I CANNOT ALGEBRA ANY MORE

FUCK THAT SHIT I JUST FORGOT IT

Thats trig you dope

No math in the Red Room.

Comments to MA.

Technically, it's geometry. No trigonometric functions are required to find x.

This reminds me of a Marylin Monroe quote. When asked weather she had algebra in school, she said "Oh, do you mean those triangle things?".

Warning for you too.

One more math post and I'll close the thread.

Bring it.

Warning for math and for backtalking to the Kwisatz Haderach.

Any more sass and you're outta here, Scooter.

Your powers are weak...old man

You have got to be the dumbest motherfucker on Earth. And it's not for the stuff you don't know, but the way you go about expressing it on a daily basis.

All I remember from my high school Algebra class is having a crazy WW2 vet as a teacher who taught us how to be a paratrooper by jumping off his desk. He then rolled on the floor and told us he was dodging the bullets. We then resumed the V-Bomb war we were having prior to this.

Why is no math allowed in the red room? not that i have a problem with this.

My HS trig teacher was also the wrestling coach. He'd give us our assignment and would then spend the rest of the class reading his newspaper.

The Force is with me.

More like The Schwartz.

My Schwarz is bigger than yours.

There are good reasons no math is allowed in the Red Room:

Suppose that a given number of posters, which we will call "x," do math in the Red Room. Let's say that they do this in a given percentage of their posts, which we will call "y." Furthermore, many posts, even those which contain math, are not composed entirely of math. Therefore, we will call the average portion of a math-post that is actually math "z." That means that we will have x*y*z math in the Red Room.

Now we have to look at what kind of math it is. Is it something simple, like trigonometry, geometry, or calculus? Is it more difficult math, like differential equations, vector calculus, quantification, or statistical analysis? Or is it really serious math, like cryptography, approximation theory or tensor calculus? The level of math can be called x*y*x sub-1, x*y*z sub-2, x*y*z sub-3, and so on.

It has been determined that the probability of x*y*z sub-1 causing n posters' heads to explode is less than the probability of x*y*z sub-2, and that the probability of x*y*z sub-2 doing so is less than the probability of x*y*z sub-3. However, although it is counter-intuitive, it has also been determined that the probability of x*y*z sub-5 causing n posters' heads to explode is less than the probability of x*y*z sub-4 doing so. Thus, it is necessary to determine the optimum level of x*y*z that will maximize the amount of head-explosions, resulting in the greatest intensity of goo on the walls of the Red Room. The actual prohibition of math in the Red Room is dependant on the intensity in 4-dimensional analysis of the x*y*z function, since the degree of prohibition is inversely proportional to the intensity of x*y*z.

The determination of the actual 4-dimensional space of prohibition is left as an exercise to the student, who wll find useful tips on setting up the appropriate equations on pages 1289 to 1296 of the Red Room manual. The equation is to be worked out before posting any math in the Red Room.

If your head does not explode first.

It would be fun to call Dell or Gateway tech support and ask them about this.

We could have Muad Dib do it...

BTW, I saw a real-life "no math in the Red Room" situation over the week-end. We had meetings of the national board of the scout movement, and one of the guys, who represents the north-east region of France (Alsace, for those who care) is a mathematical nut. He started doing equations on the board, which most people considered as a simple decoration because they couldn't understand it at all. Then he and I got talking seriously about some aspects of mathematics (in particularl, we were discussing aleph numbers, the proof that there are an infinite number of aleph numbers, which got us into projection, injection and bijection, and the possibility that there are non-integral aleph numbers, which it turns out is indeterminate). We had just been sitting at the table talking about this during lunch, to the great amusement of most of the others present. Then he got up and started going over some of the demonstrations on the board, point by point. Absolutely none of this, of course, had any bearing whatsoever on any of the scouting subjects we had to deal with, or will ever have to deal with. It was just for fun.

The reaction of the others was very amusing. It was downright Muad Dibian!

They claimed he was geh?

Because of your kid's early math, or because you have a kid?

We won't mind if you go algebraless.

^ I can sympathize. I've loved math since I was a kid and do it just for fun and relaxation, but my "little baby girl" has now gotten farther in her engineering than I did (since I switched over to human sciences) and I'm finding out what it's like to have your kid pass you up in your own specialty...

I have one thing to say about this....

GOOD!

Here's $100 divided by zero.

Are you rich or poor?