![]() One billion! That means even if you’re a one in a million kind of guy, there are still a thousand others exactly like you. Sadly, most of them aren’t mathy, but this one from A. Whitney Brown is.Ĭhina has a population of a billion people. The bartender, a little overwhelmed, asks the mathematicians, “Hey, you guys sure you want to do this? Isn’t that a bit much?” The mathematicians reply, “Oh, don’t worry… we know our limits.”Īnd the good folks at Blue Donut have taken the list of 100 funniest jokes of all-time - as compiled by GQ - and allow visitors to vote on them. Some folks at Yahoo Answers like this one:Īn infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. Sadly, the site failed to include this follow-up joke. How does a mathematician deal with constipation? The folks at Physics Forums like this one: The following are some of what you’ll find. Half an hour later, he sees one with the words 'SPEED LIMIT 20', so he goes down to 20 MPH. A man is travelling down a desert road when he sees a sign saying 'SPEED LIMIT 40'. In the limit this has area pi * r * r, and can be shown to kids without needing calculus.Īnd it's not magic or circular, since pi is defined (in this case.) as the ratio of circumference to diameter.If you do a search for “best math joke ever,” you’ll see that there is widespread disagreement. If you commit sins, limit it to 90 and your chances of getting caught are halved. Int_0^R 2 pi r dr = 2pi r^2/2 from 0 to R = pi R^2.Ī really pretty one cuts the circle into wedges, then rearranges them by alternating direction to make a "rectangle" approx r high, approx pi * r wide, with bumpy top and bottom. Each ring at radius r has thickness dr, and has length 2 pi r, treated simply as a rectangle, which is "close enough" since each is arbitrarily thin. The concentric rings one is trivial to work out. If you've never set up and worked a few, try the dx version and the dy version, then maybe fiddle with a few others. You can arrive at the same by slicing in nearly any manner you wish: vertical dx strips, horizontal dy strips, radial dtheta strips, concentric rings treated as rectangles, diagonal strips, literally anything you wish. The waitress says "one third x cubed" and while walking away, turns back and says over her shoulder "plus a constant!" The second man calls over the waitress and asks "what is the integral of x squared?". He says he will ask the blonde waitress an integral, and the first laughingly agrees. The first guy returns and the second proposes a bet to prove his point, that most people do know something about basic math. So she agrees, and goes off mumbling to herself, "one thir dex cuebd.". All she has to do is answer one third x cubed. He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has returned, he will call her over and ask her a question. The first mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the second calls over the waitress. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The "you learn limits in like, 9th grade" comment reminds me of this one: Sweat building, he turns away from the blackboard for a moment, turning to the other plumbers watching.Īs in one voice, they all whisper -'Comrade, you must switch the limits to the integral!' Minus? How did a negative enter into it, he thinks, going over his calculations once again. Standing at the blackboard, he suddenly realizes he can't for the life of him remember the formula while a bit rusty, he soon figures out how to reason it out - furiously writing out integrals on the blackboard, only to find the area of a circle is -(pi)*r^2. 'You over there - could you please come to the blackboard and show us the formula for the area of a circle?' he asks our engineer. So, grudgingly, our engineer enrolls in a math class and, upon arriving, finds that the teacher wants to establish what the plumbers already know. Our engineer contemplates this for a while, applies for a job as a plumber - and gets it.Īll is well, good money, no responsibilites - until management requires that they take evening school classes to gain new skills and thus better build socialism. ![]() 'Well, why don't you come join us? Easy work, well paid, no responsibility - just remember to keep mum about your degree, as we're not supposed to hire academics.' 'What, this is like a quarter of what I make in a month - for half an hour's work?' The plumber arrives, does his thing, and hands over the bill. ![]() A Soviet engineer needs some plumbing done in his apartment, and calls for a plumber.
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