On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:49PM -0600, Hvidsten, Leif wrote: > Hence, this is why formulas such as this have been devised: > > http://www.ringworld.org/kbullock/funny/Evilgirls.gif Actually, the formula is wrong. When it says Girls = (Sqrt(Evil))^2, all you know is that Girls equal the *absolute value* of Evil. And since evil is certainly negative, the formula is Girls = (-1) * Evil. We know this is not true. (oh, lord, do we know it...). So at this point we look over the theorem and see what conditions we might have missed. Aha! If instead of the real numbers, we use the integers modulo 2 (where -1 is congruent to 1), the original statement will hold. Therefore Girls = Evil (modulo 2). And my parents said a math degree wouldn't be useful! Dan lowering the S/N ratio since 1372 -- | 4699 BDCB B1A5 28B6 7F8A F8DF EB6A BC2A B0A1 99BF (GPG) | Dan Drake <drake+tclug at lemongecko.org> | http://lemongecko.org/drake/ | public key: email <drake+gpg at lemongecko.org> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011102/80717bc5/attachment.pgp
