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Merry Christmas in Geekspeak
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Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:00 AM EST
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Right back atcha. And all the best in the New Year!
Right back atcha. And all the best in the New Year!
I love that! Back to you times 10...and a great New Year!
Happy Holidays to Rachel, and all friends on the blog. Time to eat, drink, and be Merry!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Rachel!!! And MSNBC!
Merry Christmas Rachel and show. Thanks for all your amazing hard work.
Please stop the fat guy from laughing; I want thick white snow on Christmas, not drip-drip-drip water!
Here in Maine a White Christmas appeared overnight - - enough to look lovely but not enough to bother getting around (unless you don't know how to drive on the stuff).
Holiday Greetings to all who congregate here . . .
I really regret never taking calculus! I am feeling out of the loop now! Merry Christmas Rachel! and Merry Christmas to the Entire Maddow Staff!!!!!
I *DID* take calculus, but that formula doesn't rise to the "calculus" level (that would require summations or integrals and stuff like that).
That looks more like a PHYSICS formula, but I don't recognize it. Any physics geeks out there that can explain if for The Rest of the Class?
(After further review... much of it is nonsensical. Square root of x-squared? 1/y to the -1? Those are more succinctly expressed as "x" and "y".)
Also, capital M is typically the mass of the Earth or other planetary body -- whichever you are closest to -- while force divided by acceleration is the mass of any object being acted upon by a force.
r-squared in the numerator would indicate something proportional to the surface area of a sphere... such as electric flux through a boundary...
But, yeah, it is pretty much the math equivalent to stringing together random words to pass as a sentence.
Happy Holidays to all!
May we all be more observant of the Law of the Prophets in the New Year.
oh, and 2.71828 is 'e', the base of the natural log 'ln'.
Yeah, I thought that number looked a lot like e, but I wasn't sure.
Thanks for all that.
It's definitely nonsense, but it's GOOD nonsense, in the sense that there are inside jokes for those who grok the language. I've seen him do the same kinds of things with C code.
Love Foxtrot (and Pearls Before Swine) -- have every Treasury and read them all multiple times.
Where's Sheldon Cooper when ya need him?
Happy Hanukkah.
Merry Christmas.
Joyous Kwanzaa.
Happy Hollidays.
Happy New Year!
I'm now wondering what Pastafarians say to each other during the Winter's Solstice.....
Merry Christmas everyone; Rachel, bloggers, staff and posters. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this blog and on the show. Merry Christmas to all the ones who post here as well. :)
Merry Christmas, one and all (and Happy Holidays whatever you choose to celebrate this time of year)!
I'm certainly no "Sheldon Cooper", though I may be a bit of a "physics geek" (strictly amateur class). But I can explain the math in this Foxtrot strip. In the interest of not spoiling the fun for anyone who wants to figure it out on their own, feel free to contact me via my Vine page (linked to my "screen name" bold-faced at the top of this comment).
:D
DOH!
Oh well, just after posting this I noticed that someone above in the thread had already posted a reasonably comprehensive explanation (should have "refreshed" the page one more time before posting, I guess).
I suppose when it comes to spoiler alerts, it's a bit like the classic bit by Steve Martin:
"Some people have a way with words, and other people... [shrugs helplessly]"
If anyone still has questions after the above explanation, you're still welcome to ask me off-blog.
Merry/Happy/Joyeux/Feliz/Etc.!
:D
D'oh! Indeed! John - I really have to start "refreshing" before I post! LOL!
nah, the 'D'OH' was for me. I have use 'physics math' long enough that I don't readily see the symbols anymore, so I saw:
(Mass of the Earth)(natural growth)(some kinda flux)(a doubly inverted variable)... etc.
Sheesh.
M e r squared = rr (1/y) to the power of -1 = y
The square root of X squared = X times force over acceleration (mass)
A very bold equation indeed. It is infinite in compounding interest for all, and for all a good night that requires much frozen H2O H2O H2O.
Am I seduced or reduced?
Rachel Thanks for keeping us on track. You and the rest of the MSNBCer's make my life better.
One of the most important things you'll read all year - please check it out Rachel:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/25/1171716/-The-Second-Amendment-Has-Nothing-to-Do-with-Gun-Ownership
Chris,
The information at your link to Kos is much more interesting than the dialogue of the video I posted earlier at msnbc.com.
That was wet! But all the best from across the pond X
Hope you got plenty of 3.14159265358979323846...!
Where does one find (8*3.14159265...)?
Bottom of the ocean...
VIIIΠ would have been better...
Yuk,yuk, yuk! Funny, how geeks always want to over complicate everything.Showing off the old academic prowess, yet, they can't evacuate urine from a boot with the blueprint on the sole.
Ho,ho