i was surprised that there are 7.5 gallons in a cubic foot of water--you look at a gallon of milk and it doesn't seem right

7/19/2007 5:36:42 PM

I get 3.77123395021334765188e-6 cubic sqrt(acre), using 1030 kg/m^3 for seawater density.

^look at a box that's 1 ft on each edge you could fit 3 or 4 milk jugs into it with plenty of space in between.

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 5:39 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2007 5:38:35 PM

How many games are played in the NCAA tournament? (excepting the stupid game where #64 plays #65)

7/19/2007 5:39:31 PM

63 losers in 63 games.

7/19/2007 5:51:13 PM

Quote :

"i took 50 mg diphenhydramine 3 hours ago and it just hit a few minutes ago."

that shit gives me akathisia if i take too much of it, it's fucking horrible

7/19/2007 6:24:07 PM

add all the integers from 1 to 100

7/19/2007 6:25:57 PM

5050

oh yeah, now i remember--it's 50*100+50 b/c it's (100+0) + (99+1) + (98 + 2) etc

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 6:32 PM. Reason : ...]

7/19/2007 6:26:47 PM

^^100*101/2 = 5050

who supposedly came up with this formula in his grade school class?

7/19/2007 6:30:48 PM

Gauss

7/19/2007 6:55:26 PM

I was homeschooled and one day my mom said I could take the rest of the school day off if I could tell her what the sum of all the integers from 1 to 1,000,000 was. I just said that since the numbers are evenly spaced, the average was (1,000,000 + 1) / 2. The sum was then the average times the number of numbers (1,000,000).

She didn't let me take the rest of the day off even though I was right.

7/19/2007 7:30:58 PM

the first question isnt possible because flood control limits you to one post every 45 seconds

7/19/2007 7:48:42 PM

A typical regular sheet of paper is 0.1 mm thick.

You fold it in half, then half again, and you do this 50 times.

How high is the folded sheet after the last fold?

How many folds are needed to reach (or go beyond) the sun? Distance to sun = 150 million km.

7/19/2007 7:50:12 PM

you cant fold a single sheet of paper 50 times

the question is flawed

7/19/2007 7:50:54 PM

wow, here comes the idiot.

this is a math question.

actually, you can even calculate how large a sheet of paper should be so that you can fold it X number of times.


[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 7:59 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2007 7:58:50 PM

no it is a flawed question

have you seen mythbusters?

nevermind, you wouldnt have seen it

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:00 PM. Reason : at least i didnt piss myself once i was out of diapers

7/19/2007 7:59:24 PM

jesus you moron.

i know it can only be done 6 or 7 times with a letter sized paper.

this is a MATH QUESTION


[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:01 PM. Reason : but you are pissing yourself now over a math question you apparently can't solve.]

7/19/2007 8:00:24 PM

well there is no size of paper that you can fold 50 times

your question is flawed

7/19/2007 8:01:09 PM

lets do differential shit

say someone drunk a liter of cola, (RAMROD)

and they go to bed

now say they piss the bed at a rate of .09liters/sec

how long will it take for them to piss the entire liter if they taper off exponentially at the end?

7/19/2007 8:02:55 PM

hey it is ok... no need to feel jealous if you can't do it.

a lot of questions in this thread have been hypothetical.

have you ever opened a math/physics text book?

obviously not.

7/19/2007 8:02:58 PM

well obviously if i can point out that it is flawed i must be able to use logic and reasoning

really the only things you have to be able to do to solve a math problem

7/19/2007 8:04:26 PM

oh i get it... you are trolling me!

damn me for falling for your trolling.

troll away as much as want.

Question for everybody else:

Quote :

"A typical regular sheet of paper is 0.1 mm thick. You fold it in half, then half again, and you do this 50 times. How high is the folded sheet after the last fold? How many folds are needed to reach (or go beyond) the sun? Distance to sun = 150 million km."

7/19/2007 8:05:59 PM

why would you waste your time trying to solve a flawed question

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:06:52 PM

Quote :

"i took 50 mg diphenhydramine 3 hours ago and it just hit a few minutes ago. i am hallucinating "

hahahahha i used to have to take that stuff about 6 caps at a time when i was becoming a sober gentleman. never did anything for me but put me out (Eventually)

7/19/2007 8:08:15 PM

Actually, mathematically speaking (which is all that matters here, as it is a MATH thread), the question is not flawed.

It is perfectly valid. PWNT

So you lose even in trying to troll me.


^ Read my post in the sleeping pills thread in the Lounge!!!


[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:11 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2007 8:10:01 PM

no actually it is a flawed question because you cant fold a piece of paper 50 times

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:11:10 PM

ASSUME THE PAPER IS LARGE ENOUGH THAT IT CAN BE FOLDED 50 TIMES.

The paper they constructed on Mythbusters could probably have been folded 20 times. The reason they didn't fold it that many times is because they changed the direction of folding after each fold (thereby folding the creases -- which are the thickest part -- every time). The optimum way to fold the paper is to fold it across the same axis as many times as possible, then rotate it and fold it as many times as possible across the perpendicular axis. TRY IT YOURSELF.

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:19 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2007 8:11:29 PM

you cant fold a piece of paper 50 times

the question is flawed

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:12:45 PM

The thickness is doubling each time

so after 50 folds, the paper is 112,589,990,684,262.4 mm thick

so thats about to the sun in just 50 folds

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:13 PM. Reason : exponential growth ftw]

7/19/2007 8:13:06 PM

you cant put toothpaste back in the tube

7/19/2007 8:13:31 PM

cut the tube in half and scoop it in

7/19/2007 8:14:22 PM

fjjackso: Yes, about 2/3 of the way to the sun in 50 folds, and beyond the sun on the 51st fold.

Assonado: GG for trolling the fuck out of me.

Stinger: There are sooooooooo many ways to do it, without destroying/cutting the tube. Google is your friend.

7/19/2007 8:15:51 PM

you cant fold a piece of paper 50 times

the question is flawed

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:17:08 PM

mr. wizard back in the 80s tried to take a giant sheet of paper to see if it could be folded more than 8 times. it couldn't

7/19/2007 8:18:54 PM

Quote :

"From : Aficionado To : 0EPII1 Received : Thursday July 19, 2007 at 8:16 PM Subject : you know why your question is flawed pure math is worthless for real life problems it is flawed in an engineering sense oh and dont piss on yourself ok "

You fail at reading:

Quick Math

Actually, mathematically speaking (which is all that matters here, as it is a MATH thread), the question is not flawed.


And we know you fail at math too, which is what started your barrage of trolling.

Fail at math AND reading.

Wow, you suck.

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:20 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2007 8:19:14 PM

question has been answered,

next.

7/19/2007 8:19:32 PM

i was waiting for that

thx for taking the bait

the question is flawed

you cant fold a sheet of paper 50 times

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:20:20 PM

SHUT THE FUCK UP AFICIONADO

7/19/2007 8:21:24 PM

wow you are really not even trolling anymore... if there was humor i'd enjoy it but now you're just being gay

7/19/2007 8:21:43 PM

the question is flawed

you cant fold a sheet of paper 50 times

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:21:51 PM

airplane & treadmill?

7/19/2007 8:23:01 PM

thank god for the TWW block user plug-in

The treadmill does not prevent the forward motion of the plane and therefore the plane can take off normally.

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 8:24 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2007 8:23:12 PM

the question is flawed

you cant fold a sheet of paper 50 times

the result is meaningless

7/19/2007 8:23:50 PM

I'll fold your mom in half 50 times 8 ways till sunday

7/19/2007 8:46:15 PM

wow this thread degenerated quickly--tdub you continue to impress me

7/19/2007 9:20:32 PM

np

7/19/2007 9:20:53 PM

You have 5 min, go!!!!

7/19/2007 9:22:27 PM

that looks like something from the asvab

7/19/2007 9:29:44 PM

^^that might stump some of my precalculus students...here's a problem from one of their tests:

3x=5
-3 -3
x=2

7/19/2007 9:34:47 PM

^HAHAHAHA

7/19/2007 10:11:29 PM

when i was in 3rd grade, the teacher used to call ~10 students to the front of the class and do as many of these type problems as they could in 60 seconds. whoever won got a candy bar. obviously, i won most of the time

7/19/2007 10:30:33 PM