Do you know why they never have beer at a math party? Because you can't drink and derive...
Did you hear about the teacher who was arrested trying to board an airplane with a compass, a protractor and a calculator? He was charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
A teacher was trying to impress her students with the fact that terms cannot be subtracted from one another unless they are like terms. "For example," she continued, "we cannot take five apples from six bananas." "Well," countered a pupil, "can't we take five apples from three trees?"
Question: "How many seconds are there in a year?" Answer: "Twelve. January second, February second, March second, ..."
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Actually, there are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
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if I am not mistaken...
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He meant the 2nd's, not seconds. :)
Actually this equation is regarded as the most beautiful eqn. Refer http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/05/07/the-neuroscience-of-mathematical-beauty/