test-animal.jpg

Ms. I can't read the question, there's a bear in the way.


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Thanks, Calculus!!


test-pen.jpg

My goat is in a pen.


train-question.jpg

Bonus points for this guy!
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Some math fails

Aug 31, 2010  
26 billion will tune in!

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Answer fail

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I don't understand basic math...

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The "six" of diamonds

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Remember kids, always do the math before you buy!! Don't let businesses trick you.


deodarant-price-fail.jpg



battery-price-fail.jpg
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Go 2 grd skool, k?

Aug 26, 2010  
grad-school-txt.jpg

This makes me want to go to Graduate School so bad!
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Yahoo question math fail

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Oh google...

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Comcast fail


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Lost i-pod WIN


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Chauffeur math fail

Aug 22, 2010  
chauffeur math fail
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Adding temperatures

Aug 16, 2010  
celsius multiplication



Although this looks like a math fail, this one is easy to explain, as Celsius is a relative scale, Google converts to an absolute scale to do the math (Kelvin) - it wouldn't make sense otherwise.

0C = 273.15K, 0C + 0C = 273.15K + 273.15K = 546.3K = 273.15C
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Pi fail

Aug 5, 2010  
Pi is not 22/7!

pi fail
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Pythagorean theorem fail

Jul 29, 2010  
Richard over at Tales of the Golem; or, the Modern Epimetheus claims to have "convincing experimental disproof of Pythagoras's theorem!"

pythagorean disproof

In the first picture, the water covers the area a^2+b^2 while in the third picture, it covers an area larger than that of c^2. Thus, a^2+b^2 > c^2. Guess all of mathematics was wrong! ;-)
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Hotels.com discount fail

Jul 27, 2010  
Special rate: Stay one night and save 0% off your stay!


hotel savings


Thanks to Joshua Z. for pointing this out!
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Saving money

Jul 21, 2010  
save-money

That's pretty good! You can save up to 25% if you go to college for 3 years instead of 4.

cost chart

What if I bring my cat with me?
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Facebook Math

Jul 20, 2010  
facebook-gandalf



facebook-math-book



facebook-rotate



facebook-pi



pi mind blown
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Geometry fails

Jul 10, 2010  
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algebra.png
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ATM and captchas

Jul 9, 2010  
atm math question



captcha-riemann-hypothesis
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Test answer

Jun 24, 2010  
attack test
I can't answer the problems because there was a terrorist attack on my test.
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Failed da math test...

Jun 19, 2010  
mcdonalds math failed test


Maybe if they had the Math Note they wouldn't have failed the test!! (spoiler)

math note
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This is silly. On the tv show "American Chopper", they have trouble figuring out a simple calculation.

american chopper vs the metric system
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Alicia Yeargin has a few excellent pictures for the math geeks. The first one is computing the surface area of a cylindar *snicker snicker*

math cylindar penis surface area


The second one is a nice little comic about bias:


math bias comic

The third is something silly she wrote on her math test. She says:
"An actual picture of a MAT140 test I took. (At least the grader seemed mildly amused.)"

math test fail
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Sudoku fail

Jun 14, 2010  
sudoku fail


sudoku fail again

That was easy. Didn't even have to lift my pencil!!

sudoku fail again


Sorry blondes (no offence and I didn't make the joke hehehe):

sudoku for blondes
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What's 9 and 5?

Jun 14, 2010  
math-and-grammar.jpg

Which would you say?

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Yahoo math fail

May 30, 2010  
yahoo-fail.jpg

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A geometry teacher used the example "as­sassinating President Bar­ack Obama" as a way to teach angles to his geome­try students. He was teaching the students about parallel lines and angles and used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama. 

He said:

"If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president."

Authorities were called and the high school math teacher was questioned by the Secret Service, but was later let go as he didn't pose a threat.




Link to story.
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TV

May 16, 2010  

Sounds about right...
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lamebook math fail

Again?! Ouch.


facebook math fail

This doesn't surprise me as I deal with Ph.D.'s everyday.
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We hate math!

May 12, 2010  
majority


"We hate math," says 4 in 10 - a majority of Americans
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This one comes from the geek subreddit where user dzudz writes about his biggest "But you're wrong! You have to believe me!" moment (only counting topics that are scientifically proven to be wrong, nothing up to interpretation):

"Oh god. This one still pains me. In a trivia contest with some of my co-workers, one of the questions was "What is pi to 5 decimal places?". Easy - I immediately wrote 3.14159 on our answer sheet. Next question.

This is where it gets ugly. One member of our team was the ex-boss of the company, an old loud guy used to getting his way. He scrubs out my answer and imperiously announces that pi is 22 over 7, thank you very much. I start to explain that this is not right, but ALL of my co-workers have already whipped out their mobile phones and are dividing 22 by 7. ALL OF THEM.

I try to explain that 22/7 is an approximation that you give to young students to help them practice fractions, but to no avail. I even resort to the "I teach maths and am way smarter than you" tactic but it fails. Somebody writes down what 22/7 is, the ex-boss is smiling triumphantly at me, and my horror is complete.

Postscript: To demonstrate his superiority, ex-boss then 'overrules' every answer I provide for the rest of the night in a similar fashion, to the awe and accolades of the rest of the team, and we finish a predictable dead last."

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Funny Venn Diagrams

May 1, 2010  












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Silly test answer

Apr 27, 2010  
secret math question

Nice try, but you still lose the marks Mr Student!
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(via Reddit)
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Online Math Class...Fail


Thanks to Kei for this submission! And sorry you got the answer not correct... :-)
He says:
"I did click "No" lol ( That is why there is no red "x" ) Sorry...but still nice work ahahh"

*If you have something funny related to math, then submit it to MathFail using our submission page and it might be posted. Cheers!
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There's lots of crackpots on the internet (and off the internet) who don't understand some of the basics in mathematics. This person claims that:

"In 4,000 years of mathematics no one has been able to show a ratio for pi. We will show just how to produce that ratio. They state that pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and then go on to prove that there is no ratio. Therefore concluding that the ratio is only a mere approximation of a true value. You will be surprised about how to establish a ratio for pi as well as how to prove that the present day calculation for pi is invalid."
They later go on to prove that pi = 201 / 64 by using "addition - subtraction - multiplication - division and square root extraction".

Located at PureMathTheory.com.


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The first one is how to cheer up your friend...

spiked math one testicle comic

Just don't tell him he should have one ovary :P


statistics show one testicle and one ovary


This actually appeared in a textbook...
yahoo answers fail
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Addition Fail

Mar 31, 2010  
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This is pretty funny (via the consumerist).

Comcast sent a letter to this guy named Aaron demanding he pays -$0.05 to avoid interruption in service.

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The below is confusing. It's titled "Mathmatical proof that Darwin didn't exist?". But wasn't Darwin a person? So he existed as a person, right? I guess they meant the question to be about the existence of evolution, either way, the entire argument is hogwash.



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tetris is fun, math isn't

Tetris is fun. Math isn't.
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Wow!
Take a look at the website for the "Antarctica Journal of Mathematics". Reminds me of the websites that flooded the net back in the 90's.


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Yup, those stars are supposed to be flashing!!

Link to journal.
Link to reddit discussion about it.
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And that sure is a long email address!!
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Book math fail

Feb 12, 2010  


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Price semi-fail

Feb 12, 2010  


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I call cheats!

Feb 11, 2010  








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Pricing fail GH

Feb 9, 2010  


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Incorrect! Poor guy lol

Feb 7, 2010  


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Test proof fail

Jan 31, 2010  


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Math Tudoring

Jan 25, 2010  
Thought I'd share an email I just received...

To:
me!!

Subject:
Math Tudoring

Message:
Hi,
 
Could you tell me if you are available for Math 100 tudoring? If available, do you tudor at the university or at student's home?
 
Thanks

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Silly Omegle Chat

Jan 17, 2010  
Omegle is a site where you can chat one-on-one with strangers. The service randomly pairs up users online into one-on-one chat windows, where they can chat anonymously using the handles "You" and "Stranger". Either party can disconnect at any time.

This particular chat is rather amusing:


omegle chat


Just don't check the math ;-)
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The Office - Math Fail

Jan 16, 2010  
One of my favorite parts of the tv show "The Office":

the office math fail


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Answer Fail

Jan 5, 2010  
answer fail

Sorry, that's not correct. Guess next time he/she shouldn't have put a space :D
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Fox news fail (again)

Dec 17, 2009  
Remember this pi chart (from Fox News):

fox news fail

Well, turns out Fox News is at it again:

fox news fail


I'm guessing that people can vote for multiple categories.
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one hour to live

If I had one hour to live, I'd spend it in this class because it feels like an eternity.
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Elephant blocking my test

Dec 15, 2009  
Elephant blocking my test


Nice try student!! But...

elephant correction
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Silly math

Dec 14, 2009  
Two silly clips where the math doesn't add up.

The first one claims 13 x 7 = 28.


funny math

The second one claims 14 x 5 = 25.

funny math


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Math 911

Dec 13, 2009  
math 911


Hahaha, this is pretty cute. This 4 year old boy calls 911 for help with math because earlier his mom told him to get help.

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Pokemath

Dec 11, 2009  
pokemath


Student:
I couldn't figure out this problem, but here is an amateur drawing of a charizard. I hope that helps...

Math Teacher: Blastoise uses water cannon. It's Super Effective! Charizard fainted.

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Math clock

Dec 10, 2009  
math clock

Do the math! I dare you...
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i <3 u

Dec 9, 2009  
i <3 u

Funny chat...
Edit: As pointed out below by mrburkemath (thanks!) this comes from the comic Luke Surl http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/916 (which is released under a share alike license).
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Pinocchio paradox

Dec 9, 2009  
paradox

Hmmm...

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Jesus Venn Diagram

Dec 7, 2009  
Jesus Venn Diagram

Silly Venn diagram >_<
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Silly blackboard picture

Dec 5, 2009  
blackboard


I call fake!! Looks pretty sweet though!
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Math Sign Fail

Dec 4, 2009  
math sign
What does stumulus mean? Anyone? Cricket...

There are:
365.242199 days per year

And multiplied by 2206 years gives:
365.242199 x 2206 = 805 724.291

Multiplied by $1,000,000 gives:
$805, 724, 291, 000.

Well, the guy is right. I'm definitely stumuled.
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math counts


MATHCOUNTS in North Carolina

This presentation will present a status report on MATHCUNTS in North Carloina...
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Are the reals countable?

Nov 29, 2009  
John Gabriel (a non-mathematician) claims in his blog that the real numbers are countable. The author tries to enumerate the real numbers in the interval [0, 1) by writing out all those whose decimal representation has one digit after the dot (0.1, 0.2, ..., 0.9), followed by those with two digits after the dot, then those with three digits, and so on.

He goes on further to say that this establishes a procedure for writing down an ordered sequence of numbers in which every real number of the source interval will appear eventually (although, it should be clear that any number with an infinite decimal representation will never occur in his sequence of numbers).

This argument shows that the subset of real numbers between 0 and 1 that have a finite decimal representation is countable. Although, it fails to work for the interval [0, 1).

It's rather entertaining to watch fellow mathematicians humor him. Either way, things like this happen all the time :-D.


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Penis physics

Nov 6, 2009  
Why is there a penis on your physics hw?



I can't quite read what it says... Penis-TATION? MTATION? Dictation?
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Fox news - pi chart

Nov 5, 2009  


Hmm... something doesn't add up :-]
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Silly prediction quiz

Nov 1, 2009  
Take this silly quiz and we will predict your all time favorite tv show!

First pick a number from 1 to 9.

Multiply by 3.

Add 3.

Multiply by 3 again.

Add the two digits together.

Now you should get a number and find it in the chart below!

1. Smallville
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Supernatural
4. House
5. Gossip Girl
6. Heroes
7. One Tree Hill
8. Prison Break
9. Barney & Friends
10. Family Guy
11. The Office
12. Scrubs
13. Battlestar Galactica
14. CSI
15. NCIS
16. Bones
17. Naruto
18. ER
19. Desperate Housewives
20. Ghost Whisperer
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Funny test answers

Oct 29, 2009  
More funny exam answers...


mmm Sushi!!
 sushi test exam question
This is sooo cute....
bear on test exam roar


This is... weird...

weird picture drawn on test exam


Bonus! I'd say give 'em a mark or two ;-)
no free bonus marks for terrorists on test exam


Yet another student who thinks he's funny quoting the office...

that's what she said detention office


Confusing! For both student and teacher :D
both student and teacher confused exam test
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Silly exam answers

Oct 27, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

This one is silly, gotta love teachers!!
teacher fail at math letter
Hmmm....
police roadblock in the way drawn on test exam


Common mistakes, uncommon picture...
adorable panda drawn on test exam


Rainbows!! and a bunny!
adorable bunny and rainbow drawn on test exam


Funny...
paint my house question on test exam fail
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What is it?
Special Mathlympics is an annual event with the main goal of stimulating interest and igniting passion in mathematics!

Who can participate?
The competition is open to people of all ages who are special (in the sense that they are mathematically challenged).

When/where is it?
On March 14th, 2010, the very first Special Mathlympics will take place in Toronto, Ontario. The Special Mathlympics occur every year! The host city for 2011 will be Paris, France.

Schedule of events:
Day 1: Addition
Day 2: Subtraction
Day 3: Multiplication
Day 4: Puzzles

On day 4, teams will answer tough mathematical puzzles like the famous Moomahata bird problem:

  • Suppose Moomahata has 3 birds and Meemahata has 2 birds. One the birds that Meemahata has is named Moomahata and the other is named Meemahata. The birds that Moomahata have are named: Meemahata, Moomahata, Meomahata. Suppose that Moomahata has $7 per bird and the bird named Moomahata has $2 per Meemahata. If Meemahata has $3 per bird and an additional $1 per Meemahata, then how much money does the bird Meemahata that is owned by Moomahata have?

Register your team TODAY for the chance to win the world title!
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Funny students and tests

Oct 25, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

Nice... and unusual (xkcd reference btw):
 hoverboard velociraptor xkcd test exam reference
Good answer!
probability test exam question fail


Name a pair of vertical angles... indeed...
pair of vertical angles exam test fail


Well... it was a nice try...
virtual real test exam fail


A whale! Hmm... guess we'll accept that...
whale picture drawn on test exam fail


Beer-Lambert Law...
beer lambert law test exam
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More funny exam answers

Oct 22, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

Lions are cute...
student and teacher draw lion on test exam
It's not art class, jeez...
drawing on math test


Ohhh linear algebra and giraffes :D
linear algebra test and giraffe picture


Gotta love batman!!
find the identity of batman by using calculus


Love the story and drawings...
three steps to getting a good mark - step 1 - cheat - step 2 - beg - step 3 - threaten
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Funny Exam Answers

Oct 21, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

The first one is where a student answers "C" for every answer, but it was a true/false test so only answers "A" and "B" applied, LOL... see the remark from the prof below.

test exam fail always pick c
Oh dear...
test exam fail because he slept with his bosses wife


Nice! 100%, gotta love it.

perfect score on test but weird answers


Lovely circus picture!

circus picture drawn on final test exam


Okay, not math related but I love the tv show "The Office"...
thats what she said detention notice
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FailAds

Oct 20, 2009  
FailAds.com is a site that has some funny pictures of advertisements. This particular one is someone looking for a math tudor:

math-tudar-tutor.jpgYou can visit their site for a collection of other epic fail ads, funny pictures of Engrish, pwned, Tshirts, signs, magazine ads, instructions, packaging and lots more.
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Ya so I keep hearing about this balloon boy... although I haven't actually read any news articles on it, so based on headlines I keep seeing this is what I suspect happened:
- Richard Heene makes experimental helium balloon
- Heene & wife freakout since their "son" may be in the basket
- crapload of publicity, balloon comes down, son not in there
- son was actually in the Heene house attic all along
- 4chan delivers pizza to balloon boy
- news now reporting the stunt was a hoax
- charges filed against Heene
So what does this have anything to do with math? Well I came across this post about someone doing the "math behind the balloon boy story". Basically they do some fancy calculations to see if it was ever possible for such a crappy balloon to lift a small boy:

"Was it ever even possible that a 20' x 5' helium balloon could lift the weight of a six-year-old to 8,000 feet MSL? Let's take a look at some numbers. Taking Falcon Heene's father at his reported word, the balloon that news helicopters followed for two hours Thursday (because they thought Falcon was aboard) was 20 feet by five feet. We don't know if that included the compartment at the bottom -- so let's be conservative and assume it did not."


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So over on TechCrunch.com they were being big babies about the cost of the WolframAlpha iphone app. Although the website is free to use, asking Wolfram Alpha how much it costs gives:
 wolfram alpha cost I don't have an iphone, so the cost of the app doesn't matter to me ^_^
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Google suggest fail

Oct 17, 2009  
This is just a small collection of some funny google suggestions.

The first one is "how to make"... ummm...


So I started off looking on tips on "how to find a job" but while typing that I got distracted and ended up surfing a bunch of websites on how to ...



This got me curious as to what would show up with "how do i tell my boy":


and compare it to "how do i tell my girl":


Not very funny... so I decided to get creative and see what people get caught doing...





dad with my gf? that doesn't sound good at all!


guitarist? wait... what?

The following one I've seen somewhere else...


What about chinese people though? Seems like they like to eat things...


Then I got bored of this.... but apparently instead of being bored, i'm actually EXTREMELY terrified of chinese people... probably because they eat babies lol.


Also, my grandma is pregnant... oh dear....


I don't even want to click on the next one (video link??) Oh dear oh dear:


omg i just...


And how does this even happen? my little brother...


"what".... it's a simple word... but gives a strange result:


Also, for some strange reason my son is addicted to ... you'll never guess!!


However, according to google my daughter isn't addicted to anything... that doesn't seem fair!!
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Yo momma so (nerdy ones)

Oct 16, 2009  
Boing Boing had a post titled "The Nerdy Dozens", where on Xeni Jardin's twitter account a bunch of very nerdy "yo momma" jokes appeared. A lot of these were hilarious, so to preserve the ingenuity I collected the most nerdiest ones. Kudos to those who came up with these! Starting with my favorites:

  • Yo mamma so fat, China uses her to block the internet.
  • Yo mama so fat pkzip can't compress her.
  • Yo momma so fat, it takes 5 warlocks to summon her.
  • Yo momma so fat you gotta address her in 128 bit.
  • Yo momma so fat they mapped her for Google street view.
  • Yo momma so old she goes on carbon dates.
  • Yo momma so stupid, she's currently on a quest for the Head of Vecna.
  • Your momma is so mean she stole the walrus' bukkit and ate kitteh's cheezburger.
  • Yo momma so mean she has no standard deviation.
and some more...

  • Yo momma so fat THX can't even surround her.
  • Yo momma so dumb, she went to the dentist and asked for a bluetooth.
  • Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is a gay porn film.
  • Yo momma's so big and ugly she lies dreaming in R'lyeh.
  • Yo momma so fat she doesn't just have a low center of gravity, she has an elliptical orbit.
  • Yo momma so old, she's an arguing point between Creationists and Evolutionists.
  • Yo Momma so fat, even Ralph Lauren's Photoshop team can't help her ass.
  • Yo momma so dense she got her own event horizon.
  • Your momma is so fat NASA shot a rocket into her ass looking for water.
  • Yo momma so weak physicists have unified her with electromagnetism.
  • Yo momma so fat, she took geometry in high school just cause she heard there was gonna be some pi.
  • Yo momma so fat, she bends light.
  • Yo momma so big, Google ran out of pixels tryin to Street View her butt.
  • Yo mama so fat, Stephen Hawking found three extra dimensions in her panties!
  • Yo mama so dumb, she thinks the Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction is what happened right before she had twins.
  • Yo mama so FAT32, NTFS won't even give her permission.
  • Yer momma so dumb the Higgs Boson comes back in time to shut her mouth.
  • Yo mama so dumb, she thinks steampunk is a buffet item.
  • Yo mama so fat that her presence itself distort the space-time tapestry.
  • Yo momma so fat, her Schwarzschild radius is that of the universe.
  • Yo mama so fat, she emits Bekenstein-Hawking radiation (at least until she shrinks and dissipates...)
  • Your mama's so fat, when black holes see her, they shake their heads and travel in the opposite direction.
  • Yo mama so fat her diet is Hawking Radiation.
  • Yo mama so fat she changes the universal constant of gravitation.
  • Yo mamma is so massive she has regular interactions with neutrinos.
  • Yo momma so fat when she sits around the house she sits around all 10*10*16 multiversal instantiations of the house.
  • Yo momma so fat, Han Solo sliced her open with a lasersaber and popped luke inside for warmth.
  • Your momma is so fat NASA shot a rocket into her ass looking for water.
  • Yo momma so fat, she engirdles the world, and has engendered Ragnorök.
  • Yo momma so big and nasty, Al Gore's afraid when she farts it's gonna blow a new hole in the ozone layer.
  • Yo momma so big, the Fail Whale sued her in Internet court for unlawful impersonation.
  • Yo momma so fat, she took geometry in high school just cause she heard there was gonna be some pi.
  • Yo momma so fat she doesn't just have a low center of gravity, she has an elliptical orbit.
  • Yo momma so Pi, she can't be expressed accurately as a fraction.
  • Yo momma's so white she thinks Malcolm X is Malcolm the 10th.
  • Yo momma's so fat her laptop has a grease trap.
  • Your momma's so large, CERN plans to use her to track down the Higgs boson.
  • Yo momma's so big Falcon Heene tried to fly away in her.
  • Yo momma so weak physicists have unified her with electromagnetism.
  • Yo momma so dumb she think encryption is what happens when they bury you.
  • Yo momma's so big and ugly she lies dreaming in R'lyeh.
  • Yo momma so sleazy, even Valleywag won't link to her.
  • Yo momma got such a big head, Ralph Lauren don't even need to photoshop her.
  • Yo momma so old, she's an arguing point between Creationists and Evolutionist.
  • Yo momma so round there's a formula for calculating her volume.
  • Yo momma so oily, America's gonna invade her and set up a pipeline contract with Halliburton.
  • Yo momma so ugly she made tubgirl run screamin and take a bath.
  • Yo momma so dumb she thinks pluto is a planet.
  • Yo momma so dumb, she thinks inbound links means eatin up hotdogs.
  • Yo momma so dumb, she thinks the Singularity is what happens when you get divorced.
  • Yo momma so skanky, not even /b/ would fap to her.
  • Yo mama so big, she needs a multi-petabyte RAID array just to store her fat ass.
  • Yo momma so dumb, she thought Google was her phone number. And you wonder why she don't call.
  • Yo mama so dumb, when you told her your laptop was from Apple, she bit right into it and thought the keys was seeds.
  • Yo momma so stupid, when Google Wave, she waved right back.
  • Yo momma's so fat, when her iPhone beeps for an incoming txt, people think she's a truck backin' up.
  • Yo momma so nasty Keyboard Cat furiously tried to play her off until its paws bled.
  • Your mama's so fat, when black holes see her, they shake their heads and travel in the opposite direction.
  • Yo mama so stupid she waited for the Universal Serial Bus.
  • Your mama is so fat, she expresses her dress size in scientific notation.
  • Your mama is so old, she still has gills in her prom photo.
  • Yo momma so fat, the ratio of her circumference to her diameter is four.
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So today I beat stumbleupon in math!! Check out the proof here:

su.pngMathFail = 1; StumbleUpon = 0.
Me thinks I deserve a medal ^_^
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In this post we learn all about the math behind low riding pants and how cool it really is.

I decided to do a study just to see what the relationship was. I interviewed 13,532 people and showed them each 6 pictures of people wearing low riding pants. I then asked them to select a "COOLNESS FACTOR" for each picture.
The 'coolness factor' works as follows:
0 = super dorky
1 = dorky
2 = average
3 = above average
4 = cool
5 = super cool!

After gathering all of my results and putting it into this complex mathematical program and calculating means and standard deviations and something to do with chi, I found the following results:

pants.jpg
The results were amazing! I conclude that:
  • the higher the pants, the more dorky you are
  • pants at waistline level means the person is average
  • pants that are super low make you super cool
By the way, I paid the test group people in skittles, they really love skittles for some reason. Afterwards, I also decided to show the test group some pictures of myself with no pants on to see if they would rated it super duper cool. This would fit the linear model that you can see in the picture above. However, the reaction was pretty bad and most of them threw skittles at me, thus I don't have any data for those pictures.
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Look around you maths

Oct 8, 2009  
This British comedy show is hilarious. It's called "Look Around You" and the second epsidoe is about "Maths". Check it out on youtube (at least for now):

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Quote from the show (but you really have to watch it to put it in perspective!!):
"Narrator: What's the largest number you can think of ?
Person 1: 100,000
Person 2: 999,000
Person 3: a million!
Narrator: In actual fact it's neither of these. The largest number is about 45 billion, although mathematicians suspect there may be even larger numbers!"
And one of the problems they presented:
"Narrator: Eight ladies go to eight shops at eight o'clock in the morning. Each lady wants to buy eight spiders. For each spider, eight spider shoes must also be bought. But they only have eight pounds between them. With each spider costing eight pence and each spider shoe costing an eighth pence each, will the ladies have enough change for the bus ride home? A journey costing eight pence per stop and made up of eight stops."
Check out the wiki entry for more information.
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This calculator is perfect for all those kindergartners who need to do some math... quoted from the website:

"The TI-10 is perfect for the primary grades. It combines popular features of the TI-15 Explorer™, which makes it a unique tool for grades K-3. The TI-10's comfortable, colorful design helps students find patterns in daily activities and helps educators reinforce math concepts in all elementary subjects."
Please, please, pleaseeee don't let kids that young use calculators!! And if they do, only let them use it to check their answers.

Say you have two kids who have to add up the numbers from 1 to 100. The calculator kid would use his monkey sticks calculator and plug away at it. The non-calculator kid would hopefully come up with a thoughtful solution to the problem (sound familiar?) :D

I guess it doesn't matter since it's computer age now. Lots of grade 9 students can't even properly WRITE their own name! They never ever have to write (and rarely sign forms), and only learned to properly write in grade 3 (the curriculum was set to focus more on teaching kids computers). Oh monkey sticks, what will we do ^_^
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Cat picture

Oct 3, 2009  
This is a cute picture :D

cat meow mu comic picture
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Math fails in history

Oct 3, 2009  
Dick Lipton wrote a great post over at Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP. In his Sept 27th post he talked about surprises in mathematics. In one of his sections he gives three examples of where mathematicians "accepted" a false proof. Sometimes this happens and it might be dozens of years until someone realizes a mistake has been made.

One interesting example of this is the Four Colour Theorem (that's right ya bunch of monkeys, I spelled colour with a U!!!)...
Lipton says...
"The Four-Color Theorem (4CT) dates back to 1852, when it was first proposed as a conjecture. Francis Guthrie was trying to color the map of counties in England and observed that four colors were enough. Consequently, he proposed the 4CT. In 1879, Alfred Kempe provided a "proof" for the 4CT. A year later, Peter Tait proposed another proof for 4CT. Interestingly both proofs stood for 11 years before they were proved wrong. Percy Heawood disproved Kempe's proof in 1890, and Julius Petersen showed that Tait's proof was wrong a year later.

However, Kempe's and Tait's proofs, or attempts at a proof, were not fully futile. For instance, Heawood noticed that Kempe's proof can be adapted into a correct proof of a "Five-Color Theorem". There were several attempts at proving the 4CT before it was eventually proved in 1976. See this article by Robin Thomas for a historical perspective of the problem."
Go check out the rest of his post NOW.
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Hey guys,

Based on my previous post of "How many girls are there for me," I thought it would be interesting to see how many guys there are for me. So hypothetically let's pretend I am gay and a top (if you don't know what that means you should get some more gay friends lol). Just a recap that I found out in the last post that:
11, 414 girls
are suitable matches for me.

Now, some of my stats I used from counting the number of girls for me still hold. The male population on the planet is about:
Male population on earth in 2009:
3,500,000,000
But I am looking for a boy who is in North America. Restricting this number to Canada and the United States gives:
171, 230, 000 boys

He must also be around my age. Say, from 25-29 years old. That leaves:
11, 415, 000 boys

But about half of these boys are already married or in a common-law relationship. Thus, that leaves:
5, 707, 500 boys

And further, about 89% of men are not interested in men (i.e. straight or other). That leaves:
627, 825 boys

Being a mathematician, I want a boy who is smart. But a lot of gay guys are actually smart (unlike the other post which quoted: 85% of girls in North America are complete dumb asses). Only about 50% of gay guys are complete dumbasses, thus that leaves:
313, 912 boys

But I don't want no ugly man! Thank god that a lot of gay guys take care of their appearance and work out at the gym. About 40% of gay guys don't, so that leaves:
188, 347 boys

But the boy must also like me. To see what kind of statistic is reasonable, I went to the local gay bar and chatted with 10 boys. Then at the end I asked them if they liked me based on my appearance and our conversation. An outstanding 7 boys said yes and wanted to go back to my place. But upon further asking, 5 of them didn't want an actual relationship with me. So, only about 20% of the boys actually like me and would date me. That leaves:
37, 669 boys

Finally, as I said at the top, hypothetically speaking I would be a "top" gay. So, assuming that 50% are also tops, that would leave me with:
18, 834 boys

Holy cow!! WTF!? So only 11, 414 girls would make a perfect match with me, but if I were gay, an outstanding 18, 834 boys would make a perfect match with me! Damn, I better reconsider my options LOL.
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Hey guys,

I don't have a girlfriend but I don't think there is anything wrong with me, hahaha... but being the mathematician that I am, let's look to see how many girls exactly would be a match for me :D

I went onto Wolfram|Alpha and looked up the female population on the planet and got:
Female population on earth in 2009:
3,326,000,000


But I am looking for a girl who is in North America. Restricting this number to Canada and the United States gives:
171, 230, 000 girls
BUT she must also be around my age and preferably younger (or at most 1 year older). Say, from 25-29 years old. That leaves:
11, 415, 000 girls

But about half of these girls are already married or in a common-law relationship. Thus, that leaves:
5, 707, 500 girls

And further, about 11% of women are not interested in men (i.e. lesbian or other). That leaves:
5, 079, 675 girls

Being a mathematician, I want a girl who is smart. About 85% of the girls in North America are complete dumb asses, hence the number of girls left is:
761, 951 girls

But I don't want no ugly kids, and given my appearance, the girl better be pretty! Only about 15% of the girls fall in this category, thus we get:
114, 292 girls

But the girl must also like me. To see what kind of statistic is reasonable, I went to the local bar and chatted with 10 girls. Then at the end I asked them if they liked me based on my appearance and our conversation. Only 1 girl said yes, the other 9 said no (unfortunately the 1 girl who said yes went home with my friend :-S). Thus, only 10% of the girls will like me. That leaves:
11, 429 girls

Further, I have two sisters and a few other relatives who would fall into the above categories, and who I prefer not to marry. So taking away these 10-15 people gives:
11, 414 girls

WOW! So in this world there is 11,414 girls that would like me and would marry me. That's actually a lot (in my mind). Now if only there is a way to meet them, hmmm.

I thought it would also be very interesting to see how many GUYS there are for me and compare... you can read that calculation at my next entry:
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All winners who are in Canada have to answer math problems before getting any prize. Things like...
90 x 2, then divide by six, then x 12

This question was for claiming an Xbox 360 in a contest, so the answer of course is 360!

But WHY?? Americans don't have to do it, a monkey on a stick can win prize in the U.S and not even know how to do 1+2. But in Canada, to even win the McDonald's hockey trading cards you need to do these silly computations.
This is actually a loop-hole in Canadian law. Basically, Canada has anti-gambling laws that make it illegal to sell chances to win a prize, so there has to be at least some level of skill involved. In the past, the "skill" challenges involved things like:
  • Count the number of jelly beans in a jar
  • Calculate the time it takes for a barrel to float down a river
However, things like:
  • Shoot a turkey at 50 yard range
  • Quickly peel a potato
were TOO easy and Canadian courts have said these last two just don't make the cut. LOL shoot a turkey, whoever thought up that is silly, that sounds more like an American test.

In 1984 is when something big happened. A court case said that a four-part mathematical question counts as a "test of skill". Something like:
228 x 21, then add 10824, then divide by 12, then subtract 1121.
Due to this court case, almost all product promotion sweepstakes started using the four-part math problem to test skill and get around the nasty Canadian laws.

However, in the last 20 years, the four-part math problem has turned into monkey sticks... some have simplified it so much that the division they require is by 1. And forget about using 3 digit numbers, 2 digits is good enough. And four-part problem? BAH i say! BAH! Three-parts should be enough, right? So now you see things like:
2 x 2, then add 10, then divide by 1.
But is the Canadian government going to crack down on companies posing super easy skill-testing questions? Probably not...
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Girls are dumb at math

Sep 26, 2009  
Oh jeez, with a title like that I'm sure to get my ass kicked :-\

"In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who were told there is a genetic difference in math ability.

And women who heard there were differences caused by environment -- such as math teachers giving more attention to boys -- outperformed those who were simply reminded they were females.

The women who did better in the tests got nearly twice as many right answers as those in the other groups, explained Steven J. Heine, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver."
The math study was done a couple years ago from 2003-2006. Heine and Dar-Nimrod wanted to see how people are affected by stereotypes about themselves. They took 220 women and divided them into 4 groups and gave them math and reading tests. The results were published in the journal Science.

The way they did the experiment was to give the women a math test, then have them read an essay, then give them another math test. In two groups the women averaged between five and 10 correct answers out of 25 math questions. In the other two they averaged between 15 and 20 correct.

The women in the lower socring groups read essays about the 'genetic difference between men and women in math ability' or read an essay about the 'images of women in art' (which reminds them they are female but didn't discuss math). These two groups had a decreased performance between the two math tests. Thus... reminding people of the stereotype affects them.
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This guy named Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- like really, really, really, really unhappy :-|

Anyways, in August he decided to sue the largest U.S. bank and its board... demanding that
"1,784 billion, trillion dollars"
be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000. 
According to the news story:
"He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a 'Spanish womn,'" the judge wrote. "He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."

Chin has experience with big numbers. He's the judge who sentenced Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison sentence for what the government called a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Yet the money Chiscolm wants could dwarf all the bank's other problems. It's larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm's request is equivalent 1 followed by 22 digits. The sum also dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank."

The Judge gave Chiscolm until October 23 to explain the basis for his claims, or else his complaint will be dismissed.

Just how many zeros is 1,784 billion trillion? Convention is that it's 21 zeros:
1 784 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
WOW! Just.... wow!
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negative-gold.jpgThere is a flaw in World of Warcrafts statistics for "Total gold acquired". A couple years ago, players discovered that the most a character can hold is 2^31 (or 2147483648) copper pieces of currency. This is what is known as the "gold cap" in World of Warcraft. A single character cannot hold more gold than this in his backpack, otherwise an error is reported.
Unfortunately, the statistics Blizzard keeps works differently. If you were to acquire more than 2^31 copper pieces, it basically goes into the negatives. That is, it will go as:
..., 2147483646, 2147483647, 2147483648, -2147483648, -2147483647, ....
and back to 0.

I tried this and managed to get into the negatives, and eventually get it back to 0... and then up to 2147483648 again lol. I wonder if blizzard has a counter to see how many times you went into the negatives and got back up to 0.
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Patricia Heaton (from the tv show "Everybody Loves Raymond"), has a hard time on one incredibly easy question for $50,000 for charity on the Millionaire 10th Anniversary Celebration. The question is:

If a euro is worth $1.50, five euros is worth what?
a) thirty quarters
b) fifty dimes
c) seventy nickels
d) ninety pennies

After five minutes of struggling, she FINALLY managed to get it right.

millionaire.jpgYou can find the video on youtube with a simple search of her name.
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Facebook sucks at math

Sep 3, 2009  
I was goofing off on Facebook when I decided to look into it's advertising system. I got to a page that asked for a bunch of information. I decided to target people with the following particulars:
  • 18+ years old
  • College Grad
  • Majored in Mathematics (of course :D)
It also asked for countries to target. I put in Canada and the United States and at the bottom of the screen it said:
164,400 people
  • who live in one of the countries: Canada or United States
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Then I decided I would add China to the list of countries. The reason for this is because I wanted to target MORE people!! But as soon as I added China, the bottom of the screen said:

161,260 people
  • who live in one of the countries: Canada, United States or China
facebook-fail-2.pngBy adding China, the number of people went down! Epic FAIL on Facebook's behalf!
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What is 1 + 1?

Sep 1, 2009  
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Expand: (a+b)^n
expand (a+b)^n


Hmm...
messy math



Study = Fail!
study equals fail



Sex = Fun.
sex is fun math



Computing Limits:
limit fail
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There is a "sex math" trick that floated around the internet back in the day... it can be found at these places:

http://www.allfunnypictures.com/pages/sexmath.html
http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2008/11/amazing-sex-mathematics.html
http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/sex_mathematics.htm

The only problem is this trick ONLY works if the year is 2003. Basically, the trick goes like this:

First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have sex .........
(try for more than once but less than 10)

Multiply this number by 2 (Just to be bold)

Add 5. (for Friday Night)

Multiply it by 50 (being a bit stupid)

I'll wait while you get the calculator................

If you have already had your birthday this year add 1753....

If you haven't, add 1752 ..........

Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
(if you remember)

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have sex each week).

The next two numbers are your age.

IMPRESSIVE ISN'T IT?

But this sex math trick is a complete FAIL, hardly impressive I would say. You pick a single digit number x.
2x
2x+5
100x+250
100x+2003 (or + 2002)
100x+2003 (or + 2002) - your birth year.

It's clear where the error is. If you do 2003 (or 2002 if you already had your birthday) and subtract your birth year then you would get your age in 2003. Thus, every year, the "add 1753" step needs to change to adjust for which year it is. Obviously if you keep it at 1753 then the trick won't work in future years (like 2009).
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Silly Math Fail Pics

Aug 26, 2009  
Mental attractiveness vs physical attractiveness
Mental attractiveness vs physical attractiveness


Learn to draw a camel by beginning with a triangle
Learn to draw a camel by beginning with a triangle



Counting Fail - Five bananas... err...
Counting fail



All double priced items half off...
All double priced items half off



3 out of 2 people have trouble with fractions...
3 out of 2 people have trouble with fractions



Math Test Fail
Math Test Fail



Look at the speedometer... Math Test Fail
Look at the speedometer Math Test Fail



Math Test Fail - Complimentary Angles
Math Test Fail - Complimentary Angles



Pac-Man Fail
Pac-Man Fail



Ninja Turtle Math Test Fail
Ninja Turtle Math Test Fail



Weather on Tuesday Fail
Weather on Tuesday Fail
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Dual Burner Gas Grill Pricing Fail
dual burner gas grill pricing fail


Wildwood Pops Pricing Fail
wild woodpops pricing fail



Save one cent pricing fail
Save one cent pricing fail



Buy 3 for the price of 3 pricing fail
Buy 3 for the price of 3 pricing fail



New lower price fail
New lower price fail



Save negative money pricing fail
Save negative money pricing fail
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$6.66 Be like jesus pricing fail
666 Be like jesus pricing fail


Buy 0 for $1.49 pricing fail
Buy 0 for 149 pricing fail



Buy 8 cans for even more than two 4 can boxes pricing fail
Buy 8 cans for even more than two 4 can boxes pricing fail



Save negative money pricing fail
Save negative money pricing fail



Was $1.50... new price $1.50 pricing fail
Was 150 new price 150 pricing fail



Was $79.99... new price $79.99 pricing fail
Was 7999 new price 7999 pricing fail
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Silly savings on ice cream fail
Silly savings on ice cream fail


Shaving cream pricing fail
Shaving cream pricing fail



Deodorant pricing fail
Deodorant pricing fail



Automatic price reduction save 1 cent fail
Automatic price reduction save 1 cent fail



Save $1.00 compared to stadium price fail
Save 1 dollar compared to stadium price fail



Was 2.49, now only 2.49 pricing fail
Was 249 now only 249 pricing fail
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Explain the shape of the graph.
explain the shape of the graph fail
Its curvy, with a higher bit at the end and a rather aesthetically pleasing slope downwards towards a pretty fast strait bit. The actual graph itself consists of 2 strait lines meeting at the lower left hand corner of the graph and moving away at a 90 degree angle. Each line has an arrow head on the end.


Proof that Girls are evil:
proof that girls are evil



There is an elephant in the way:
there is an elephant in the way math test fail



Use an example to show that Tracey is wrong.
example of math test fail



Find x:
find x math test fail
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Calculator Fail

Aug 10, 2009  
calculator

I'm always eager about finding math mistakes in the news. The Herald reported that a Traffic Warden was incorrectly ticketing cars in a parking lot because of how he was using his calculator. He failed to realize that calculators work in decimals rather than minutes and hours. One car owner saw this and tried to explain the error but the Traffic Warden was convinced his calculator method was correct and continued to ticket cars. Eventually, after an appeal the incorrect tickets were repealed and a letter of apology was sent.
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Taking a look at the table in wikipedia the life expectancy for Canada is indeed a bit higher than that of the USA. Peter Gillies asked this question and Bill O'Reilly answers it perfectly:
"Well, that's to be expected, Peter, because we have ten times as many people as you do. That translates to ten times as many accidents, crimes, down the line..."

Video:
Bill OReilly stupid answer

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Funny Math Fail Pics

Jul 30, 2009  
100% Discount Store
discount store sign fail



25 years of partners in education

25 years of partners in education



Verizon Communications - What now, bitches?
cheque to verizon communications silly math



This restroom is closed from...

the restroom is closed from sign fail
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