A couple of fun limericks:
There was a young woman named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
There was a young chemist from Ryde,
Who drank a foul poison and died.
It was ortho-hydroxy-
para-methoxy-
tri-nitro benzaldehyde!
A woman in liquor production
Owns a still of exquisite construction.
The alcohol boils
Through magnetic coils.
She says that it’s “proof by induction.”
There are 10 kinds of people in this world.
- Those that know binary.
- Those that don’t.
- And those that didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3.
EDIT:
A statistician, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting in a cafe watching the building across the street. 2 people enter the building. Some time later, 3 people come back out.
- The statistician says, “Our initial count must’ve been off.”
- The biologist replies, “I think they probably reproduced.”
- The mathematician observes, “Now if exactly one person enters the building it will be empty.”
My favourite is: There are two kinds of people, those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.
I suppose we could combine them.
There are 10 kinds of people…
- Those that know binary
- Those that don’t
- Those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 5
- Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data sets
You will need a fifth statement
You will need to extrapolate from an incomplete data set. 😉
Let Epsilon be so small that Epsilon half is already negative.
Someone asks “what’s up?”
Answer: “the cross-product of forward and left”
(the popularity of this joke in engineering school trained me to never ask “what’s up?”)




