Basic math escapes some people

[braex27]

It always surprises the number of people who aren't able to do simple arithmetic in their head...

 

[olivierwilde]

Sure: this is from the proof of the Sylow theorems:

as I'm sure you'd recognise.

-T.

you sir have a very beautiful mind

 

[teadrinker]

you sir have a very beautiful mind

Highly debatable! (but thanks for the compliment) - and if true, it's the only aspect of me that is beautiful...

-T.

 

[Titanic]

Highly debatable! (but thanks for the compliment) - and if true, it's the only aspect of me that is beautiful...

-T.

Well you seem pretty darned wonderful from here!

Then again, I'm biased, I'm a maths student so I always have a ton of respect for professors. Myself, I'm not a proof person per se, I'm still impressed by the little things like Vedic mathematics.

 

[BFizzle]

Okay, I'm gonna vouch for the cashier here. Maybe the change just threw him off? Sounds simple, but sometimes when you're on the register dealing with ratchet customer all day, your brain can go into retarded mode.

 

[Willie Boy]

∀ε>0 ∃δ>0 ∀x(0<|x-c|<δ ⇒ |f(x)-L|<ε)

The answer is a dollar three eighty.

 

[Willie Boy]

So what is seventy five plus seventy four?

 

[Willie Boy]

My ideal weight.

You must be shorter than average for 149 to be your ideal weight.

 

[winterknight]

The answer is a dollar three eighty.

There is no answer.

As Teadrinker pointed out, it's Weierstrass' epsilon-delta definition of a limit.

 

[Willie Boy]

There is no answer.

As Teadrinker pointed out, it's Weierstrass' epsilon-delta definition of a limit.

No. one dollar three eighty is the answer.

 

[treanir]

The "add the integers from 1 to 100" question I finished in a few seconds, but now I'm getting a headache...

*goes back to literature*