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Geek Christmas Card
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:54 pm
by brian
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:04 pm
by trucker2000
Hahaha. Thats good.
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:55 pm
by AnneB
I don't get it and I'm a smart person, just not in math. And I hate puzzles.
Anne
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:04 pm
by trucker2000
Umm, santa asking for rain??
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:07 pm
by brian
Clues:
Left side:
- 2.71828 is the value of the mathematical constant known as e.
- mass = force/acceleration
Right side:
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:24 pm
by AnneB
If you say so!
Anne
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:47 pm
by brian
And r-squared is r times r, or rr...
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:33 am
by lswot
My head! My head!
And this isn't even temporal mechanics.......
Or is it?
Ok!
r squared=rr So, that's like in Spanish, right? You rrrrroll the r.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:56 pm
by Xjmt
Ya scared me. I thought the subject was "Greek Christmas Card" and was afeared of what I might find here.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:38 pm
by brian
"It looks like they're playing leap-frog!"
(That's a quote from
The Birdcage, by the way, when the conservative mother-in-law to be looked at the "greek themed" dinnerware.)
Another clue:
- Any number to the -1 power is 1 over that number, so one over 1/y is y
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:11 pm
by Lou
Shur..........if you shay sho.. :preach:
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:48 am
by AnneB
Well,l I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Anne
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:48 am
by BevH
The one that has me stumped is the square root of x squared... he couldn't just use the Greek symbol chi?
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:58 am
by Xjmt
BevH wrote:The one that has me stumped is the square root of x squared... he couldn't just use the Greek symbol chi?
YEAH!! What she said!
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:38 am
by Henry J
At least it didn't use sqrt(-1) for the "i"