Kirrily “Skud” Robert has started a blog on a little-covered but much-needed area of discussion: Geek Etiquette.
Kudos, Kirrily!
A free giant Santa “Pez” dispenser to the first person who can tell me in the comments why this T-shirt is rude.
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69?
You are correct, sir! The Santa “Pez” dispenser is yours!
And I was just about to post the answer! ARGHHH!!! WHY DO I ALWAYS FAIL? I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE…
I mean, Congratulations Darryl!
Dan
It would have been easier if you hadn’t printed the integral upside down
Stu Savory
http://www.savory.de/blog.htm
Where can I buy one?
A Pez dispenser, a t-shirt or a 69?
The shirt, silly.
And then you realise how much of math you have forgotten
And I loved math…..
http://www.instantattitudes.com/shirts/t005.html
Whew! Right there with you, Richard.
I mean, I have a degree in aerospace engineering (now 10 years old and completely unused)…
Nitpick here. I think technically the post did not “explain why the t-shirt is rude”, and so shouldn’t get the prize. What I mean is it didn’t explain to us non-math types what the meaning of the statement was. [i.e. that it's an example of integral notation, invented by Leibniz IIRC, which given the inputs evaluates to 13^2 - 10^2, which equals 69, which is a slang reference to a sexual position.] If you’re going to lord over us ignorant types, at least have the courtesy to explain the joke.
I was going to explain the joke, when I had a moment. It’s a matter of scheduling, not lording.
As for whether Darryl’s answer was a qualifying one, I’m not going to nitpick a la Jeopardy (”Correct, but you didn’t phrase it as a question!”). By the bye, Darryl doesn’t know any calculus — he just made an educated guess.
That and I googled part of the phrase and found the site where the shirt is sold (see my other post — http://www.instantattitudes.com/shirts/t005.html). There it explains the math of squaring 13 (13 x 13) and 10 (10 x 10), subtracting the second answer from the first answer and…
Well! We wondered why we’d suddenly gotten a spate of orders for that shirt. Then a friend mentioned having seen this post, and sent me the link. Thanks for the PR!
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