The Microsoft Windows engineer considers both solutions and then says,
"Let's restart it and see if that fixes it."
>>>>>>>
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From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:41 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject
Nice.
--Ben
Gruss Gott wrote:
>>Ray wrote:
>>A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him
>>the largest possible pen out of a fixed amount of fencing.
>>
>
>
> Reminds me of the classic computer geek joke:
>
> An electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and com
> Ray wrote:
> A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him
> the largest possible pen out of a fixed amount of fencing.
>
Reminds me of the classic computer geek joke:
An electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and computer engineer are
all riding in a car down a l
He's saying you don't really need the whole fence, just a
representative portion of it to show it's placement, like you would
have in a graph. :P
> ok, i get the punchline (and it's amusing)...
> but how can the physicist consider a finite piece of
> fencing to be
> infinite in length?
> On
That was kind of how I took it. Induction of a sort.
--Ben
Jim Campbell wrote:
> I figured it was like every physics teacher I had in college "Ok, for
> the sake of arguemtn, assume there is no friction or resistance to
> impede motion..." or "Now, for the purposes of this equation, this
> ve
Heh, that's how I took it too. Like the ticks on a graph. We can
assume the graph continues to infinity, but the relevant scope is all
that matters.
On 7/7/05, Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I figured it was like every physics teacher I had in college "Ok, for
> the sake of arguemtn, as
I figured it was like every physics teacher I had in college "Ok, for
the sake of arguemtn, assume there is no friction or resistance to
impede motion..." or "Now, for the purposes of this equation, this
velocity can be rounded to the nearest 10" or the like. Maybe wrong,
but I took it in stri
That was the part of the joke that I also got hung up on. Figured it
was just thrown in there, hoping no one would catch it.
Charlie Griefer wrote:
> ok, i get the punchline (and it's amusing)...
>
> but how can the physicist consider a finite piece of fencing to be
> infinite in length?
>
ok, i get the punchline (and it's amusing)...
but how can the physicist consider a finite piece of fencing to be
infinite in length?
On 7/7/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him
> the largest possible pen out of
I used to tease topologists about being bisexual, since all holes are
equivalent. :-)
--Ben
Ray Champagne wrote:
> It is a rather geeky joke, but I liked it, since my background is in
> math... :)
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ne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:48 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: geeky joke
LOLthe largest animal pen one could build with those materials is
one that spans the whole world. The tiny little pen that you're
standing in is the "outside" of the p
It all depends on your definition of outside.
larry
On 7/7/05, Tony Weeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i dont get it :(
>
> On 7/7/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him
> > the largest possible pen out of a fixed
LOLthe largest animal pen one could build with those materials is
one that spans the whole world. The tiny little pen that you're
standing in is the "outside" of the pen.
It is a rather geeky joke, but I liked it, since my background is in
math... :)
Tony Weeg wrote:
> i dont get it :(
>
i dont get it :(
On 7/7/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him
> the largest possible pen out of a fixed amount of fencing.
>
> Without giving it a second thought, the engineer builds the farmer a
> large, circular p
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