My son just told me that his new Fibonacci joke is as bad as the previous two Fibonacci jokes put together. Brent
That is excellent. Cris
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My son just told me that his new Fibonacci joke is as bad as the previous two Fibonacci jokes put together.
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Fibonacci: as easy 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ... -- Stephen Lucas, Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics MSC 1911, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA Phone 540 568 5104, Fax 540 568 6857, Web http://educ.jmu.edu/~lucassk/ Email lucassk at jmu dot edu (Work) stephen.k.lucas at gmail dot com (Other) Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. (Plato) On Feb 17, 2020, at 6:24 PM, Cris Moore via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:math-fun@mailman.xmission.com>> wrote: That is excellent. Cris On Feb 17, 2020, at 4:22 PM, Brent Meeker via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:math-fun@mailman.xmission.com>> wrote: My son just told me that his new Fibonacci joke is as bad as the previous two Fibonacci jokes put together. Brent _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg...
Listen for the words "One, Two, Three, Five!" 3 minutes and 25 seconds into "The Logical Song". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=low6Coqrw9Y Is Supertramp celebrating illogic, or are they fans of the Fibonacci sequence? Jim Propp On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 6:27 PM Lucas, Stephen K - lucassk <lucassk@jmu.edu> wrote:
Fibonacci: as easy 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ...
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That is excellent. Cris
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The first time I heard that was from Dan Piponi in 2016: https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/776420034419658752 Anyone have an earlier reference? On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:23 PM Brent Meeker via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
My son just told me that his new Fibonacci joke is as bad as the previous two Fibonacci jokes put together.
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The Fibonacho gag ("How much does a large order of Fibonachos cost? It’s the price of a medium order plus the price of a small order.") dates back at least to 1995, probably much older. See http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/doc/math.jokes.txt On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:36 PM Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
The first time I heard that was from Dan Piponi in 2016: https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/776420034419658752 Anyone have an earlier reference?
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The joke"Heisenberg may have slept here." has an addendum"But not with Pauli." -- Gene On Monday, February 17, 2020, 5:01:34 PM PST, Tom Duff <td@pixar.com> wrote: The Fibonacho gag ("How much does a large order of Fibonachos cost? It’s the price of a medium order plus the price of a small order.") dates back at least to 1995, probably much older. See http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/doc/math.jokes.txt On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:36 PM Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
The first time I heard that was from Dan Piponi in 2016: https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/776420034419658752 Anyone have an earlier reference?
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:23 PM Brent Meeker via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
My son just told me that his new Fibonacci joke is as bad as the previous two Fibonacci jokes put together.
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I think NASA proved that counting is not time-reversal invariant. Brent On 2/17/2020 4:09 PM, Veit Elser wrote:
So they get better when you go back in time?
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My son just told me that his new Fibonacci joke is as bad as the previous two Fibonacci jokes put together.
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For a while. Then they oscillate wildly between wonderful and terrible. C
On Feb 17, 2020, at 5:09 PM, Veit Elser <ve10@cornell.edu> wrote:
So they get better when you go back in time?
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