Two mathematicians walk into in a bar.
The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math.
The first mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the second calls over the waitress. He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has returned, he will call her over and ask her a question. All she has to do is answer “one third x cubed.”
She repeats: “one thir — dex cue?”
He repeats “one third x cubed.”
“One thir dex cuebd?”
“Yes, that’s right”, he says.
So she agrees, and goes off mumbling to herself, “one thir dex cuebd… one thir dex cuebd… one thir dex cuebd…”
The first guy returns and the second proposes a bet to prove his point, that most people do know something about basic math. He says he will ask the blonde waitress an integral, and the first laughingly agrees.
The second man calls over the waitress and asks “What is the integral of x squared?”
The waitress says “one third x cubed” and while walking away, turns back and adds with a wink “…plus a constant.”
There’s also a nice variation on this.
>.< always forget that constant myself. Friend of mine missed the A by two points cuz of that.
Comment by Jack — 03.1.09 @
That’s funny ^^
Comment by Camille — 03.1.09 @
ok thank you.
Comment by Bukator — 03.1.09 @
Work on it!
Comment by Dave — 03.1.09 @
This isn’t very funny :\
Comment by Anonymous — 03.1.09 @
I really enjoyed this. I’m a math major in college, and I just find this very enjoyable.
Comment by Amy — 03.1.09 @
dumb
Comment by this — 03.1.09 @
yesssss. math jokes
Comment by strange fox — 03.1.09 @
Wow, I’ll marry that girl!!!
Comment by Gabo Mulder — 03.1.09 @
Sexiest Waitress ever.
Comment by John — 03.1.09 @
AMAZING!
Comment by errgle — 03.2.09 @
Aww, I thought it was cute!
Comment by c — 03.2.09 @
…I don’t get it.
Comment by Anon — 03.2.09 @
I don’t get it.
Comment by Tushar — 03.2.09 @
Amazing! That was funny and brilliant. Nice one!
Comment by Legend — 03.3.09 @
[...] Here is a clever variation on the classic Two mathematicians walk into a bar. [...]
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That was funny. The problem is that people who know math have NO SENSE OF HOUMOR!!! They would find something like this funny: Newton was wrong when he said F=MA it really is F=MA+O where O is the force in the other direction. HA HA HA. I’m laughing so hard.
Comment by AJ00200 — 03.9.09 @
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! That’s embarrassing!!!
Comment by Snell — 03.11.09 @
i was not aware that integrals were basic math, basic calc yes but not so much basic math
Comment by Chris — 03.13.09 @
For the self appointed genius at spelling and typing (jimmy), who posted comment no.3. “But if your going to post something, fucking learn how to spell and type properly”. Now please do ever so kindly explain to me the third word in your post. Thank you.
Comment by bl_666 — 03.18.09 @