No, no. You have it all wrong. Girls are indeed a complex valued function of time and money, but I think it's reasonable to assume it's holomorphic except at a few isolated essential singularities (after all, girls can be dense at points...) So girls=f(t+im). Now if one has a lot of time and money, one is doing great. So t+im=g. Also, if e is "evil", g*e=abs(g^2), representing how good and evil have the same modulus, but the product is a boring real number. Thus e is the complex conjugate of g, and we have df/de=0 (since f is holomorphic on a suitable neighborhood). Thus girls is a constant function of evil. Then if we evaluate it at a single point, it will give us the value of girls. I.e. I have a really, really, really evil girlfriend once. Therefore, girls are really, really, really evil. (I have ommitted a few of the details of this proof. Notice the one on the website is slightly weaker..) On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:19:10AM -0600, phil at rephil.org wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:57:25AM -0600, Dan Drake wrote: > > 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, > > I think it's wrong when it says Girls = Time * Money. I think girls > are a non-linear complex valued function of both time and money, i.e. > > Girls = f(t,m) > > > all you know is that Girls equal the *absolute value* of Evil. And since > > evil is certainly negative, the formula is > > > > Girls = (-1) * Evil. > > No, again, I believe evil to be complex, and certainly girls are. > Therefore you have to multiply by the conjugate, though that's perhaps > a bit risque for a "family program." ;) > > > And my parents said a math degree wouldn't be useful! > > They should have said it wouldn't profit you. ;) > > Oh -- "Linux." Now this post is flame-retardant. > > -- > I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, > but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together. > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- H. P. Christianson 20 NE Second St. #1005 Minneapolis, MN 55413 (612) 327-6654 hans at friedchicken.org
