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by **Hammurabi** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:40 am

Oh I do so love these get-togethers of ours!

by **Kimra** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:06 am

Dear Lethal and DR,

I couldn't remember the letter form, but I suppose such considerations would be beyond a pair of snot rags like you.

And I didn't feel like being insulting. Dicks.

Regards,
Kimra

p.s. The crusts will be cut off. Monocles are expected. And you may both attend as well.

by **DonRetrasado** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:32 am

Preferably accompanied with a string of obscenities.

by **Lethal Interjection** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:33 am

Kimra wrote:Kaharz, want to come to a party? We have triangle sandwiches!

This should have been expressed in a formal letter.

by **Kaharz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:09 pm

Kimra wrote:Kaharz, want to come to a party? We have triangle sandwiches!

Are the crusts cut off? I just want to know to know if it is a classy party and I should wear my tux, top hat and monocle. I'll come crusts or no crusts.

by **Kimra** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:50 pm

Kaharz, want to come to a party? We have triangle sandwiches!

by **DonRetrasado** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:07 pm

gobaskof wrote:Kaharz, please learn to understand sarcasm, and a sense of humour. The joke wears off when one has to explain it, but the point was to be overly anal in a clearly sarcastic way, then complain about not being invited to parties. I assume you are also not invited to parties? That is probably because you're a grumpy ass.

However, if you do want to be anal then I will point out that mathematically it only really makes sense to talk about sine in terms of radians. Calculus, Euler's formula, small angle approximation, Taylor series, everything in maths uses radians. They are crap for every day situations so people use degrees, in maths we use radians. Radians are a ratio are a dimensionless quantity and have no units.

YOU ARE EDUCATED SINGULARITY, TOO STUPID AND EVIL TO UNDERSTAND TIME RADIAN

by **Kaharz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:11 pm

gobaskof wrote:Kaharz, please learn to understand sarcasm, and a sense of humour.

Sarcasm can be hard to pick up on when you have no non-verbal cues to go by. Please be more clear when you are attempting to be sarcastic.

I may not be anywhere close to being a physicist or mathematician, but I did have to take some of both as part of engineering. I can't say whether mathematicians and physicists only use radians, but in my classes and in the real world, we use both radians and degrees. The mathematicians and physicists I do know typically use whatever is easiest. We used degree measurements far more commonly, since as you said, they are often much easier to work with. I don't think I ever saw the angle a vector departs from perpendicular to the direction of gravity expressed in radians in any kinematics problems.

Oh and I do get invited to parties. When I'm surrounded by my friends, I don't act like a grumpy asshole for the simple reason that they are my friends and I don't choose friends who annoy the crap out of me. When there are people who do they usually annoy my friends too and my grumpiness is sometimes exploited by my friends to drive those people away.

by **Dane Raider** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:59 pm

I'm guessing this means gobaskof is not really a physicist.

by **GUTCHUCKER** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:57 pm

What the fuck?

by **gobaskof** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

Kaharz, please learn to understand sarcasm, and a sense of humour. The joke wears off when one has to explain it, but the point was to be overly anal in a clearly sarcastic way, then complain about not being invited to parties. I assume you are also not invited to parties? That is probably because you're a grumpy ass.

However, if you do want to be anal then I will point out that mathematically it only really makes sense to talk about sine in terms of radians. Calculus, Euler's formula, small angle approximation, Taylor series, everything in maths uses radians. They are crap for every day situations so people use degrees, in maths we use radians. Radians are a ratio are a dimensionless quantity and have no units.

by **Kaharz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:19 am

Oldrac the Chitinous wrote:Easy, Hoss.

Angle units are generally considered to be dimensionless. A radian, for example, is the ratio of a circumference to a radius, so it's length over length.

Meh, still a unit even if it is a derived, dimensionless one. There is a big difference between the sine of say 3.14 radian and 3.14 degrees. It matters what units you are using even if they are dimensionless. Mostly I was just peeved that gobaskof apparently didn't bother to read to previous explanations of the joke and was being all high and mighty physicist and seemed to be scoffing at those who weren't.

by **Kimra** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:42 am

I'm not surprised you didn't get it. It was a terribly original joke after all.

by **Apocalyptus** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:46 am

Oh so the joke was that mathematicians never get laid? Well that makes more sense, and also completely went over my head.
My apologies, Kimra.

by **Kimra** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:40 am

Apocalyptus wrote:
Kimra wrote:I think this is all very silly. No-one who knows things about math see anyone's penis but their own anyway.
This is discriminatory to all those gay mathematicians out there. What about them, Kimra?

Wait. You think because they're gay they're getting some? Fool woman.

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