[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

See, it wasn't my fault.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

This is a conspiratorial news release by the big computer companies to promote their new products. Pencil pusher mathmeticians, UNITE!!!

[right right]

Too small to understand self responsibility, now math.

[theDentist]

Getting ready for the new P.C. Social Theory: Kids fail at math because humans weren't designed to understand math. It's not their fault if they bring home 'F'.

[Moonman62]

Everything that can be invented has already been invented. Didn't someone say that over 100 years ago?

[Eagles Talon IV]

Nothing new here. I told my mother this as I handed her my report card in 1958.

[ghitma]

So easy a three year old can do it! Somebody run out and get me a three year old.

[martin_fierro]

Math not so hard, dumb dumb!

[Tanniker Smith]

This is too funny. I'm a math teacher on a professional development day. I just took a break. and this is the top story!

[Tanniker Smith]

This is too funny. I'm a math teacher on a professional development day. I just took a break. and this is the top story!

[GOPJ]

What mathematicians are trying to get is insight and understanding. If God were to say, 'Look, here's your list of conjectures. This one's true, then false, false, true, true,' mathematicians would say: 'Look, I don't care what the answers are. I want to know why (and) understand it.' And a computer doesn't understand it.

Ummm, build better computers?

[MineralMan]

"You can't prove the sun will rise tomorrow, but you can prove two plus two equals four, always and everywhere. "

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Really? I can prove that 2 + 2 = 11.

[Doogle]

cute little casher: that'll be $1.63
Doogle: (gives cute little casher two one dollar bills)
cute little casher: can you hold a sec? I don't have any quarters.
Doogle: ah yeah
cute little casher: (after banging roll of quarters on cash register draw and spraying draw with quarters) I'm sorry, here you go, (she handed me three dimes,a nickle,and two pennies)
Doogle: thanks


Doogle

[LurkedLongEnough]

Math has been the only sure form of knowledge since the ancient Greeks, 2,500 years ago.

Um, I beg to differ. My spouse and I know a different kind of knowledge. And it's not Greek.

[Camel Joe]

Well then... let us bring forth the microchips and let the Borg(unization) of humanity begin. I'm just a little afraid that it will actually happen in some socialist parts of the world. Cloning and Cyborgs, ah the 21st century will be interesting indeed.

[CommandoFrank]

I wanted to impress my grandpa with my math skills so I told him the formula Pi-r-square.

He laughed at me and said "No, boy. Pie are round. Cornbread are square!"

[Vicomte13]

How can the article say "Four Colors"?

Russia touches at least 10 other countries. If you only used four colors, you would have to have the same color touching at least thrice.

I suppose if you just limited the scope to "map of Europe", but even then, you'd have to leave out the Balkans to use just four colors.

If a computer can "prove" that only four colors are needed, then the computer is clearly in error.

[1L]

The computer has to be programmed, does it not?

[kidd]

My brain hurts!

[headsonpikes]

"Basically, mathematicians are not very good philosophers."

I don't want to start a flame war, but in my academic experience(chiefly in Logic seminars), this was generally true.

Of course, the converse is true, as well.