1 divided by 0? I didnt mean for you to take the sign literally
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ummm…why are Mormons so whack?
PK users
My native country Haiti has been ravaged by that earthquake yesterday. I have family living over there right now who I’m worried to death about. Please keep the country in your thoughts and prayers.
I may be going over there next week to help, so you may not see my comments for a while. As always; peace, love, & God bless.
I hope you’ll manage to hear from them soon.
And I’m hoping for the lower numbers of devastation to be true. (Very little info coming through atm, for obvious reasons.)
K1,
Prayers for your family, friends and country.
Be safe and God Speed.
*hugs and prayers*
I know the feeling. I hope you hear that they’re all safe and well soon.
Good luck to all of them. It sounds pretty chaotic at the moment.
Wow, sorry to hear that. Good thoughts and prayers going your way.
We were just talking about it last night. Best to you and your family. *hugs*
Good thoughts to you and yours. Good luck and be safe.
*hugs* Best wishes for your family and friends, and take care when you are around collapsed buildings.
Prayers for you and yours. Hope you hear from your family soon and that they are all ok. *hugs*
Good luck to you, your family, and your country. I hope they’re all right.
If you need a hammer, give a holler. My deep best wishes and hopes for your family.
a candle and prayers for you and your loved ones
K1, You have prayers, moral support, and anything else I can offer. Please be safe!
*hugs* Good luck, I hope everything turns out alright.
I’m late on this Knowledge, but my prayers are with you and your family and everyone in Haiti.
Hope all turns out well.
In my thoughts. Good luck to you and yours.
gmc360, A wittier and more relevant initial response here would have been “First”.
BJ is very witty for a Mormon.
I imagine if I were Mormon, that might true. It still may be true (but more likely is not because ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ and I’m never brief) even given my actual religion.
What amuses me is how you toss around the word “Mormon” like there is some inherent evil in it and expect I will be offended by your assumption that I’m Mormon. I’m not. All the Mormons I’ve met are truly good, kind and intelligent people. Even if I don’t agree with their beliefs entirely, I can still appreciate them as individuals.
Your ignorance and prejudice is repugnant and the source of most of the world’s problems.
An interesting aside, although I strongly disagree with the teachings of the LDS, more so than most other brands of Christianity, and have never actually met a Mormon myself(or at least not knowingly as most people don’t introduce themselves with their name and religious affiliation), everyone I know who knows Mormons describes them as being incredibly nice and polite, I can’t think of any other group that would be described that way.
My b-i-l has said that according to the research he’s read, the Mormon charitiesare where you want to donate if you intend on as much of your dollar getting to the people in need. I think he said 97 or 98 cents of every dollar goes to helping people. With other places like the Salvation Army it’s something like 70 cents or less, with the worst being that one with Sally Struthers begging you to feed the children in Africa. I think less than 30 cents goes to those kids.
….and 60 cents goes to feed Sally Struthers.
Eh, I have met Mormons who were total a$$es, but no more than any other group. In many areas the only Mormons people meet (that they know are Mormons) are the missionaries, and they are incredibly nice and polite. SInce they have a motive for being so, however, I think that is not exactly a valid sample.
No evil in the use of the word Mormon, it is all ridicule. Cherck yer sniffer. You realize exactly where on the interweb you are right? Not prejudice …. not the source of the world’s problems. Religious nut jobs AND those with sticks in their asses cause most the problems around here.
Did you just post this reply to the wong post?
I’m impressed you can decipher it enough to come to the conclusion that it’s in the wrong spot. I can’t quite understand what he/she is trying to say. For example, why does he/she want to check my nose? I’m fairly certain he’s ridiculing Mormons, not calling them evil, but after the that the post just deteriorates….
I think gmc360 is seething with anger and therefore using that particular writing style (“incoherent rambling” as the technical term is) in response to:
Guess I gave you some of folks too much credit. I always thought the folks around here were witty AND smart.
Note to self – no more shorthand, spell everything out else confusion reigns and groupthink ensues.
It was the poor grammar that did us in. The fact that you had replied to the wrong person also made most of it seem to be mad, incoherent, ramblings. I still can’t understand why ones nose would be helpful though.
“I always thought the folks around here were witty AND smart.”
Indeed. So the failure in communication might have had something to do with how you wrote that post?
Well, since your post appeared to have nothing to do with my post that you replied to, I’m not sure why you’re blaming everyone else for failing to understand you. Less rambling would help also.
BTW, remember Poe’s Law. People write such insane stuff TOTALLY seriously that you have to put a little smilie or in some other way indicate you’re joking otherwise readers have no way of knowing.
Oh snap!
But it’s a simple question! The answer is-
*The fabric of space and time is shattered*
*the captain divides one by zero*
*disappears into a different dimension*
ZOMG I’M IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE!
How did you manage to crash an entire parallel universe into a Taco Bell? That takes some doin’, Captain.
I’m talented when it comes to failing, Diss.
Then again, isn’t Taco Bell a great place to start?
Is it considered roaming to text or make phone calls from a parallel universe? Does Vulcan get sucked into a black hole in that universe too?
Calls from a parralel universe cost $ 1/0 per minute.
lol he looks like a throwback from the gene pool
seriously, how did somone that freakishly fugly become a candidate?
Obviously, you are one of our great minds.
You can’t deny that’s one ugly dude.
Actually, yes, I can.
What I CAN’T deny is that I strongly believe your eyeglass prescription needs an update.
I think you’re the one with vision problems.
I mean politicians aren’t exactly eye pleasing at the best of times but seriously this guy is freaky creepy looking.
My first thought on seeing him (?) would be to call the cops to check the sex offenders register. It’s amazing he lasted as long in the race as he did.
closet ‘mo
That’s a bad picture of him true, but he’s a very attractive man. I’m curious about why you think he’s creepy looking…
I’m curious also. I didn’t vote for him when he ran for governor here, and have disagreed with most of what he did and said as governor (saving the Olympics does NOT prepare one for governing), but never have heard of anyone being creeped by his looks. Usually menfolk rave over his hair, and women are either attracted or ‘eh, he’s good looking, but…’.
So please, enlighten us!
I’ll bet it’s penis envy..
Ooooooo…are we going to start including measurements in the candidates’ personal stats?
I think they can just whip ‘em out and measure at the Iowa caucuses next time.
I thought that’s exactly what the Iowa caucuses are already.
Now you know the real reason Hillary lost…
Yeah. Puh-lease. Hillary’s would’ve beat out all the candidates easily.
(I’m just kidding. Don’t get mad, Hillary supporters.)
The candidates do spend a lot of time in Iowa prior to the caucuses.
Can’t say I find him in the least bit attractive. I think his face is just a bit long, but well, um…I don’t think how he looks should have anything to do with his running for president. I’m also not about to call the cops to see if he’s a registered sex offender. He’s not attractive, doesn’t mean he’s molesting kids.
Looks shouldn’t have to do with it, no, but iirc there are statistics showing that the taller and/or better looking candidate almost always wins, or something like that.
Can I be more vague and more lacking in the department of giving sources? Sure I can, given time.
the main basis for this was a the kennedy/nixon debates. people who heard it on the radio said nixon won in a landslide… people who watched it on TV said kennedy won in a landslide.
years of research (including by one of my insane comm professors) showed that the (main) reason people thought kennedy won on TV was that he was handsome and filmed well while nixon generally looked disgruntled and was sweating and hadn’t done makeup or anything.
and no, i don’t have a cite… i shredded all those research papers and everything after that class was done (looking at the affect of different media on people’s perceptions of “reality”).
I’ve heard of some research (though I can’t say what level of significance it might have had – for all I remember it could have been Leno’s “Jay Walking” ;p ) that was more recent. Like Bush/Gore-recent, at least. Too bad my memory is only surpassed by my fact research stamina when it comes to suckiness. ;p
If you go to Google Scholar and search on “attractiveness electability” (without quotes), you’ll find many, many hits.
So looks is a factor in how one becomes a candidate? Is that why you vote? Lord help this country..8(
Sara,
Sure!!! That’s the thrill of living in America! Our destiny hinges on the whims of a willfully ignorant citizenry.
Think about it: Had the poster’s shallow candidacy standards been applied in 1860, this would be a very different country today.
Moral: Teach your children well. Then teach them to educate themselves!
Yeah, like Breckinridge was sexier than Lincoln…
lol, 1/0 = +∞
Pfft. 1/0= +∞+eleventy.
Socialist.
…and?
You said eleventy. I had to say socialist. It’s a requirement of my contract.
Durty libratard………. STOOPID Libra’s always thinkg you know what’s best for…. **holds hand to ear** wha… wait, that’s liberatard……. DAMN IT!!! Get the teleprompter to wrok properly… how am I supposed to work?
WE’LL DO IT LIVE!!! FVCK IT, WE’LL DO IT LIVE!!!! I’LL WRITE IT AND WE’LL DO IT LIVE!!!!
That always makes me smile.
1/0= -∞
*LMAO* I consider this caption a Win just for its nerdiness
I doubt this counts as “nerdiness”, because nerdiness implies knowledge of an academic field, whereas this implies ignorance of one. If the joke is that Mitt’s too stupid to know that anything divided by zero is infinity, then it gets credit for being on-point but not for being terribly funny.
Anything divided by zero is infinity? You’re thinking of the specifics of calculus with some limes operation then?
Umm. I guess it’s not “limes” in English. “lim -> 0″ stuff then. :p
“Limit” is the word you’re looking for.
*math geek to the rescue* Oh, shoot. My son took my cape again.
We read it as: the limit of one divided by n as n goes to (or approaches) zero is infinity.
Ah, but only if n approaches zero from the positive side!
Don’t mess up my English translation with facts! (BTW, if you don’t say positive, it’s assumed.
At least in every Calculus text I’ve used.)
Damned positivist calculusists. :p
Sounds communist to me.
Aren’t all intellectuals communists?
Thanks! I’ve repressed all memories of English calculus terms. ;p
You and most the students I taught — usually the day after they learned them!
Generally it was a matter of “about 30 seconds after the exam was done” for me.
But then they pass and go away, so that’s okay! Otherwise their parents call the university and complain. (Seriously, PARENTS of ADULT students.)
Poor (adult) kids. :/
(I would have denounced all kinship with my mum had she done anything like that. :p )
Well, you probably actually did your work and passed your classes, too! The only reason I feel at all sorry for the kids is because their parents are really hindering them at growing up and taking some responsibility for their own lives by hovering like that.
FYI, in the US they’re called ‘helicopter parents.’
Lol…yeah, I’ve definitely heard that term used.
I know, heard that on the radio today. We call them “curlingföräldrar” (“curling parents” for those who wonder what ‘curling’ might mean in Swedish…).
Is that like the ‘sport’ or as in curling one’s hair?
The sport. “Sweeping the way for the kid”, I presume is why that particular likeness came into being.
So…the parents are like the guy with the broom, then?
So everyone’s a Jewish mother already?
ACtually, I think the Swedish metaphor is better than ours because that’s exactly what those parents try to do from day one — smooth out all of life’s little bumps for their children.
Yes, when did that start? It wasn’t that way when I was an undergrad (oh, so many decades ago).
I bet it was.
I recall one incident in 1986 (grad school).
My husband’s cop friend pulled over a young man (early 20s) for speeding. When he got up to the car, the man held up his cell phone and told the cop to ‘talk to his dad.’ Hubby’s friend explained that that was NOT happening. Many of these young ‘adults’ seem to expect their parents to step in AND for it to be effective. NOT.
(Whereas my kid was aghast that I spoke to his math teacher about his grades when I ran into him in the parking lot at school. Poor, abused child.
)
Funny, that worked very well for one of our local politicians’ early-20s-aged sons.
Well, in his case it was “Talk to my mom…” after he’d wrecked his vehicle with some weed in it.
Well, I really meant “NOT” with regards to this cop friend. I don’t doubt that with the right connections, we have enough corruption here that he would have received some serious pressure.
wow u must be realy smart! u went 2 grad school! and u told us all about limits!
Well, I’m Georgia Tech class of ’90 (BS Phys), and I wasn’t aware of it happening at the time. Of course, I wasn’t a professor or even a TA, so I suppose I’d have no reason to be aware of it as long as my parents never tried to embarrass me like that (and, bless them, they didn’t).
I only knew because one of my students’ parents called the dean (the DEAN!) to complain about her darling’s math grade. Fortunately he thought it was hilarious.
Now I understand some colleges have to have sections just for dealing with parents. I wonder what they call them? Helicopter defense systems?
By the way, I should point out that I can be considered an expert on parenting. I’ve never had a single child who didn’t earn a Nobel in one field or another…
Null sets don’t count for parenting points.
I think it is happening more often, but not at a significant rate. I think it’s mostly there is that trend of super over protective, never punish the kid, always be their friend “parents.”
I’ve seen a few freshman like that while in college, but I tend to avoid freshman like the plague. I can’t stand the “I can do anything I want now” mentality.
Well, as the parent of a hs junior, I know that at EVERY college fair we go to, the introductory speaker talks about it. As do the college guidance people. So it’s happening enough for that to happen.
And colleges hiring people just to deal with the problem sounds significant to me. (We gets LOTS of college stuff due to aforementioned junior.)
fair enough. it must be in certain areas. i haven’t seen it that much here, but this is Montana and the locals are a bit more self sufficent than others (not always) and i doubt we’re on the helicopter radar for schools
And it sounds like you are a student, yes? It’s not really something instructors would talk about to other students (due to privacy issues and not wanting to encourage more of the same).
Unfortunately, it’s far from being just freshmen.
FaileV: I think it’s also a matter of what you’re able to observe. As a student, you’re not going to witness the same stuff that parents and teachers witness.
mabs: Q8<
Hey! Nebbi thinks I look like Pamela Anderson! Nothing fake here, fella.
Movie form:
Q|-<
Q{-<
QΞ-<
Q≡-<
Q=-<
Qx-<
Q/-<
Anti-aircraft missiles.
Also:
Q:-< and the lopsided Q;-<
Q-l-E
What about 0 / 0?
Same as 1/0, but smaller.
Much more controversial, 0/0 is
0/anything is zero
anything/0 is undefinable
anything/itself is 1
0/0 is clearly 2.
Proof: Let y=2x/x. Obviously, y is always 2. As x approaches 0, y is still 2. You can even approach 0 from the negative side, if that’s the way you swing. Y is still 2. Ergo, 0/0 is 2. QED.
Or indeed, QE2.
Or queue (which, in my head, is pronounced “kyew-eee-eew”)
But what if y=3x/x?
You dirty pirate hooker! How dare you inflict math on these poor, unsuspecting people!!! A pox on you!!
I’m a clean pirate slut. I don’t accept money for that sort of thing and I bathe regularly (which is no easy feat on a pirate ship out at sea). Oh, and Nebbi started it!
Technically, I believe the person who created the lol started it. Nebbi and I just encouraged it. Totally innocent. (Especially as I didn’t point out the minor flaw in Nebbi’s ‘proof.’)
And DU is NOT dirty. You stop that, Froo. Didn’t they wreck the pirate ship in a previous lol? I’m sure that would wash them down nicely.
Ok fine, she’s a clean slut of indeterminate origin with a pox.
Happy?
*goes on about her business, hating math all the while*
Ok, which one of you gave me the pox? And if I have it then the rest of the regulars probably have it by now too.
How can y be 3x/x when I told you to let it be 2x/x?
Sheesh. Some people just don’t understand proper math etiquette. And mabs, I resent the implication that there’s anything wrong with my proof. I ended it with QED, didn’t I?
My calculus teacher translated QED as ‘quite easily done’. Ah, good memories! (my linear algebra teacher however? NOT good memories!)
Calculus geek joke (that’s probably redundant): the limit as calculus grades go from A to F of Engineering is Business.
(I taught at a university that weeded out 2/3rds of its freshman engineering students via calculus.)
Um, I’m confused. If y=2, then wouldn’t x/x=1, thus making 0/0=1? Math sure is paradoxical.
Ah, but you can’t cancel out the x, because it’s zero. So, no. 0/0 is 2. That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ with it!
Not to rain on your presumably sarcastic parade, but you forgot to divide by the two. If x=0, then y does equal 2. But that is for 2x/x. Get rid of the two, and you get 1= x/x. Sorry, I’m a math freak.
But, I, being sarcastic too, note that anything/itself=one. Therefore y=2x/x=2(1)=21. That simple!
It’s not ignorance, it’s absurdity. Would you be complaining about ornithology if the captioner had instead made the tired “what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow” joke instead?
And yeah, you might want to crack open a textbook for a little refresher.
African or European swallow?
Spit: can’t speak for Africans.
Ugh, you can’t even quote properly. Just have the NHS off you now and put you out of our misery, ‘kay?
What in God’s name are you talking about?
Monty Python.
Heathen.
I know it’s bleedin’ Monty Python, FFS, I AM English. I just chose to go a completely different way with it. Gawd luv us!
“Different” implies validity.
You’re just peeved cos you didn’t get it.
Of *course* you leap straight to the self-serving, simpleton interpretation. I would expect nothing less.
Ok, if you’re not peeved because you didn’t get it, then why do you insist on being such a rude git about it? If you weren’t amused you could have just moved along to another thread.
I believe the phrase you were looking for is “And now for something completely different.”
Excuse me, but I came here for an argument.
Oh, I’m sorry, but this is abuse.
Stupid git…
Just saying no to me is not an argument.
Yes it is,
No it isn’t
Yes it is,
Hey if you want to keep arguing that’ll be another 2 pounds…..
(That said, I liked the “spit” joke anyways.)
I did, too.
It took me a minute (read: all day), but once I got it, I like it too. And somebody up there got up on the wrong side of the bed.
I begin to suspect he doesn’t have a right side of the bed to get up on.
I think he does have a right side of the bed to get up on, but his particular employment situation causes a rather marked lack of empathy or good will toward man on most days.
Could his day possibly be worse than Know1, who managed to be perfectly pleasant and polite today and would have been justified (and probably sympathized with) if he had been other?
People externalize stress differently. Some people knit, some people blow up buildings, some people insult random faceless strangers on the interwebs.
Whatever. IMO, your true character is what you display under stress.
I think your true character comes out under drink, so let’s all go get hammered!!!
Way ahead of you there Foo! *passes the Vodka*
Not tonight. I am a bit pre-migraine and want to be able to take the real drugs if I need to.
But thank you.
PS I didn’t give you the pox, btw. I still have the scar from the vaccine.
Perhaps you should ask Froo — how else would she know you have it, eh? Very suspicious.
Or maybe it’s just entertaining to poke a histrionic person from time to time? Sheesh, people, lighten up!
(And mabs, hon, maybe you’re not the best person to be evaluating stress response. Just sayin’.)
*pokes Dhoti*
Quite entertaining, it makes a weird squishy noise..
Hey, Keithy. Poke it with this. *hands Keithy the stun gun*
WELL DONE!!
Did they change basic arithmetic since I was in school? ANY number divided by zero is “undefined”, since any number multiplied by zero is zero. Otherwise, EVERY number divided by zero would be infinity, no? Does that mean infinity comes in diferent sizes? (Actually, it does, but lets leave that for another discussion)
I just read a book about infinity. Damned big subject – asking Mitt to define it would have been a better question!
I started reading a book about infinity, but when I got to where I thought the end was, it just said “Continued in next volume…”
My favorite book on the subject is 1, 2, 3 … Infinity by Gamow.
{http://www.amazon.com/One-Two-Three-Infinity-Speculations/dp/0486256642}
I just read a book about relativity, and when I got to the end I found I was back where I started.
Snort.
Chortle/zero
Reminds me of one of my favorite Weekend Update jokes (I think that’s where I got it): If it’s the Neverending Story, how did they make a sequel?
That’s a joke? Really? Cause that’s been something I’ve been wondering since I was a small child. No, really!
Not to mention there being sequels to “Final Destination”.
What happened to “Oceans”, “Oceans 2″,…,”Oceans 10″?
Or Star Trek: Deep Space 1-8?
Deep Space 6 was my favorite.
Wait wasn’t the Deep Throat Six……..
As others have pointed out, the question of what is 1/0 depends entirely on context. In standard limits terminology, if 0 is being approached from the positive side, then 1/0 approaches infinity (which is not to say it equals infinity). If it is being approached from the negative side, then it approached negative infinity. In general, it’s undefined. In standard programming terminology, 1/0 = NaN (not a number). There are no doubts other contexts (e.g., sub-fields of set theory) where it equals something else entirely.
See what happens is, the 1 is creeping up on the 0 all sneaky-like, and just when it’s about to pounce it falls through the hole in the 0 and comes out in HoW’s alternative universe. And this happens no matter what direction it creeps up from.
Oops that should be Captain Wow’s alternative universe..
The one she crashed into a Taco Bell?
The alternate universe will be fine as soon as we get the Fiesta Salsa rinsed off.
My math teacher tried to divide by zero today, he’s so old, it’s funny!
He’s more man than most.
Ha!!! Hillary’s more man than him! (BTW, that’s a rip on Mitt and admiration for Hillary)
I have little respect for someone named after a baseball glove.
Hey guys, don’t thrash my guy and I won’t thrash your guy, Obama or Mccain, or girl, Clinton or Sarah Palin. Thanks.
What’s that you say? Thrash Mitt Romney? Rip him a new one? We can do that.