Comments on: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar

By: Een oneindig aantal wiskundigen… at QED

Een oneindig aantal wiskundigen… at QED — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:32:03 +0000

[...] is nog eens tijd voor een wiskundig grapje: An infinite number of mathematicians walks into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one [...]

By: Wolfger

Wolfger — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:47:08 +0000

OK, I laughed. I’m geeky enough to laugh at that.

But then my geekiness went too far and ruind the joke.

Because there’s a finite number of molecules in a beer, and you can’t have a beer size of < 1 molecule (actually, beer is a solution of multiple types of molecules, so even a 1 molecule beer is impossible), so the infinite number of mathematicians can’t infinitely order half-size beers….

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:20:10 +0000

@matthew: sorry, I wasn’t in a very good mood when I posted this

@mackenzie: true, but lame jokes are lame, whether they are esoteric or not.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:33:38 +0000

Peter:
Being esoteric doesn’t make a joke bad. It just puts it outside the realm of the sort of stupid, base humour one would find in your average teenager-aimed movie.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:04:56 +0000

Peter: ouch.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:28:46 +0000

dude, this joke is really lame. and your first comment shows that you didn’t even understood why anybody could even consider this to be remotely funny.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:26:26 +0000

Tim: lol

By: tim

tim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:02:32 +0000

A friend told me this last night.
An engineer, a computer scientist and a mathematician went to Africa to catch lions.
The computer scientist download gigabytes of satellite images, segmented the data and employed 100,000 screensavers to process the data, working out where the most lions were.
The engineer developed an elaborate and easy to mass manufacture trap.
The mathematician put a large sheet of paper on the ground, stood in the middle and drew a square around himself. “I have defined a space such that I am outside the cage, and everything on the other side of this square is inside the cage. Therefore, I have caught ever lion in Africa”.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:37:38 +0000

I generally dislike math, but that’s a good one. And yeah, I understood it, but I thought of it as an expanded version of Gauss’s equation.

By: HCl

HCl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:18:49 +0000

@Flimm:

that’s only true if you show that S converges in the first place. if not you are just adding and multiplying numbers to infinity.