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A couple of weeks ago a kid comes up to me on the street carrying a calculator, like a kind of rough kid who for some reason was hanging out with a couple of hi
by gizajob 2y ago
A couple of weeks ago a kid comes up to me on the street carrying a calculator, like a kind of rough kid who for some reason was hanging out with a couple of his friends and enamoured with it, but not the kind of nerdling one would expect to be playing with a calculator on the street. He goes (giggling to self) “hey mate what’s the square root of 64,128,064“ clearly hoping to catch me out with some piece of mathematical hilarity… but naturally I’ve been that kid in my youth and snapped back to him, before cycling off:
“8008”
- medstrom 2y agoThat kid sure learned the meaning of "nothing new under the sun".
- hammock 2y agoGen Z added a new one :) https://i.redd.it/j5txdt2np1v71.jpg https://i.redd.it/j5txdt2np1v71.jpg
- gizajob 2y agoHe actually thought I was a maths genius and shouted “Albert Einstein come back” not realising that I just did sqrt(64) in 50 microseconds and then 450 microseconds of schoolboy humour derivation. Probably more like a Feynman approximation than an Einsteinian, but maybe he’ll learn that in decades to come. Good job his pocket calculator couldn’t square 58008 or 5318008 else I probably wouldn’t have grokked it.
- musicale 2y ago450us humour derivation/confirmation is good: (8K + 8)^2 = 64M + 2*64K + 64 = 64,128,064 (assuming decimal M, K)