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John “Give ‘em a kick for me” Derbyshire gives us this little math joke:
Mathematicians distinguish carefully between a sequence (infinitely long list of numbers) and a series (what you get, if anything, by adding all those numbers together).[...]
“Once when walking past a lounge… filled with a large crowd watching TV, [Polish mathematician Antoni Zygmund] asked one of his students what was going on. The student told him that the crowd was watching the World Series and explained to him some of the features of this baseball phenomenon. Zygmund thought about it for a few minutes and commented: ‘I think it should be called the World Sequence.’”
I figured I’d lob one out to my math and engineering friends (paging Andrew Bissell and pal Broox)
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Frankly, I don’t give a shit. It gives me the hives to be on this site too long, since there are far too many leftist moonbats and tinfoil loonies lurking around. If you insist, I think Zygmund is wrong on both accounts mathematically, if you look up the definition in the dictionary neither apply. Series is defined as the indicated sum of a finite or of a sequencially ordered infinite set of terms. Sequence is defined as an ordered set of logical oriented quantities (ie, x, 2x^2, 3x^3, 4x^4, etc.). I think the term ‘playoff’ makes more sense.
Now, go away and leave me alone shit-for-brains.
Listen you jar-hear SOB, I know where you live and I think all that radiation is whats has made your hair fall out. Yeah, I can sleep better at night knowing your in charge of monitoring nuclear output OK!
But I think you’re wrong on Zygmund. After all isn’t 1,2,3,4… a sequence?
(ie 1, 1×2, 1×3, 1×4…) or (1, 1+1, 1+2, 1+3…) Now, I don’t know for sure but it looks like a goddamn sequence to me.
Now, go have a cup of heavy water so when we go camping you can be my night light. Radiationheadsonofabitch!
I ain’t going camping with you, butt muncher. You’ll spike the beans, and I will wake up with KY on my ass. Go punch some doagies elsewhere Montana Wildhack.
I agree 1,2,3,4… is a sequence, but does’nt muster with the mathematical definition as I described above. The NBA plays a best of 7 game playoff and they don’t call it a series or sequence. Now, back in the early original baseball days of the late 1800s or early 1900s when everybody was experiencing their first ball park franks, some derby wearing Mick or Dago back in Beantown decided to call the Baseball championship (best of 7 game) playoffs a series, or a pollock (in this particular case) calling it a sequence (give me a fucking break Budgebleak). WRONG, that bimbo won’t put out, shit-for-brains.
Have a nice day. Gotta go. Semper Fi.
That’s it Broox – no more ribs for you. You’re getting Spam poached in water and katsup. with a side of macaroni and milk – no pepper.
Math jokes are always the sort where you laugh under your breath a little bit. They’re funny more because they point out the nerdiness of the people who understand them, than because they are humorous in their own right.
One of my favorites: in my complex analysis course my professor was speaking about a sequence of numbers in the complex plane and marked a few of the first elements in the sequence with points on the markerboard. Then he says, “I’m not going to draw them all, because it would take too long.” Maybe you had to be there, but I had a hearty chuckle at that remark.
P.S. You suck Budge you shit-eating assclown.
Andrew, it makes me chuckle as well. But more importantly I’ll wear the shit-eating assclown moniker with pride.