Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: education Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:58:23 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: <87a59t5sw0.fsf@example.com> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <874j04fia3.fsf@example.com> <87ikojb4bo.fsf@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:58:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9c2e35490968fbc58cd4552438a0fd57"; logging-data="1269805"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4NLeNKwAbZSuqnPdGMZqnUB1mUQ+E3Ws=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:jxa+sNmZVB0oyO9KmcvaFSsbW5g= sha1:yiuwjdpEWaFypWrTHGJHxjYNnjc= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:26856 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes: > In comp.misc, Salvador Mirzo wrote: >> Rich writes: >>> Salvador Mirzo wrote: >>>>> http://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-086.html >>>> Lol. I don't get the joke. What's up with the joke? >>> The joke is that the second mathematician, who should know >>> better, gave the waitress the wrong answer to repeat. >> >> Why was it the wrong answer? Isn't >> >> (1/3) x^3 + c >> >> the integral of x^2? > > The answer given to the waitress, who pretended not to understand it, > didn't include the +c hence was incorrect. > > I'd say the joke is mathematician incorrectly assumes a blonde woman > can't do math. I see. I don't like the joke. It's usual for experts to abuse language when they talk to one another, so the omission of the constant shouldn't be a problem among the two mathematicians. If the joke was to make fun at blondes, then yeah---not very funny. >>> I.e., the joke is that the mathematicians were not quite as >>> "smart" as they thouoght they were. > > Not smart because they fall for tired stereotypes. Very tired. > Elijah > ------ > but would mathematicians really stoop to doing simple calc? Didn't get your question, although I understand every word in it.