finished, the bandit cast his eye over the answer and waved him on his way.

Tamm won the 1958 Nobel prize for physics but he never did discover the identity of the unusual bandit leader.

– John Barrow, “It’s All Platonic Pi in the Sky,” The Times Educational Supplement, May 11, 1993

>> No.6025721

>>6025705

Does this mean The BIg Bang Theory or not? Because sometimes I find it somewhat amusing, but sometimes it just annoys me.

>> No.6025722

>>6025711
Lel.

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>> No.6025774

>>6025668
>>6025711
>>6025769

These pictures were taken off reddit./

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6025790

just took this from a test I wrote today. not exactly relavent, but ima post it here.

>> No.6025839

>>6025774
I got it off /sci/ so bugger off.

my thermo prof loves making weird exams.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t7UA97k9flT2zYFv-IyzE9_AiuytmXKBde2JJztZkfc/edit

>> No.6025923

>>6025790

God damn that handwriting is ugly

>> No.6026491

>>6025668
IFLS posted this...Also banging joke

>> No.6027071

>>6025774
Another anon who discovers that there is no more OC on 4chan...

>> No.6027683

>>6027071
4chan literally harvested ebaumsworld and somethingawful, pasted epic le maymays on it, said 9fag stole it and sold all the profits to scientology. Unfuckingbelievable.

>> No.6027690

>>6025711
Shearing is just applied parallelograminisation

>> No.6027701

>>6027683
TFW BU is is patenting excerpts from my dissertation without permission and selling it to apple.