To: jwalsh07
Sorry, no "canceling" after junior high. Students are usually taught by their teachers to "cancel" things, and they forget the actual mathematical operation they're doing. Couple that with being so used to playing with variables, forgetting they stand for actual (oops, almost said "real") numbers, and most people fall for this joke.
Speaking of "real," more geek humor: "God is real, unless declared integer."
20 points to any old-timers who get that one.
To: antiRepublicrat
16/64=1/4 by cancellation of the 6's.
160 posted on
12/05/2005 9:04:36 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: antiRepublicrat
I still call it "cancelling".
20 points to any old-timers who get that one.
Fortran implicits: a through h real, i through o integer, p through z real, IIRC.
To: antiRepublicrat
20 points to any old-timers who get that one.
In my day we dealt purely with the binary values going right into the CPU registers.
(Sadly, "my day" was last Saturday)
393 posted on
12/05/2005 4:57:30 PM PST by
Dimensio
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