Something to lighten the mood

[Galu]

What’s the difference between a mosquito and a mountain climber?

One’s a vector and one’s a scalar.

 

[Galu]

A mathematician decides that his wife can no longer satisfy him so he decides to have an affair with his 18 year old office assistant. Before taking his assistant to the local hotel, he leaves a message at home for his wife. "Dearest wife. You are 65 years of age and I find that you can no longer satisfy my needs. I am going to the Hilton with my 18 year old office assistant. Please understand my actions."

When he arrives at the hotel, a letter from his wife is waiting for him at the front desk. It reads “Dear husband, as you know you are also 65 years of age and I must admit that I have been unsatisfied for quite some time. By the time you read this I will be at the Mariott with our 18 year old pool boy. And, being the mathematician that you are, you will realize that 18 goes into 65 more times then 65 goes into 18. Please don’t wait up.”

 

[Cal Weldon]

Every notice that the square root of 69 is 8 something?

 

[Cal Weldon]

My math professor said I was average.

That's just mean.

 

[AllenB]

The root of all evil is 25.81

 

[Galu]

You need a better calculator!

 

[AllenB]

You checked that?

 

[wg_ski]

You’re off by 0.1561

 

[system7]

Fermat, Lagrange, Cauchy, Fourier, Galois and now mcchambin!

But I have discovered the subterfuge in Mr. Cal's methods:

He threw a smokescreen over the problem by multiplying by 4.

We all would have seen it straight-away otherwise.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Yes, I snagged the one that looked the best. Steve, I believe the one you show is the original.

 

[Cal Weldon]

If you combine Allen’s root of all evil, with the first four digits of the decimal, it looks a lot like the answer to post 1283.

25.8069

 

[mchambin]

Every notice that the square root of 69 is 8 something?

Allen’s root of all evil is sqrt(666).
25.8069
This is puzzling to me.

 

[stv]

I understand your first sentence, but could do with a tad more explanation after that.

 

[mchambin]

Thank's, stv, for your purely geometrical approach.
No need for sqrt(3) neither Pithagoras.
An entirely visual solution.
Post 1255 said it all.

 

[mchambin]

Here is a variant of puzzle at post #1268.

Same but with 16 80 instead of 24 100.
Then it is more of a challenge to find the area of the circle.

Enjoy.

 

[Mark Johnson]

I think you might mean




six minus the square root of twenty.

 

[Galu]

Thanks stv, that's clearer now.

As I suggested earlier, there's more than one way to skin a cat!

 

[mchambin]

I think you might mean
six minus the square root of twenty.

For the area of the circle, you need Pi.
I think, you give the radius, I'll check, I have not made the calculation yet.

 

[mchambin]

I think you might mean
six minus the square root of twenty.

For the area of the circle, you need Pi.
I think, you give the radius, I'll check, I have not made the calculation yet.
Let's wait more answers.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Fill in the missing math symbols to make this correct.

7 3 7 3 = 24