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Archive for September 18th, 2006

Bad math humor

One day, Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9.”
A man who had just joined the disciples looked very confused and asked Peter: “What, on Earth, does he mean by that?”
Peter replied: “Don’t worry - it’s just another one of his parabolas.”
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Theorem. Every positive integer is [...]

i.e and e.g.

During a lecture last week, I made use of the latin abbreviations, “i.e.” and “e.g.”, and while I know the correct usage of these I wanted to give them the Latin phrases that they abbreviated. My brain turned off at the moment and I couldn’t recall. Well, here they are.
The Latin abbreviation i.e., [...]