Dope-A-Ween II: Attack of the Dopers

Airman explained the joke to me. Now I don’t feel quite so stupid.

Robin

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Okay, just to clarify:

I thought Sec (-1) was 0. Just to be sure, I checked with a calculator.

What I got was a value fairly close to 0, as numbers go. like .0001-something.

What I don’t get is RT’s subsequent post about getting close to 0. I figured that was the pop culture reference, which I thought JC was continuing.

So :stuck_out_tongue:

Well, I was riffing of RT’s lead but I wasn’t implying any particular pop culture thing.

If anything I was referring to the lateness of acceptance of the concept of ‘zero’.

Stay away from me with those seashells!

Nah, pun, my subscript about zero was just a riff - 100% free of references to Firesign Theatre, Tom Lehrer, the Marx Brothers, or other stuff from their respective eras.

Now, the math: a = cos[sup]-1/sup <==> b = cos(a), so long as a is in the [0,pi] interval.

So a = cos[sup]-1/sup ==> -1 = cos(a), with a in the [0,pi] interval.

And cos(a), with a in radians, is the x-coordinate of the point you get to by traveling CCW around the unit circle from (1,0) a distance of a. The only place the x-coordinate on the unit circle is -1 is at (-1,0) which you get to by going pi units CCW from (1,0) around the unit circle. So a = pi.

So now you get the joke, which wasn’t worth that much to begin with, but has now had a stake driven through its heart by overexplanation.

Heh!

I’m not coming if you’re all going to talk about math all day. :stuck_out_tongue:

I dunno. Suddenly I find RT strangely attractive.

Most of my girlfriends were that way too - they wouldn’t come if I talked about math!

Wimmin - who can figure them out, huh? :confused: :wink:

See, that’s why you name important functions after them … so they think you are talking about them;)

Boy, I wouldn’t have admitted that!

Hey, let’s face it, not too many women are turned on by sweet nothings about Noetherian rings.

’punha, the first “important functions” that came to mind revolved around excriment.

For once I’m glad I have no ex-girlfriends.

I’m gonna dress as premature ejaculation. I’ll wear nothing but my skivies and tell everyone I came in my underpants.

Math! Feh!

Hey, I had to give you the Last Rites last year – now absolution this year – what are we doing, working through the Seven Sacraments one Hallowe’en at a time? :smiley:

He’s already married, so that sacrament is out.

And if (Weird)Dave comes in his skivvies, I think I’ll show up as Oedipus Rex, so it’ll work with my costume when I pull my eyes out. :eek:

Dave isn’t allowed to leave the house in only his underwear. You obviously weren’t listening at the wedding, during the vows part.

Dave isn’t allowed to leave the house in only his underwear. You obviously weren’t listening at the wedding, during the vows part.

Wedding vows?

Pshaw! Who takes those seriously?

Or is it a Canadian thing?

Hmm…I spoke with Angie yesterday and she may be willing to come along (not in costume, of course) but right now I don’t know if either of us will be able to go. She may need to work that day.