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 Post subject: Math Area Discussion
PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:14 pm 
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Below are relevant bits of the chat log from tonight relating to the proposed math area. Note: " = "

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Naborr (norm): ryme, I was talking to Whuknose, we think TH could benefit from a math themed area
Naborr (norm): with unnatural logarithims
Naborr (norm): and integration...BY PARTS
Ryme (norm): Math, eh? I dig it.
Naborr (norm): and grandmaster Rhiemann
Ryme (norm): I wanted to write a fantasy story where knowing equations was like casting spells.
Naborr (norm): who makes your delta x approach zero!
Ryme (norm): a nice parabola would be a bridge across a chasm, the step function would get you up a tower, etc.
Naborr (norm): sounds awesome
Ryme (norm): Yeah, at that concept level, it is. Then you realize there's nothing much else worth writing about.
Naborr (norm): that is a problem
Naborr (norm): luckily you have math nerds like Whuk who can give you ideas
Olaf (norm): What? I mised math jokes?
Naborr (norm): so I says to the guy, you wanna know what I says?  I says to the guy, pie isn't square, pie are round!
Naborr (norm):  /math joke
Ryme (norm): I think the whole zone will be you saying "exponential" and some math thug shouting "it's just quadratic, stupid!" and beating the crap out of you.
Zelandoni (norm): Needs a "Fermat's Second-to-last Theorem" joke.
Olaf (norm): If you do ever do it, I demand a unibrowed X.
Olaf (norm): It's mean.
Naborr (norm): L'Hopital will find your limit!
Naborr (norm): The limit, OF YOUR LIFE!
Ryme (norm): we should put this in the forums, before I lose it all.
Ryme (norm): Obviously foes will be named "irrational x" "radical y" "rational z" "imaginary i" and such.
Naborr (norm): don't forget the /un/natural logarythm
Ryme (norm): Am I allowed to make the "Euler? But I 'ardly even know 'er!" joke?
Naborr (norm): haha, yes.
Naborr (norm): Absoltively
Ryme (norm): Guess this needs to be through the dimensional gate. In some irrational plane?

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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:30 pm 
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Whoever that Naborr character is, he seems like a smart cookie.

I say we listen to him.


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WIN.

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This is frickin' awesome!

Definitely needs a differential equation reference somewhere.

The ever-used "Matrix has you" joke...

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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:41 pm 
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There was actually a villain just like that in The World Ends With You. He'd randomly yell trig functions while attacking.


Still, we should do it anyway. I've got a ton of jokes to recycle:
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Your momma's so fat, I had to integrate her by parts.

Math puns are the first sine of madness.

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third orders a quarter of a beer. Before the next one can order, the bartender says, "You're all assholes," and pours two beers.

Are you a differential function? Because I'd like to lie tangent to your curves!

Everyone was having fun at the math party except for e^x, all alone in a corner. Seeing he was sad, the square root tried to cheer him up.
"Hey, man, why don't you go out there and try to integrate?"
"Why bother? It's not like that's going to do any good."

What do you get if you cross a mountain climber with a mosquito?
Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scalar.

If A equals B (so I say),
And we multiply both sides by A,
Then we'll see that A squared,
When with AB compared,
Are the same. Remove B squared. Okay?

Both sides we will factorize. See?
Now each side contains A minus B.
We'll divide through by A
Minus B, and ole!
A plus B equals B. Oh whoopee!

But since I said A equals B,
B plus B equals B, you'll agree?
So if B equals one,
Then this sum I have done,
Proves that two equals one. Q.E.D.

If you think that this proof is a hit
And you're enamored with your clever wit
Then look close and you'll see
That in part two, line three,
You divided by zero - OH SHI-

A student as smart as could be
Had to integrate x to the 3
He said "x to the 4
over 4, I am sure"
But was off by a constant of C

The result when you add one to e
raised to the power of three
point one four one five
nine two times i
is zero (approximately)

A mathematician confided
that a mobius strip is one-sided,
and you'll get quite a laugh
if you cut it in half,
for it stays in one piece when divided.

The world's dead geniuses play hide and seek in heaven. Einstein goes over to a tree to count, while everyone scurry around to hide. In the meantime, Newton draws a 1 meter square with a stick and sits in the middle of it.
When Einstein finishes counting, he turns around and sees Newton in his square. "I've found you", he says. "No you didn't", Newton answers. "But you're right here in front of me!" Einstein says, puzzled. "Tell me, what do you see?" Newton asks. "I see you, Newton, sitting in a one meter square."
"And what is a Newton on a 1 meter square?"
"A pascal."
Newton grins.

A biologist, a physicist and a mathematician are all paid to observe this house. They watch it for a week and nobody enters, or leaves the complex. On the 8th day somebody walks in, and on the 9th, two people walk out.
The biologist says: "Clearly they must have reproduced."
The physicist says: "Obviously our initial observations were incorrect."
The mathematician says: "If one more person walks into that house, there will be nobody in it."


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I used to study math. Then I grew a beard. Math themed area ftw! :D

EDIT: By the way: Something with sexy primes, please? Everybody loves sexy primes.

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Actually, there was a fantasy novel like that, not exactly like that, but similar. The Compleat Enchanter. I think. Anyway, the short version is, that by training yourself to accept various mathematical laws as real, such as the laws of contagion (One apple + 4 oranges = 2 1/2 apples, 2 1/2 oranges) which don't apply to this world, you would pass into a world where those laws do apply. And by understanding those rules so well to achieve the transit between worlds, you would qualify as a wizard in the new world.

Doesn't need to be through the portal. Could be hooked up to some computer systems by Novak. 'Hey, we recovered some of the stolen computer equipment, but it looks like it's been infected with some sort of mega-virus. Since a regular program wouldn't be able to remove it before being destroyed, we had this crazy idea about sending you in to clean it out. Think of it like a really really pixelated villain.'


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There's always Rick Cook's Wizard's Bane series, about a modern day computer-programmer who ends up in a fantasy world and... um... uses *nix commands to cast spells...

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Huh. I may have to look up a few books. Those sound fun and interesting.


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Your mother is so fat that the escape velocity at her surface exceeds 3 x 10 ^ 8 m/s.


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Jesus and his disciples were walking around one day, when Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9." The disciples looked very puzzled, and finally asked Peter, "What on earth does Jesus mean - the Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9?" Peter said, "Don't worry. It's just another one of his parabolas."

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Heh, I didn't know our math themed COnversation would actually become a new zone. Sounds awesome!


Also, Naborr, Id like to lie tangent to your curves.


Delta X approaches Infinity ftw :)

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On the topic of weird books, Snow White and the Seven Samurai is a pretty odd book. A couple kids hack into some computer and end up in a fairytale world, which is run on Mirrors 2.1 >.>

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At the risk of sounding offensive, I'd like to put my huge ray tangent to your (mother's) parabolas.

Also, at the risk of sounding more offensive, would you like to see the exponential growth of my natural log?


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I wish I was a hypotenuse so I could get between your legs >.>

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Uh, this isn't exactly going in the direction I would have planned for a math zone.


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It'd be an easy place to slip in a Toy Story reference. "To infinity... and beyond!"

Just trying to clean it up a bit.

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New Monster: Rectangular Bear

New Combat Usable Item: Trig Cheat Sheet (Reusable)

After you use the Cheat Sheet on the bear in combat (thereby performing a coordinate transform) a rather confused Polar Bear wanders off back to the arctic...

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Cartesian Bear, maybe?

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Olaf wrote:
Cartesian Bear, maybe?


Cartesian Bomber! (It's a plane, get it? :P)


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