320.2! 301.5, 311.3, 65.4

[Stone Mill]

Too bad no one has a Butler Avatar.

Why, you ask...

Because the Butler always did it.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

quote:

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Originally posted by tbontob:

So why all the grief?

Because we are no longer the largest thread at the forums! We had just overtaken the B5 thread a couple weeks ago before this happened. All that hard work gone down the drain.

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Hmmmmm

I still think it may have been part of the Sunday hacking party. Maybe the B5 guys did the hacking?

[Taz-in-Space]

&#1 Rabbit detective is on the case. &#1

One Sherlock Holmes type character previously known as General Woundwort has been seen snooping (and smoking) into the disappearance of the Name Changing Thread Posts.

While this reporter has had unpleasant encounters with certain members of the bunny species ( I trust he is NOT related to that BUGS creature! ), all help towards the swift solution of this mystery is to be desired.

With this goal in mind, I have included the following document:

I, Taz Devil , hearby swear that I have no knowledge of and no participation in any conspiracy to steal and/or destroy the missing Posts.
________Signed: Taz Devil

With that out of the way, I now volunteer to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner of any suspects sent my way!

[ July 10, 2003, 04:19: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

[Kamog]

Guess we'll have to post a ton of nonsense to get this thread to the #1 position again... but now we are so far behind that it may take a year to get there.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i found a math joke site.

Alexander the Great had an Infinite Number of Limbs (From Joel Rubin - grad school days!) (top)

Alexander the Great was forwarned of his fate by an oracle.
Forewarned is fore-armed.
Four arms + 2 legs = 6 limbs.
Six is an odd number of limbs for a man!
Six is even.
No finite number is both odd and even
Therefore Alexander had an infinite number of limbs!

Question: What do you call a bird that flew away from home? (top)

Answer: Poly-gon ! . . . . ha ha ha (from my ex-trig student Will)

Question: What do you get when you divide the circumference
of a Jack-O-Lantern by its diameter? (top)

Answer: Pumpkin Pi !

Three Kinds of People (sent in by my former student L.L.) (top)

There are three kinds of people in this world:
those who are good at math, and those who aren't.

10 Kinds of People (follow-up from my student Lorenzo, now in Italy) (top)

There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those who know binary, and those who don't.

Theorem : Perfect Squares Don�t Exist - by Prof Hendrik Lenstra (top)

Proof : Suppose that n is a perfect square. Look at the odd divisors of n.
They all divide the largest of them, which is itself a square, say d^2.
This shows that the odd divisors of n come in pairs a, b, where ab = d^2.
Only d is paired to itself.Therefore the number of odd divisors of n is odd.
This implies that the sum of all divisors of n is also odd. In particular, it is not 2n.
Hence n is not perfect, a contradiction : Perfect squares don�t exist. QED.

This site maintained by B & L Web Design, a division of B & L Math Enterprises

found this while looking for all cats have five legs. this'll do.

(idea) by Wntrmute (10.9 hr) (print)
Theorem: All Cats have nine tails.
Proof:
No cat has eight tails.
One cat has one more tail than no cats.
Therefore, all cats have nine tails.

All Cats are mortal.
Socrates is mortal.
Therefore, Socrates is a cat.

(idea) by exceptinsects (1.5 d) (print) ? Sun Jul 22 2001 at 7:28:03

In a Musical Acoustics (AKA Physics for Idiots) class final at Oberlin College, we were given a question that began:

Imagine you are playing a saxophone on the planet Jupiter and there is a large cat blocking the mouth of the saxophone...

[ July 10, 2003, 07:06: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Ruatha]

When the same thing happened to the Iraqi war thread we never found out what had ahappened did we?

[Fyron]

This is the third time that random Posts in the middle of a thread have disappeared, which makes it that much more likely that it is a bug with the software. Unless, of course, you want to tell me that the hacker has been at work for nearly a year.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i don't know. for a long while, our firewall was reporting a lot of port scans, although not for a year, just a few months. although, given the number, if it was a hacker, he was using something automatic.

[ July 10, 2003, 08:57: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Rojero]

Wow i thought this site was pretty much safe...am I wrong in that assessment?

[Taera]

i've found that WinXP + being on a sucky router makes it very rare occassion that you get a virus or hacked/nuked/whatever (didnt have any, not to my knowledge, since a while)