How many of you will get this :)

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[5614]

nice... i get it, i wont spoil it for everyone else... quite clever... only the mathematicians will get it.

 

same to you too!

[bloodhound]

does anyone know what that constant is ? 2.71828. i dont get the point of writing sqrt (x^2) when x would just be sufficient. unless he wanted to introduce symmetry. i dont get the (1/y)^-1, when just y would be enough.

[5614]

well if you look at it like that he could have just written it out! its meant to be hard!

 

 

one sec, bloodhound... do you not know what 2.71828 is?

[bloodhound]

isnt there a letter missing?

[edit] sorted. i should i thought in terms of words not symbols

[5614]

just outta interest does anyone else get it?

 

and blike, did you understand it yourself??? just because you're doing some kinda microbiology, so i wouldnt have thought you would have.

[Silencer]

I get the first line, and from that I can only assume what the second should be.

 

It is pretty neat though.

 

edit: nevermind, I get the second line now, the x was throwing me off.

[Rakdos]

after reading it for the third time i get it its funny

[budullewraagh]

a friend showed it to me the other day. got it quickly. the H2O was probably the most significant hint

[Sayonara]

Ha, pretty good

[AL]

Good one.

 

only the mathematicians will get it

You don't need more than high school math to get it.

 

the H2O was probably the most significant hint

You're kidding, right?

[Phi for All]

That is good.

 

And it's my wish to all of you brainy-types out there.

[budullewraagh]

You're kidding, right?

got me to thinking about the nature of the writing. since it was in a jovial christmas-ish tone, it prepared my brain to think of such a topic

[YT2095]

1

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that message

[Jordan14]

I had to read it a few times. But yes I get it

[Ophiolite]

Once I recalled there is something called joined up writing it fell into place.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

It took me a while, but I get it now.

 

Good one.

[Perennial]

A cool one ! What was the original source?

[5614]

http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/post-287-1101922357.gif

 

is the original site of the image

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

It's a Fox Trot cartoon. Someone scanned it onto Neowin.

[coquina]

I got it. Very good. Think I'll send it to the physicist's I work with.

[jdurg]

Heh. Pretty funny.

[NSX]

What's the point of the H₂O?

 

ho ho ho?

 

Or is it because Santa's looking @ the snow?

 

^o)

 

else: i think it was good, though they should have written 2.71828...

 

actually, they should have written "Limit n->Inf (1 + 1/n)^n"

 

That would've been more fun.

[folder]

My physics teacher puts a fact of the day on the board each day and he put that on the board last Thursday.

[bloodhound]

lim n tends to inf of (1+1/n)^n is too recognisable... what about lim n tends to inf of (1+1/(n-3))^(n+10)