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Physfitfreak crossposted to comp.os.linux.advocacy and sci.physics without Followup-To:

On 1/4/26 5:31 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:20:03 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

2)

_ 2 _
ro#ro#3 ria cos(t) - ro#ro#3
roCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroCroC
rAc3rAR
rALroCrAf
rAY2rAa
rAc 2 rAR
rAY3 ria cos(t) + 1rAa

For some reason, #2 did not print properly. The numerator should
be:

sqrt(3) * cos(t)^2 - sqrt(3)

On my screen it is properly printed.

To me the term looks like

[reU(3) cos(t)^2 - reU(3)]/[3 cos^(t)^2 + 1]^(3/2),

but only if I use DejaVu Sans Mono 13pt (not, for example, with Consolas
12pt, another monospace font).

So this is more evidence that it is not a good idea (that should even
convince the staunchest supporter) to *draw* equations (using Unicode) in Usenet. [As you can see, I can find nothing wrong with *writing* Unicode characters when using ASCII would be clumsy instead.]

F'up2 sci.math
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On 12/24/25 7:30 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

Any math heads out there?

This one befits a math head better:

An Iranian Ayatollah invites a penniless Iranian scientist to give him a visit. When the scientist visits him, he goes like:

Ayatollah: We gave this question to every engineer we could and none of
them could answer it. Fat, thin, short, tall, rich, or super rich,
didn't matter. None of those donkeys could answer it. Then someone said
why not asking a scientist, so now you're here.

Scientist: What is the question?

Ayatollah: I have gathered fund to distribute a large number of spies throughout occupied Palestine (Israel.) All of them are non-Iranian, and
have different ethnicity. We have divided up the entire land into as
many zones as we plan to assign spies to. The spies will only contact
each other if they're stationed in neighboring zones. But we do not want
any spy have a neighboring spy of the same ethnicity.

Scientist: !.. Why not?

Ayatollah: Because if of the same ethnicity, their stupid wives will be talking each other's brains on the phone all day and Mossad can easily
get suspicious of the two households.

Scientist: Oh!..

Ayatollah: So here's the problem we have. We prefer to use as few
different ethnicity among the spies as possible. So what is the minimum
number of different ethnicity we can limit our process to, to distribute
them in a way to prevent any neighboring spies of same ethnicity?

And he continues:

Ayatollah: So are we done here?

Scientist: Of course not. What's in it for me? I'm not one of your 5
million Basij slave to do it free for you.

Ayatollah: Hmm.. how about ... much in advance and another ... much
after you come up with the answer?

The scientist takes out his smartphone and uses the astronomical number
to convert the amount into U.S. dollar, and then:

Scientist: Holy fucking shit.. I'm in it!

So he gets the first payment and goes home, works on the problem for a
day, and goes back and gives the answer to the Ayatollah and gets the
final payment.

What was his answer?




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Four, of course.
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On 1/6/26 10:16 PM, John Hasler wrote:

Four, of course.

:-)



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