A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer are led into a long room. At the other end stands a beautiful naked woman. "When I ring this bell," she says" you may cross half the space between us. When I ring the bell again, you may again cross half the space between us." Both the mathematician and physicist groan and wander off. "Ah, it's Zeno's paradox, we can never actually reach her." The engineer, waiting for the bell, says "I think I can get close enough."
why is there a naked woman?
Because humanity has no other desires between math and tits apparently.
Can confirm.
(I'm both a mathematician and a pervert)
Only straight men are mathematicians, physicists and engineers. This is why the joke is framed this way.
See: responses from OP, valiantly defending his choice to "piss people off", instead of noticing the joke is just yet another reminder that men are default.
After all, sexism is over, and STEM isn't hostile to women/non-heteronormative people. It's all in our head.
What a .ml tier comment lmao
Yay we got instance racism in lemmy!
When they can learn to behave themselves and stop giving the dumbest takes in every discussion, they can have my respect back.
Hi there friend, I am here to inform you that many woman also like the titty. Gay girls exist my friend, and the gender of the three professionals is never specified.
I'll assume ya ain't trying to be homophobic my buddy but I hope you keep that in mind for future refference.
Edit racism comment was another guy, sorry, very tired
I’m not going to spend much time engaging with your comment because you didn’t read mine well.
I did not mention race.
I included mention of gay folks (see non-heteronormative). The “joke” doesn’t work unless the stem major desires being very close to a naked woman, so I don’t find your mention of gay men to make sense.
that's the vibe i'm getting, but it's a really fucking weird premise for a hypothetical regardless.
"there are a fisher, a farmer, and a welder in a bar, on the other side is cthulhu" is basically how it's worded
Also mathematicians: here's this cool new thing, I called it "infinitesimal"
In computer engineering we have positive and negative zero.
Also in Math.
What algebra uses negative 0?
IEEE 754
I mean it's an algebra, isn't it? And it definitely was mathematicians who came up with the thing. In the same way that artists didn't come up with the CGI colour palette.
I'm not familiar with IEEE 754.
Edit: I think this sort of space shouldn't be the kind where people get downvoted for admitting ignorance honestly, but maybe that's just me.
It's a wonderful world where 1 / 0 is ∞ and 1 / -0 is -∞, making a lot of high school teachers very very mad. OTOH it's also a very strange world where x = y does not imply 1 / x = 1 / y. But it is, very emphatically, an algebra.
Mostly it's pure numerology, at least from the POV of most of the people using it.
And, as a mathematician who has been coding a library to create scaled geometric graphics for his paper, I hate -0.0.
Seriously, I run every number where sign determines action through a function I call "fix_zero" just because tiny tiny rounding errors pile up in floats, even is numpy.
What do you mean? In two's complement, there is only one zero.
IEEE 754 floating point numbers have a signed bit at the front, causing +0 and -0 to exist.
Specifically I was referring to standard float representation which permits signed zeros. However, other comments provide some interesting examples also.
floats
Limit x->0 { x } = 0 ? Noway
Wait do you actually say "limit" instead of "limes" in English?
Yeah, I was gonna say... Calculus is all about saying it's infinitely approaching zero so let's assume it is zero.
i mean, mathematically speaking, every number that isn't zero, is further away from zero, than the number before it.
So there is a point to the statement of "approaching zero" as well "near zero" and "about zero" since 100 probably isn't about zero.
Also CS nerds would like to fight you about floating point values.
Whoa slow down there buddy. Proposing numbers before numbers like they are a given.
sin(x) ~= 0
cosmologists: sin(x) ~= 10
The infinitesimal has entered the chat.
lets ignore the higher order terms for now. five lines below look at this beautiful exact equality that we got
What about large values of zero?
Trivial
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