Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Too Funny

Iowahawk has some really nice math humor today:
PALO ALTO, CA - An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value "by a totally mindblowning [censored]load." Project director Yujin Xiao of Stanford University said the theoretical number, dubbed a "stimulus," could lead to breakthroughs in fields as diverse as astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and Chicago asphalt contracting.

"Unlike previous large numbers like the Googleplex or the Bazillionty, the Stimulus has no static numerical definition," said Xiao. "It keeps growing and growing, compounding factorially, eating up all zeros in its path. It moves freely across Cartesian dimensions and has the power to make any other number irrational."
Read the whole thing, it's freakin' hilarious! And don't forget to go all the way to the end, where "According to the exit polls, President Obama carried the Imaginary vote 346% to √-12%."