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Re: Free form/Chaos Thread
A pleasing fact from David Wells’ Archimedes Mathematics Education Newsletter:
Draw two parallel lines. Fix a point on one line and move a second point along the other line. If an equilateral triangle is constructed with these two points as two of its vertices, then as the second point moves, the third vertex of the triangle will trace out a straight line.
Thanks to reader Matthew Scroggs for the tip and the GIF.
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A pleasing fact from David Wells’ Archimedes Mathematics Education Newsletter:
Draw two parallel lines. Fix a point on one line and move a second point along the other line. If an equilateral triangle is constructed with these two points as two of its vertices, then as the second point moves, the third vertex of the triangle will trace out a straight line.
Thanks to reader Matthew Scroggs for the tip and the GIF.
http://www.futilitycloset.com/
- Mar 16, 2009
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Re: Free form/Chaos Thread
The other day I was at a funeral when the person next to me asked me, "Rabbi, what's the wifi password at the cemetery?"
I told him, "Have some respect for the dead!"
"Thank you Rabbi," the person replied.
After a pause, he asked, "Is that all lower case?"
http://www.jumbojoke.com/always_online.html
The other day I was at a funeral when the person next to me asked me, "Rabbi, what's the wifi password at the cemetery?"
I told him, "Have some respect for the dead!"
"Thank you Rabbi," the person replied.
After a pause, he asked, "Is that all lower case?"
http://www.jumbojoke.com/always_online.html
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Re: Free form/Chaos Thread
Financial Topics Explained
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."
The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man or his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.
Financial Topics Explained
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."
The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man or his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.
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Holy crap..definition of trump and Failin..ooops, wrong section..mods can move if they wish..recently returned...
krebs303 said:
Holy crap..definition of trump and Failin..ooops, wrong section..mods can move if they wish..recently returned...
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