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9 Geeky Equations You Should (at Least Pretend to) Know
- epenn 15y agoPrevious discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196555 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196555
- lambada 15y agoThat discussion is about Wired's own selection.This is the selection made by their readers.
- bartonfink 15y agoSomewhat sad aside, I once saw a guy in a park wearing a T-shirt that had the equations "F / A", "sqrt(-1)", and "PV / NR" written on it (spelling MIT with some relatively trivial manipulation). I asked him where he got it, because I thought it was clever, and he said he got it from MIT where he went to school, but he didn't know any of the equations (and, by extension, what the shirt actually said) because he majored in architecture.