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Post by larryh86gt on Jan 6, 2010 12:07:21 GMT -6
A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.. At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.
He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Attorney General said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.' They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, 'If Allah had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.' White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President.
It is believed that the Nobel Prize for Physics will follow----
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Post by sawduster on Jan 6, 2010 12:17:03 GMT -6
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Post by lockman on Jan 6, 2010 13:25:33 GMT -6
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Post by rrich on Jan 6, 2010 19:58:53 GMT -6
Sometimes a triangle doesn't have any sides but rather arcs.
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Post by dicklaxt on Jan 7, 2010 8:07:19 GMT -6
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Post by sawduster on Jan 7, 2010 8:50:56 GMT -6
Sometimes a triangle doesn't have any sides but rather arcs. Don't know what it would be called, but I don't think it would qualify as a "triangle" unless it is defined as three non-collinear points connected by line segments. Leastways, every definition of a triangle I can find has those requirements.
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Post by TDHofstetter on Jan 7, 2010 10:37:08 GMT -6
There are "hyperbolic triangles", and "spherical triangles". Then there are Bermuda triangles (technically a spherical triangle) and love triangles (which are just UNCOMFORTABLE)...
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Post by larryh86gt on Jan 7, 2010 10:53:41 GMT -6
There are "hyperbolic triangles", and "spherical triangles". and love triangles (which are just UNCOMFORTABLE)... Tim says in a knowing voice. ;D
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Post by rrich on Jan 7, 2010 20:55:15 GMT -6
Dick, It's a spherical triangel as Tim mentioned. They are used to lay out large tracts of land. As I recall from HS Trigonometry, the arcs are measured in degrees.
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Post by yknot on Jan 7, 2010 22:40:29 GMT -6
I have to declare myself "as a non-member of the intended non-party"
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