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University in '80s Warsaw - a math professor realizes he would make more money if he worked in the docks, so he quits his job and goes working in docks. And tru
by dvh 8y ago
University in '80s Warsaw - a math professor realizes he would make more money if he worked in the docks, so he quits his job and goes working in docks. And truly his first paycheck is double that of a university professor.
Party wants to increase education of working class so they offer 10% bonus to those who would visit evening school. So the professor sign up for it.
Very first day, the first class is math. But the subject is so simple that professor becomes bored and starts reading book under the desk. Teacher notices that and call him up to calculate area of circle on the blackboard.
Professor is taken by surprise and suddenly cannot remember the formula, so in his head he transfers circle to polar coordinates and uses integral to get the formula and starts writing on the blackboard: -πr²
Then he scratches his head and start thinking where the minus came from when suddenly from the back row someone shouts: flip the interval of integration, colleague.
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- gammateam 8y agoI've already heard this as "engineer in Russia quits to do non-intellectually stimulating job, finds a bunch of engineering 'comrades' already there" your version is a ton more verbose though
- posterboy 8y agoI tried that derivation along with finding the length of the sinus curve.