The engineer and the mathematician

[Qacer]

A (male) Mathematician and a (male) Engineer who knew each other, had both been invited to the same party. They were standing at one corner of the room and eyeing a particularly attractive girl in the opposite corner.

'Wow, she looks pretty good,' said the Engineer. 'I think I'll go over there and try my luck.'

'Impossible, and out of the question!' said the Mathematician, who was thinking much the same but wasn't as forthright.

'And why is it impossible?' asked the Engineer belligerently.

'Because,' said the Mathematician, thinking quickly, 'In order to get to her, you will firrst have to get halfway. And then you will have to get half of the rest of the distance, and then half of that. And so on; in short, you can never get there in a finite number of moves.'

The Engineer gave a cheerful grin.

'Maybe so,' he replied, 'But in a finite number of moves, I can get as close as I need to be for all practical purposes.'

And he made his moves.

 

[Colt45]

And got denied.

 

[Howard]

'Twould be a poor mathematician to fall prey to such illogic.

 

[ItTheCow]

1/10

 

[Inspector Jihad]

awful

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: ItTheCow
1/10

try 0/10. You cannot even get a little chuckle.

 

[JohnCU]

lim 1/x for x->inf / 10

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Howard
'Twould be a poor mathematician to fall prey to such illogic.

Fool! The mathematician was using it in an attempt to confuse the engineer so that the mathematician could go after her first. Usually, attempts to confuse engineers work, especially when made by mathematicians. Even though it's a joke, I'm surprised it didn't work. 😛

 

[Cogman]

So the mathematician was trying to make the engineer's head explode by using blatant illogic! EVIL!

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Is that the joke the engineer used to get the girl?

 

[Mucho]

The mathematician could have easily said: statistical speaking you have no chance with a beautiful woman.

 

[her209]

That joke was terrible bro.

 

[jman19]

boooo-urns

 

[dman]

This thread is useless without humor.

http://www.xkcd.com/c1.html
click next until funny found, the first few are just sketches, I think around 18++ they start getting better. Also, be sure to read the alt.tags.

If you don't like my nomination, no problem but please add your alternative.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

was about as funny as watching a cat take a dump

 

[FilmCamera]

Wait a minute...this was supposed to be funny?

 

[Regs]

I made farts funnier than that.

 

[Qacer]

According to some survey, Canadians have the weakest sense of humor (http://www.time.com/time/magaz...0,9171,361591,00.html). Any of you Canucks? 🙂 LOL.

 

[middlehead]

Originally posted by: jman19
boooo-urns

 

[us3rnotfound]

I did not even move a muscle after reading that.

 

[FusionKnight]

The philsopher Zeno was famous for his paradoxes. The logic used in the "joke" above is the grounding principle of this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes#The_dichotomy_paradox

Note that Zeno didn't use this as a joke. Neither should you.

FK

Edit: An easier link. http://tinyurl.com/eedp6

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: FusionKnight
The philsopher Zeno was famous for his paradoxes. The logic used in the "joke" above is the grounding principle of this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes#The_dichotomy_paradox

Note that Zeno didn't use this as a joke. Neither should you.

FK

Edit: An easier link. http://tinyurl.com/eedp6

fortunately we have calculus now. Sorry Zeno.

 

[GasX]

Two nerds talking about how they are gonna bag a girl that's out of their league.

Does there need to be a punchline?

 

[dighn]

There are funny nerdy jokes, but that wasn't one :thumbsdown:

 

[tm37]

I am still waiting for the punchline