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The Ghost of RubangB on 05 July 2008

Yeah my grandfather tried to trick me with the halfway forever paradox when I was little and I wasn't buying it. I used to argue with him about time travel all the time. Helped me get this crazy.



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marciosmg on 05 July 2008
alucardremixed said:
marciosmg said:
This paradox shows that Mathematics is abstract and can´t always be taken to a literal context in real life.

There´s this joke - One engineer, one physicist and one mathematician are called to calculate how much water would be needed to put out a large fire.

After 5 hours, the engineer says: "You need 10,000 gallons of water".
After 12 hours later, the physicist says: "You need 9,932.56 gallons of water".
After 3 days, the mathematician says: "Your problem has an answer and it is unique"

Got it?

i got it, the Mathematicians answer would of been NONE, because by three days later, the fire would of burned down the town and forest by now lol, fascinated by your question

 

You´re right, alucardremixed, but the joke is that unlike the world of engineers and physicists, the world of math is completely abstract.

 



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alucardremixed on 05 July 2008

Here's one, For example, consider a situation in which a father and son are driving down the road. The car collides with a tree and the father is killed. The boy is rushed to the nearest hospital where he is prepared for emergency surgery. On entering the surgery suite, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy. He's my son."

i just found it, try to figure that one out lol



fkusumot on 05 July 2008
marciosmg said:
alucardremixed said:
marciosmg said:
This paradox shows that Mathematics is abstract and can´t always be taken to a literal context in real life.

There´s this joke - One engineer, one physicist and one mathematician are called to calculate how much water would be needed to put out a large fire.

After 5 hours, the engineer says: "You need 10,000 gallons of water".
After 12 hours later, the physicist says: "You need 9,932.56 gallons of water".
After 3 days, the mathematician says: "Your problem has an answer and it is unique"

Got it?

i got it, the Mathematicians answer would of been NONE, because by three days later, the fire would of burned down the town and forest by now lol, fascinated by your question

 

You´re right, alucardremixed, but the joke is that unlike the world of engineers and physicists, the world of math is completely abstract.

 

Yeah. But if you put a philosopher in that joke then the last line would be something like -

After a hard night of drinking the philosopher says: It depends on what you mean by "put out".



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dtewi on 05 July 2008
cdude1034 said:
10x = 100 +.1x

--> 9.9x = 100

--> x= 10.01010101...etc

So there is an answer, it's just not infinity. Yes the decimal can go on forever, but that still doesn't make the answer infinity. you can just say between 10.00 and 10.02

I think you did your math wrong.

10x = 1x + 100

-1x     -1x

9x   = 100

/9       /9

x     =   11.111....

alucardremixed said:
Here's one, For example, consider a situation in which a father and son are driving down the road. The car collides with a tree and the father is killed. The boy is rushed to the nearest hospital where he is prepared for emergency surgery. On entering the surgery suite, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy. He's my son."

i just found it, try to figure that one out lol

 

Riddle, not paradox. Answer is surgeon is mother.



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marciosmg on 05 July 2008
alucardremixed said:
Here's one, For example, consider a situation in which a father and son are driving down the road. The car collides with a tree and the father is killed. The boy is rushed to the nearest hospital where he is prepared for emergency surgery. On entering the surgery suite, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy. He's my son."

i just found it, try to figure that one out lol

 

The surgeon is the mother. I knew a similar one. But why is always the father that die? :D



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marciosmg on 05 July 2008
fkusumot said:
marciosmg said:
alucardremixed said:
marciosmg said:
This paradox shows that Mathematics is abstract and can´t always be taken to a literal context in real life.

There´s this joke - One engineer, one physicist and one mathematician are called to calculate how much water would be needed to put out a large fire.

After 5 hours, the engineer says: "You need 10,000 gallons of water".
After 12 hours later, the physicist says: "You need 9,932.56 gallons of water".
After 3 days, the mathematician says: "Your problem has an answer and it is unique"

Got it?

i got it, the Mathematicians answer would of been NONE, because by three days later, the fire would of burned down the town and forest by now lol, fascinated by your question

 

You´re right, alucardremixed, but the joke is that unlike the world of engineers and physicists, the world of math is completely abstract.

 

Yeah. But if you put a philosopher in that joke then the last line would be something like -

After a hard night of drinking the philosopher says: It depends on what you mean by "put out".

Lol, that´s true.

 



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alucardremixed on 05 July 2008

Aw, why everyone had to know the answer :(, i wanted to tease everyone like i teased my cousin on aim right now lol, she was like "The mother is a CHEATER thats why hes real daddy is a surgeon" LOL



wfz on 05 July 2008

This is why you work with limits of integration...These problems really aren't that confusing if you know math well enough.



dtewi on 05 July 2008

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