One of the things that can land an educator on Fark is teaching students about eating pie.

Dead for Tax Reasons: My high school calc teacher used leibniz chocolates in class. She also seemed to like to eat a lot of them too

I missed all the fun in school.

Pi are round, cake are square.

I use m&ms to teach fractions and graphs. Why aren't I on fark?

Oh Crap, did I just ask to be on fark?

Yes, but was it sexual? http://youtu.be/nHRERLEM2eE

the_sidewinder: haemaker: Tau = Cake

And Cake = lie

Therefore Tau = lie

QED

Whoa, I am no where near drunk/stoned enough to process all of this.

casual disregard: No. learn Tau (new window).

I'm not sold on the name "tau" but I certainly agree with the concept. Here's the original article (new window, PDF).

That's not so much "calculus" as it is one specific application of discrete approximations.

Bacontastesgood: That's not so much "calculus" as it is one specific application of discrete approximations.

This.

Also: No matter how brilliant a professor is, how often is it really worth the $thousands you'd save by just going to the library and finding a well-written calculus book to learn from on your own?

some of my finest lectures are over a slice of chocolate cream pie! give me a tube of additional icing to draw with, and you'll be in a hallucinogenic sugar high as i explain calculus...

Math thread? Oh wait, wait, I'll do it:

This concept was the very first real (non-game) computer program I saw...to estimate pi based on how many random hits in a circle (basically, if the distance from the center is larger or smaller than the radius).
This was about 1980

dutchoven69: Math thread? Oh wait, wait, I'll do it:

[www.anvari.org image 426x469]

"girls require time and money" is not g=txm, it's g=t+m. Unless you mean a hooker's hourly rate.

It seems they chose color based upon "any bit outside makes the whole block outside". They could have gotten a little closer using "more or less than half".

Ok ok ok ok, I got one

Descartes and Heisenberg walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "So you guys want a shot?" Descartes says, "Ummm... I think not." and, POOF! he disappears. The bartender turns to Heisenberg and says, "Did you just see that?" and Heisenberg says, "I'm not sure..."

What relevance does this joke have to this thread? None.

BigLuca: Ok ok ok ok, I got one

Descartes and Heisenberg walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "So you guys want a shot?" Descartes says, "Ummm... I think not." and, POOF! he disappears. The bartender turns to Heisenberg and says, "Did you just see that?" and Heisenberg says, "I'm not sure..."

What relevance does this joke have to this thread? None.

What's purple and commutes?


An abelian grape.

bcbwilla: BigLuca: Ok ok ok ok, I got one

Descartes and Heisenberg walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "So you guys want a shot?" Descartes says, "Ummm... I think not." and, POOF! he disappears. The bartender turns to Heisenberg and says, "Did you just see that?" and Heisenberg says, "I'm not sure..."

What relevance does this joke have to this thread? None.

What's purple and commutes?


An abelian grape.

Awesomeness.

Only other one I know ....

Question: What is the contour integral around Western Europe?
Answer: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe

PanicMan: It seems they chose color based upon "any bit outside makes the whole block outside". They could have gotten a little closer using "more or less than half".

You're missing the point. They could have gotten the exact value by increasing the pixel count to infinity. You can't do that, so they show that increasing the resolution allows them to get a more precise value of pi. With a high-enough resolution, you can assume they are just under-estimating pi, because of the way they low-ball the black bits.

casual disregard: No. learn Tau (new window).

Shear stress?
Time constant?
Torque?

BigLuca: Ok ok ok ok, I got one

Descartes and Heisenberg walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "So you guys want a shot?" Descartes says, "Ummm... I think not." and, POOF! he disappears. The bartender turns to Heisenberg and says, "Did you just see that?" and Heisenberg says, "I'm not sure..."

What relevance does this joke have to this thread? None.

(white chocolate) != chocolate

Chain rule 34?

/hot like Kal-cool-uss

UsikFark: dutchoven69: Math thread? Oh wait, wait, I'll do it:

[www.anvari.org image 426x469]

"girls require time and money" is not g=txm, it's g=t+m. Unless you mean a hooker's hourly rate.

It should be more clear but yes, girls require product of time and money.

UsikFark: PanicMan: It seems they chose color based upon "any bit outside makes the whole block outside". They could have gotten a little closer using "more or less than half".

You're missing the point. They could have gotten the exact value by increasing the pixel count to infinity. You can't do that, so they show that increasing the resolution allows them to get a more precise value of pi. With a high-enough resolution, you can assume they are just under-estimating pi, because of the way they low-ball the black bits.

But if you work the equation both ways, with one saying "it must be some small value greater than this much" and a second saying "it must be some value less than this much" and then find that both equations converge to the same point as the limit approaches infinity, you can solve for an actual value.