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"Let ε<0." Or a similar but more blatant telling of the original joke would be "Let ℵ₀ be a group."
by waqf 9y ago
"Let ε<0."
Or a similar but more blatant telling of the original joke would be "Let ℵ₀ be a group."
- magoghm 9y ago"Let ε<0." There goes the neighborhood!
- keithpeter 9y agoExcellent. Thankyou very much. I teach basic Maths to adults in the UK, so I tend to use these old faves... "What did the zero say to the eight?" "Nice belt" (even my sister has heard that one) "Why does noone talk to circles?" "There's no point" Thankyou and goodnight
- mcguire 9y agoWhy is six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine. Never grep a yacc by the inode.
- ptero 9y agoFor what real values of i does the sum of ε^i, taken ε=1 to infinity, converge? Our real analysis lecturer once put this question on the blackboard (with sum as the proper scientific sum notation). Even though we all knew the answer as trivial it took most of us some time to figure it out in such screwy notation (his point was that our mind is not invariant WRT notation, do not make up monsters when the normal schemas exist)
- madcaptenor 9y agoIn 2005, which had a very bad hurricane season in the Atlantic, (that was the year of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma) they ran out of names for hurricanes and had to use Greek letters. The last hurricane of the season was called Epsilon. Due to my mathematical training I found it very hard to be scared of it.