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Title: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: klogan45 on February 06, 2014, 06:33:18 PM
Why did the chicken cross the moebeus strip?
To get to the same side!!


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: Olds on February 06, 2014, 06:53:01 PM
 ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: BikerGran on February 06, 2014, 08:36:53 PM
Don't know why I'm even looking at this thread!

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One for the maths buffs among us

 :-\


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: oldmetalhead82 on February 07, 2014, 10:36:34 PM
Same goes for me BG!


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: merv on February 08, 2014, 05:26:31 PM
And me,


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: poprodder on February 08, 2014, 09:37:24 PM
and me.


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: BikerGran on February 09, 2014, 01:12:52 PM
I feel better already!

 ;D


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: peewee on February 11, 2014, 08:30:43 PM
Ha.ve I just been had


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: Manky Monkey on February 11, 2014, 09:46:33 PM
Maths has always been like a foreign language to me. My secondary school maths teacher actually took me to one side one day & said You're obviously just never going to understand this. If you promise to sit quietly at the back of the room & not distract the other boys, I'll leave you alone & not ask you anything.
Basic adding, subtracting etc, that's my limit. Even now words like logarithm & trigonometry make my blood run cold.


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: Olds on February 11, 2014, 09:52:05 PM
Ha.ve I just been had
No  :)


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: klogan45 on February 12, 2014, 09:25:17 AM
Hey Andy you are not the only one to have a teacher say that to him.....guess who else that happened to.....yep ME!!
I couldn't get a grip with maths at school, to be honest i wasn't that interested anyway, just wanted to do wood and metal work so only picked up the maths skills in later life, there are still things that i can't do,not always been a teacher i had loads of 'proper' jobs first.  ;D



Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: klogan45 on February 12, 2014, 09:27:01 AM
Thanks for the pic, O N, using the ipad so cant post pics,


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: andyrennison on February 12, 2014, 09:28:01 AM
The replies all seem a little one-sided to me.


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: Olds on February 12, 2014, 09:33:24 AM
The replies all seem a little one-sided to me.
;D ;D ;D
Can't see an end to this.   


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: BikerGran on February 12, 2014, 02:25:59 PM
Maths has always been like a foreign language to me. My secondary school maths teacher actually took me to one side one day & said You're obviously just never going to understand this. If you promise to sit quietly at the back of the room & not distract the other boys, I'll leave you alone & not ask you anything.
Basic adding, subtracting etc, that's my limit. Even now words like logarithm & trigonometry make my blood run cold.

We have a lot in common - I was hauled up in front of the class for not doing my Algebra homework.  The teacher ranted "How do you expect to pass your algebra exam?"

I said "I don't, Miss Smith"

She looked at me, sighed, and said "Go and sit down."


And in fact, the lack of algebra has never held me back!


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: klogan45 on February 12, 2014, 07:34:23 PM
ALGEBRA ? Its all greek to me. ;D ;D


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: klogan45 on February 12, 2014, 07:36:33 PM
So.......... Where do mathematicians of no orientation go for a drink in the nude?





A moebeus strip club! :-[

Btw....im NOT a mathematician!!!


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: Tony oily bike on February 13, 2014, 10:42:52 AM
Good old Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip   says the following:

The Möbius strip or Möbius band (UK /ˈmɜrbiəs/ or US /ˈmoʊbiəs/; German: [ˈmøːbi̯ʊs]), also Mobius or Moebius, is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.

I'm guessing the name Möbius / Mobius is a bit unusual (at least in English speaking parts).
So, just wondering if it was used as inspiration in the great Sci-Fi classic "Forbidden Planet", as the chap the spaceship crew finds on planet Altair IV is Dr Morbius............

I'll get me coat!



Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: hornet6 on February 13, 2014, 08:57:13 PM
Actually...forbidden planet is based around shakespears "The tempest"
From a sci-fi geek.


Title: Re: One for the maths buffs among us.
Post by: Olds on February 13, 2014, 09:28:52 PM
Morbius is a name use in at least three sci fi areas and never in a good way. Forbidden planet, in Marvel comics as a vampire and in Dr Who as a malevolent time lord.
From not a sci fi geek ( I think  ;) ).