Cap'n Refsmmat Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52324 Except: "Taking into consideration the fact that [mathematical physicist] Hideo [Akuri]'s Cajun Chicken Littles were primarily made up of dark matter, the waitress's low kinetic energy, above-average mass, and weak attractive force, we devised a formula in which we moved the subtotal's decimal point one place to the left," Dreyfuss said. I love The Onion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 I'm impressed. Anything more complex than the two-body-at-lunch problem was considered insolvable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Douglas Adams had an amusing solution to this called "bistro math". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Douglas Adams had an amusing solution to this called "bistro math". Owing to the fact that the rules of mathematics work differently on a waiter's cheque pad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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