Impure Mathematix
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Wherein it is related how that polygon of womanly virtue, young
Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that notorious villain
Curly Pi, and factored (oh, horrors!).
Once upon a time (1/t) pretty Polly Nomial was strolling across a
field of vectors when she came to the boundary of a singularly large
matrix. Now Polly was convergent and her mother had made it an
absolute condition that she never enter such an array without her
brackets on. Polly, however, who had changed her variables that
morning and was feeling particularly badly behaved, ignored this
condition on the basis that it was insufficient, and made her way
amongst the complex elements. Rows and columns closed in from all
sides. Tangents approached her surface. She became tensor and tensor.
Quite suddenly, two branches of a hyperbola touched her at a single
point. She oscillated violently, lost all sense of directrix, and
went completely divergent. As she reached a turning point, she
tripped over a square root that was protruding from the erf and
plunged headlong down a steep gradient. When she rounded off once
more, she found herself inverted, apparently alone, in a non-euclidean
space.
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Wherein it is related how that polygon of womanly virtue, young
Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that notorious villain
Curly Pi, and factored (oh, horrors!).
Once upon a time (1/t) pretty Polly Nomial was strolling across a
field of vectors when she came to the boundary of a singularly large
matrix. Now Polly was convergent and her mother had made it an
absolute condition that she never enter such an array without her
brackets on. Polly, however, who had changed her variables that
morning and was feeling particularly badly behaved, ignored this
condition on the basis that it was insufficient, and made her way
amongst the complex elements. Rows and columns closed in from all
sides. Tangents approached her surface. She became tensor and tensor.
Quite suddenly, two branches of a hyperbola touched her at a single
point. She oscillated violently, lost all sense of directrix, and
went completely divergent. As she reached a turning point, she
tripped over a square root that was protruding from the erf and
plunged headlong down a steep gradient. When she rounded off once
more, she found herself inverted, apparently alone, in a non-euclidean
space.
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- Impure Mathematix
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Wherein it is related how that polygon of womanly virtue
young Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that notorious villain Curly Pi, and factored (oh, horrors!... - The responses below mention the following works (a few added)
A Random Walk in Science - R.L. Weber and E. Mendoza More Random Walks In Science - R.... - Pass the beans please!!
Once upon a time there lived a woman who had a maddening passion for baked
beans.
She loved them but unfortunately they had always had a very embarrassing and somewhat lively reaction to her.... - When Polly got home that night, her mother noticed that she was
no longer piecewise continuous, but had been truncated in several
places.
But, it was too late to differentiate now. As the months went by, Polly's denominator increased monotonically.... - When I was in a six person suite of rooms, one of my room mates was a
witch, and by coincidence, another room mate had a key to his room.
One night the witch room mate returned to find that all six calendars in his room were set to October, and there was a pentagram of pencils on his desk.... - A tribe of Native Americans generally referred to their woman by the
animal hide with which they made their blanket.
Thus, one woman might be known as Squaw of Buffalo Hide, while another might be known as Squaw of Deer Hide.... - Hearing a common fraction behind her, Polly rotated and saw
Curly Pi approaching with his power series extrapolated.
She could see at once by his degenerate conic and dissipative terms that he was bent on no good.... - While looking for a Real Job (read: technical writing), I've been paying
the bills doing medical transcription work.
I came across a book today called "The Empty Laugh Book" by the American Association for Medical Transcription, containing some of the funniest dictated and transcribed quotes from the world of medicine that I've ever encountered.... - THE DARWIN AWARDS
Date: December,1997
The Darwin Award is made each year to the person
who has managed to kill themselves (and therefore
prevent the survival of their genes - hence
Darwin!
) in the most bizarre way imaginable. Previous winners have included the man killed when the vending machine he was trying to extract a can of Coke from fell on him, and last years aviator who strapped a JATO module (rocket) to his car and lit the blue touchpaper....
