Deep Thoughts
I've been thinking a lot about things lately...both times have been while I was doing homework. I'm not talking about my thought on how much steel a beam with a hole in it needs or how much water each person uses per day, but about...other things.
The first thing that crossed my mind was: I think I would rather be shot with a real bullet versus a rubber bullet. My reasoning was drawn from the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The Sheriff mentions that he would like to cut Robin's heart out "with a spoon." His not so bright cousin asks him, "Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?" The sheriff angrily replies, "Because it's dull you twit. It'll hurt more." That pretty much sums up my reasoning right there. Now, excluding the fact that I get shot in any vital part of my body, I think I will come out ahead. :)
The second thought I had was when I was working on economics homework and was using the value of "e" (2.718281828...) . Now, this is a very mysterious number. It is obtained as shown below.
The first thing that crossed my mind was: I think I would rather be shot with a real bullet versus a rubber bullet. My reasoning was drawn from the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The Sheriff mentions that he would like to cut Robin's heart out "with a spoon." His not so bright cousin asks him, "Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?" The sheriff angrily replies, "Because it's dull you twit. It'll hurt more." That pretty much sums up my reasoning right there. Now, excluding the fact that I get shot in any vital part of my body, I think I will come out ahead. :)
The second thought I had was when I was working on economics homework and was using the value of "e" (2.718281828...) . Now, this is a very mysterious number. It is obtained as shown below.
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"e is a real number constant that appears in some kinds of mathematics problems. Examples of such problems are those involving growth or decay (including compound interest), the statistical "bell curve," the shape of a hanging cable (or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis), some problems of probability, some counting problems, and even the study of the distribution of prime numbers. It appears in Stirling's Formula for approximating factorials. It also shows up in calculus quite often, wherever you are dealing with either logarithmic or exponential functions. There is also a connection between e and complex numbers, via Euler's Equation."
Oh, and e is the solution to the infinite series summation of (1/k!). Strange.
STOP!!
You cannot be serious! All this discussion of "e" is maddening. I know a guy who almost died trying to understand this very concept. Don't do it Mikey...
Besides, everyone knows the key to the universe is a large metallic sphere, disguised as a Rubic's cube, known as the "CONTINUUM TRANSFUNCTIONER"!!
-Its mystery is only exceeded by its power.
As everyone knows, the shape of the gateway arch is actually simply the shape of a hyperbolic cosine, but inverted. And as you all remember from Dr. Tyler and Dr. Ralston, cosh(x) = (e^x + e^(-x))/2. And just by coincidence, the shape of a cross-section of a traditional grapefruit spoon is also defined by the hyperbolic cosine, which means getting your heart dug out by one would hurt a heck of a lot more than getting shot with a rubber bullet.
Mikey... I have to say... I think you've finally lost it.
Stu
Mikey,
You are correct in saying that the limit as n approaches infinity of 1/n is 0. However, you forgot that the limit of products is the product of limits, especially when the products are multiplied by each other a variable (infinite) amount of times. Think of (1 + 1/n) as a number approaching 1 (from the right), BUT NEVER REACHING IT. It is always greater than 1, b/c lim as n app. infinity of 1/n never reaches zero. If you multiply a number infinitely close to one by itself an infinite amount of times, you will obviously get 2.7. Or thereabouts.
It only takes a small mind to realize that I used McLauren here, to solve this problem.
The answer is 42.
I think you have been enjoying your grass a little too much lately. P.S. Just thought I would test out the HTML abilities. And I think they stink because it would not let me change the font color to green!
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