Bartender: Would you have your usual drink, Sir?
Descartes: I think not.
Descartes vanishes in a puff of logic.
And now for something completely different.
I hate x. Consider a power of 2. Say 23, 8. Now consider 7*8=56. Add 1. You get 57. Multiply this by 9. 57*9=513. Subtract 1. 512. which is 29.
Ah! What a beautiful observation. I was ecstatic when I found this. But soon realized that (x*(x+1)+1)*(x+2)=x3.
Hence I hate x.
If you have stumbled here by chance and could make any sense out of this, post a comment.
P.S.: All plagiarism in the above post is highly intentional.
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7 comments:
No I dont get anything and dont care about x! But a hey I shall put:-) N hohoho for the interviews. Howd they go?
u must be facking out of ur mind man.
waise we had ad and i did not call any of u shmucks cause u all suck for never being there for me when i need u most, in the times of dire crises and need and when i stub my pinky toe.
hateness.
kp
hey cool :) look what i have discovered today :D
... um.. this template is a bit odd: You cannot make out when 1 post ends and the next starts. And besides, Serif fonts are soo 1600s. Get Sans man! ;)
.. very very funky 1st post man. I never bothered checking the x*x+1... thingy... it doesn't seem right tho... shouldn't there be some additional terms on the RHS?
bye.
@SD: this was the basic funda.. you may need some manipulations..
hmm also i finally figuered the joke out.
yaaaaaaay.
very commentworthy first post.
and u better come from next time. i am watching u : : : : : :
{those are the eyes of various smileys who have devoted themselves to this worthy cause of watching u]
will you *write* something here eventually?
or will you leave it to wither and die in the cold autumn sun, which was about when you posted ur last post?
:-P
I think I know what you mean. There's more fun in seeing a pattern than in finding out that it has an explanation using boring algebra.
But consider - not everyone can see these things on the fly. And hence I appreciate it when I can find an explanation for the tricks I can do with math - I can then explain to someone *else* how to do the same trick by showing him/her how it works.
Why is this important, you say? Why would a mind incapable of understanding the beauty and symmetry of pure numbers be worth wasting time on?
Because, my friend, I am a maths teacher :P
~lakesidey
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