Math Is Fun Forum

are you sure that's appropriate for a forum?

now,that's optimism!

i'm sorry Sarah.hi!!!

hay how old are you?

16-D

17-correct!

18-D

19-correct!

20-correct!

how'd you get 11-b? no mistakes?

well we have a modest one!

i think i tried sarcasm!i could never use antagonism or feminine tears.the first one i don't know how,and the second one would hurt my pride!

cool!you're not mucho older than me!

hay,anyone wanna have a sarc-off?

Mathematical proofs:

* Proof by General Agreement: "All in Favor?..."

* Proof by Plausibility: "It sounds good so it must be true."

* Proof by Accident: "Hey, what have we here?"

* Proof by Tautology: "It's true because it's true."

* Proof by Intimidation: "Don't be stupid, of course it's true."

* Proof by Terror: When intimidation fails ...

* Proof by Logic: "If it is on the problem sheet, then it must be true."

* Proof by Clever Variable Choice: "Let A be the number such that this proof works."

* Proof by Divine Word: "And the Lord said, 'Let it be true,' and it came to pass."

* Proof by Postponement: "The proof for this is so long and arduous, so it is given in the appendix."

* Proof by Avoidance: Limit of Proof by Postponement as t approaches infinity.

* Proof by Stubbornness: "I don't care what you say! It is true!"

* Proof by Authority: "Well, Bill Gates says it's true, so it must be." but i would change this one from Bill Gates to Cameron Diaz.

* Proof by eminent authority: "I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP- complete."

* Proof by Divine Intervention: "Then a miracle occurs ..."

* Proof by personal communication: "Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete [Karp, personal communication]."

* Proof by reference to inaccessible literature: The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society, 1883.

* Proof by mutual reference: In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.

* Proof by ghost reference: Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.

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what if thunder hits the power lines and you run out of electrical power?at least you can eat KFC...:)

all?

you don't know my personality very well.

if i had someone like you here,i would be thrilled because i could talk to him about math without boring him to death,and then hell.

i don't get this post:"tell him bobbym anonimnystefy big boy go away"

also,i would never fire a hail of bullets at you.maybe a hail of chicken wings with butter!

and keep small talk in the small thread?

ok,sorry,mr. moderator.

can i talk about kangaroos,or even better snails here?

and i say that there was no cricket.maybe it was your imagination.you have one of the strongest kind.