han Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Yesterday a guy with nickname locally was playing on BBO until he was disconnected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Sounds normal to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Yesterday a guy with nickname locally was playing on BBO until he was disconnected. What makes it a math pun? Maybe silly geeky ironic joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 What makes it a math pun? Because locally he was still connected :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Someone named locally being disconnected is a math pun in the same way that my response referring to normality is. Or the graffiti slogan Free Abelian Groups. I definitely would recommend against seeking an explanation if one is needed. We can all quietly move on now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Clearly, locally was weakly connected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Much more geeky than the riddle: What's purple and commutes? An Abelian grape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iviehoff Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 What makes it a math pun? Maybe silly geeky ironic joke.Mathematicians are of course keen on rigour, so we had better check whether this is indeed well-defined. A pun is a play on words, invoking two or more separate meanings. "Connected" and "locally connected" are technical terminology in analytic topology, as well as their more common meanings, both of which were alluded to. So I conclude that this geeky ironic joke involved two separate meanings for these words, and therefore is a pun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 As opposed to jocky math puns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Probably it's just as well he wasn't playing the multi. He might have gotten ramified. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted May 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I didn't expect this thread to get an analytic continuation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I didn't expect this thread to get an analytic continuation.Since he simply couldn't stay connected, we may never agree on that one anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_20686 Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I didn't expect this thread to get an analytic continuation. I fear we have reached a singularity, and no further continuation is possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I fear we have reached a singularity, and no further continuation is possible. I'm sure that can be fixed with surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I didn't expect this thread to get an analytic continuation. I think if you aim any post at the group you aimed this one at you're pretty much assured to get an analytic continuation. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Much more geeky than the riddle: What's purple and commutes? An Abelian grape. What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? Zorn's Lemon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 The cocky exponential function e(x) is strolling along the road insulting the functions he sees walking by. He scoffs at a wandering polynomial for the shortness of its Taylor series. He snickers at a passing smooth function of compact support and its glaring lack of a convergent power series about many of its points. He positively laughs as he passes |x| for being nondifferentiable at the origin. He smiles, thinking to himself, "Damn, it's great to be e(x). I'm real analytic everywhere. I'm my own derivative. I blow up faster than anybody and shrink faster too. All the other functions suck." Lost in his own egomania, he collides with the constant function 3, who is running in terror in the opposite direction. "What's wrong with you? Why don't you look where you're going?" demands e(x). He then sees the fear in 3's eyes and says "You look terrified!" "I am!" says the panicky 3. "There's a differential operator just around the corner. If he differentiates me, I'll be reduced to nothing! I've got to get away!" With that, 3 continues to dash off. "Stupid constant," thinks e(x). "I've got nothing to fear from a differential operator. He can keep differentiating me as long as he wants, and I'll still be there." So he scouts off to find the operator and gloat in his smooth glory. He rounds the corner and defiantly introduces himself to the operator. "Hi. I'm e(x)." "Hi. I'm d/dy." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 The cocky exponential function e(x) is strolling along the road insulting the functions he sees walking by. He scoffs at a wandering polynomial for the shortness of its Taylor series. He snickers at a passing smooth function of compact support and its glaring lack of a convergent power series about many of its points. He positively laughs as he passes |x| for being nondifferentiable at the origin. He smiles, thinking to himself, "Damn, it's great to be e(x). I'm real analytic everywhere. I'm my own derivative. I blow up faster than anybody and shrink faster too. All the other functions suck." Lost in his own egomania, he collides with the constant function 3, who is running in terror in the opposite direction. "What's wrong with you? Why don't you look where you're going?" demands e(x). He then sees the fear in 3's eyes and says "You look terrified!" "I am!" says the panicky 3. "There's a differential operator just around the corner. If he differentiates me, I'll be reduced to nothing! I've got to get away!" With that, 3 continues to dash off. "Stupid constant," thinks e(x). "I've got nothing to fear from a differential operator. He can keep differentiating me as long as he wants, and I'll still be there." So he scouts off to find the operator and gloat in his smooth glory. He rounds the corner and defiantly introduces himself to the operator. "Hi. I'm e(x)." "Hi. I'm d/dy."I posted this one like 3 years ago already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Forgive me. I'll submit another joke for your pardon. Re: Axiom of Choice What is an anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Forgive me. I'll submit another joke for your pardon. Re: Axiom of Choice What is an anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski And all four of them are Polish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Forgive me. I'll submit another joke for your pardon. Re: Axiom of Choice What is an anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 And all four of them are Polish. incredulousowl.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 e^{\frac{-1}{1-x^2}} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_function Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Reverse Polish notation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S2000magic Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Connected" and "locally connected" are technical terminology in analytic topology . . . .Any sort of topology, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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