Category Archives: Joke

Math Joke Limits

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Sumant Sumant
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The Smart, Greedy and Bloodthirsty Pirates

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Sumant Sumant

This is a fun puzzle by Ian Stewart about 6 pirates who are smart, greedy and blood thirsty. The youngest one proposes a way to distribute the 100 coins they have gathered in a recent expedition. If the proposal is … Continue reading →

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Tolstoy on Fraction

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Sumant Sumant

A man is like fraction. The numerator corresponds to who he is and the denominator corresponds to what he honks of himself.  The greater the numerator, the smaller is the fraction.

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Wallis on Negative Numbers

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Sumant Sumant

Wallis in his 1665 book Arithmetical Infinitorum argued that and is a negative number then because so . Thus negative number is simultaneously both less than zero and greater than infinity.

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Negative numbers

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Sumant Sumant

About negative numbers Poet W. H Auden Minus times minus is plus The reason for this we need not discuss

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