lunachick

You mean there's such a thing as calculus jokes? Heh. Who'da thunk it? <shrug>

Muad'Dib

*Gasp* Of COURSE there are calculus jokes!

• So a lunatic walks into a bar screaming, "I'm d/dx! I differentiate you!" to everyone he sees. Naturally people are alarmed and leave as quickly as they can, except for one guy who just sits calmly at the bar sipping his drink. The lunatic runs up to him and screams, "I'm d/dx! I differentiate you!" The guy turns to the lunatic and calmly says, "Yes, but I'm e^x."
• Optional extension of the previous joke: suddenly a second lunatic runs into the bar and says to the guy, "Yeah, but I'm d/dy."
• And let's not forget the worst pick-up line of all time: "Are you an everywhere-differentiable function? 'Cause I'd love to be tangent to your curves!"

(The last one is due to somebody around here, I don't recall who...but you know who you are! And you will pay! )

Zachar

The derivative (rate of change) of the exponential function (e raised to a power, where e ~= 2.718281828459045...) is the same exponential function. In other words...

d/dt [e^t] = e^t

or

f(x) = e^x ...therefore
f '(x) = e^x

"I am, the rate of myself", said another way is "I am my own derivative".

e^(rt) is a form of common solutions for ordinary differential equations.

lunachick

Oh, I get it now!!

Not!

*sonic boom as joke wooshes over my head*



I hate maths, I hate maths, I hate maths....

Jeremy Pallant

Maybe I should have moved this to humor.

Psycho Economist

Where it could go over even more peoples' heads!

Chicken Girl

aaaah. I figured it was something like that.

e3pi

Extinction Event:
http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/e-.../weedplan.html

"Anybody see in the above an effort to understand the forest through detailed understanding of the trees and other parts of the forest, but with no systemic perspective as to what makes and modifies
forests over time?

> In other words, what we may be seeing here is a very good
demonstration of how the discipline sciences are giving us
interesting commentary but little understanding of whay things are
the way they are and do what they do."
>
EnergyResources Moderator Tom Robertson

Geopaleontologic fauna's differential evolution?

Blind exosomatic exponentiation, consuming iter-expons collapse, impulse function catastrophe, without abiding pi amilioration and
sentient dwell:

$ pi^{1/2} = \int_0^\infty e^e^e^...
e^t*e^-{1/2}e^...e^t*...*e^e^e^t*e^e^t*e^t dt $

is way more INTERESTING than e^t, e^e^t, ....e^e^e^...e^t's greed,
with or without, the $ sign.


d e^t / dt = e^t's insatiable maw:



The Growth Imperative:
Corporations live or die
by whether they can sustain growth. On this depends
relationships to investors, to the stock market, to banks and
to public perception. The growth imperative also
fuels the corporate desire to find and develop scarce
resources in obscure parts of the world. This
effect is now clearly visible, as the world's few
remaining pristine places are sacrificed to corporate
production. The peoples who inhabit these resource-rich
regions are similarly pressured to give up their
traditional ways and climb on the wheel of
production-consumption. Corporate planners consciously attempt to
bring "less developed societies into the modem world" to
create infrastructures for development, as well as new
workers and new consumers. Corporations claim that they
do this for altruistic reasons to raise the living
standard—but corporations have no altruism.
Theoretically, privately held corporations—those owned by
individuals or families—do not have the imperative to expand.
In practice, however, their behavior is the same.
Such privately held giants as Bechtel Corporation have
shown no propensity to moderate growth.

The Profit Imperative:
Profit is the ultimate measure of all
corporate decisions. It takes precedence over community
well-being, worker health, public health, peace,
environmental preservation or national security. Corporations
will even find ways to trade with national
"enemies"—Libya, Iran, the former Soviet Union, Cuba—when public
policy abhors it. The profit imperative and the growth
imperative are the most fundamental corporate drives;
together they represent the corporation's instinct to

"live."

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pisekn...lf/message/119

I am

what e3pi wrote is not a joke, it is not funny (even to those who know calculus). It is simply smokescreen for his whacked-out political views. I suspected as much from his first post, but now have confirmation.

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