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#1 2005-12-24 19:50:57

mikau
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identities

sports identities:

soccer = 1/basketball

ping pong = tennis/10000

hockey = soccer + stick 

baseball = basketball - hoop + bat - action.

skiing = 2(snowboarding)

football = soccer + wrestling

boxing = hockey - stick

Add your own identities!


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#2 2005-12-24 19:52:02

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Re: identities

Decaf = Coffee/infinity  yikes

Last edited by mikau (2005-12-24 19:52:23)


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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#3 2005-12-24 23:41:27

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Re: identities

golf = a walk in the park + frustration

dressage = horse racing + dancing - racing


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#4 2005-12-25 03:44:12

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Re: identities

This topic = maths + confusion

And according the mikau, boxing = soccer yikes


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It wanted to be normal.

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#5 2005-12-25 16:24:59

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Re: identities

Polo = (x*No.of Hockey players)/n + horses - sticks + mallets


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#6 2005-12-26 18:33:51

mikau
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Re: identities

Hahaha! This is great stuff! Keep it coming!

Math = anything and everything that ever was uber!

science = math + wiseguy


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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#7 2005-12-26 21:47:37

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Re: identities

Religion = Science - Logical Proof


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#8 2005-12-26 22:11:10

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Re: identities

technology = science + business

... oh, and ...

maths = fun


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#9 2005-12-27 08:30:03

mikau
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Re: identities

Rather, Maths > fun


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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#10 2005-12-27 09:15:50

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Re: identities

Science = Religion + Uncertainty

Music = Math * Sound

Sky ski = Airplane + Water

Figure skating = hockey + art

Art = Insanity + Respectability

And finally...

Mac = (Me - $$)(PC + Happiness)


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#11 2005-12-27 13:13:31

mikau
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Re: identities

credit card =   ∑(1, infinity) debt


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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#12 2005-12-27 14:22:27

John E. Franklin
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Re: identities

chromatic notes in musical octave = 8 - 1 (duplicate C = Doe a deer a female deer) + 5 (C#, Eb, F#, Ab = G#, Bb) = 12 notes
clock = 12 positions

                              C
                    B                  C#
            
               Bb                            D

               A              .               Eb

               Ab                            E

                    G                    F
                              F#

Last edited by John E. Franklin (2005-12-27 14:23:28)


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#13 2005-12-27 16:39:06

Jai Ganesh
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Re: identities

Acalculia = Human Brain - Mathematics


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#14 2005-12-27 22:46:33

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Re: identities

Ahah cool
Like

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#15 2005-12-28 09:03:14

mikau
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Re: identities

lol!


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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