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Fun with Numbers - Jokes
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.- J. E. Littlewood.
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Teacher: If you had $750 in one pocket and $600 in the other pocket, what would you have?
Pupil: Somebody else’s pants.
Teacher: How old were you on your last birthday?
Student: Seven.
Teacher: How old will you be on your next birthday?
Student: Nine.
Teacher: That’s impossible.
Student: No, it isn’t, Sir. I’m eight today.
Question: Why was Six afraid of Seven?
Answer: Because 7, 8, 9. (Seven ate Nine)
Question: Why couldn’t the seven and the ten get married?
Answer: They were under eighteen.
Question: Simplify: 2x/(2x+1)
Answer: Cancel x in 2x/(2x+1)
So we get 1/(1+1)
Finally 1/2
Right?
Question: Expand: (x+a)n
Answer: ( x + a )n
( x . . . + .... a )n
( x ............... + ................a )n
How is it?
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