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S.C. Watson
March 23rd, 2005, 11:11 PM
AT NEW YORK's Kennedy airport today, an individual - later
discovered to be a public school teacher - was arrested
trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
protractor, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning
press conference, the U. S. Attorney General disclosed that
he believes the man to be a member of the notorious al-gebra
movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying
weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," he declared. "They seek
average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go
off on tangents in search of absolute value. They use
secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves
as 'unknowns,' but we have determined they belong to a
common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates
in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to
argue, there are three sides to every triangle."

When asked to comment on the arrest, the President stated,
"If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math
instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.
I am gratified that our government has shown us a sine that
it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs, who are
willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky
statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of
influence. Under the circumferences, we must differentiate
their root, make our point, and draw the line."

The President warned, "These weapons of math instruction
have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a
scalene never before seen, unless we become exponents of a
Higher Power and begin to factor in random facts of
vertex."

The Attorney General concluded, "As our Great Leader would
say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertain
of: though they continue to multiply, their days are
numbered as the hypotenuse tightens."
>:|

cotron
March 23rd, 2005, 11:57 PM
puns is funs

magicgoo
March 24th, 2005, 03:56 AM
Trinomials killed my entire family.

nicolas
March 24th, 2005, 08:08 AM
I heard killing them is useless.....they multiply rapidly...... :$

cotron
March 24th, 2005, 09:18 AM
exponentially, even.

S.C. Watson
March 24th, 2005, 09:29 AM
Geometric expansion into all factors of everday life :x

dogfood
March 24th, 2005, 11:01 AM
Yeah, my brother was a mathmagician, kinda like Alfred Einsteen.

MuffinMan
March 24th, 2005, 11:11 AM
screw algebra!

it's completley useless unless you want to calculate how precise and small a molecule is....

jfrancis
March 24th, 2005, 11:31 AM
The word "algebra" is derived from the Arabic word al-jabr. This term is found in Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi’s book The Comprehensive Book of Calculation by Balance and Opposition, written around the year 825. Balance is a translation of the word al-jabr, which eventually became algebra.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=algebra+arabic+word&btnG=Google+Search

dogfood
March 24th, 2005, 11:35 AM
The word "algebra" is derived from the Arabic word al-jabr. [/url]

Al Jabr is also an airbase in Kuwait.

S.C. Watson
March 24th, 2005, 11:39 AM
And, if I remember correctly, the "Al Jabar" was used by the Bene Gesseret (sp?) in Dune to determine whether someone was "Human" or "Animal".

Or was that the box. I recall the Al Jabar was held to Paul's throat tho, during the test.

I bring this up not so much because of the similiarity of name, but because I suspect that Frank Herbert did this purposefully, since he pulled so much from Arabic culture for many aspects of Dune.

And, I was thinking about it because Exo started a Dune thread someplace around here...

Ssenkrah Semaj
March 24th, 2005, 12:08 PM
LMAO! Oregano did you come up with that yourself? Genuis!

pissant
March 24th, 2005, 01:37 PM
Oregano: it's a "gom jabbar". Heh, I only know because I'm going through the book again and collecting all the descriptions for a little project I'll do when I can do it justice.

Can anyone remember a similar maths-based word-play but with a lot of innuendo? Can't remember where I saw it now, if I find it I'll post it.

Edit: found it here (http://www.textfiles.com/100/mathimp.txt) . Just had to inflict that one on everyone again.

S.C. Watson
March 24th, 2005, 03:11 PM
Oregano: it's a "gom jabbar".

LOL HAHAHA! Gad, I'm such a goon! In my defense, it has been like 10 years or so since I've read the book. Time to dig it out again!!

hehe. That was phunnie.

nicolas
March 24th, 2005, 03:29 PM
thus thread is...

http://www.missabigail.com/images/silly.gif

LaPalida
March 24th, 2005, 06:12 PM
Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi’s was born in the same place/area I was !!!! yay me. The word algorithm is a corruption/derivation of his name "al-Khwarizmi" He is often referred to as the "grandfather of computer science" since he developed the concept of algorithm. What do you know, a guy that lived in dirt since the beginning of time invented the algorithm .... >:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi