“Find x” – “Here it is”
Classic.
Mr. Neville’s giving a midterm today in his class. I had to send him that.
the elephant is sort of cute =)
Can someone explain the check?
I think the last item is sum from 1 to infinity of 1/(2^n), which is equal to one. The second one looks like (but I can’t read clearly) e to the i*pi, which is equal to -1. Thus the check is written for 0.0002 - 1 + 1$, or 1/5 of a cent.
This video of a customer support call to Verizon explains the reason for the check.
On another site, I really like thisone – an essay about Jesus’s role in the Civil War.
Holy freaking cow.
Oh. My. God.
The difference between $0.002 and 0.002c is “a difference of opinion.”
Also note that the check is from Randall Monroe, AKA the xkcd guy.
I once tried buying all of something a store had marked for .25 cents. They weren’t amused.
Don’t forget, she’s “not a mathematician.” :rolleyes:
I once drew a blank during a surgery clerkship exam when faced with the question, “Where was the first American blood bank located?”
My response was “Red Bank, New Jersey”.
I did not receive any credit for this response. I thought I deserved at least a point or two for overweening cleverness in the face of an utterly stupid question*.
*I can imagine no circumstances in which knowing the answer to this would be helpful.
“Omigod! This patient is hemorrhaging out the wazoo!! He needs blood fast, what do we do?!?”
“Well, the first true blood bank in the U.S. was at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital.”
I love these. I’ve had a site bookmarked for years with a few essays like this. The site is no longer there, but here is an archive of it.
I LOVE this site of goofy test answers.
Not just her–she was the second employee he dealt with!
Hell, I SUCK at math and even I know that this is not a “difference of opinion”. :eek:
I love these kinds of things. I just wish I had had the nerve to do some of them in school.
Yeah but like all things Spanish, she’s dangerous. 
(reference to essay 1 in that web archive page)
Also, fucking George Bush is keeping us from sacrificing humans! No wonder the weather has been so shitty lately.
A friend of mine from high school put this answer down on a test he took in a Humanities class his Junior year:
Question: Name three women who were influential during the American Revolution.
His answer: OK. I’ll name them. How about Mary, Jane, and Shirley, but I think the job of naming people should be left to their mothers.
After that, he went on to correctly answer the question. The teacher thought it was pretty funny.