Random Picture Post

[bldavis]

this is why i have dogs....
the worse they can do is crawl under my desk and lay on my feet

[Lightbeard]

Cats are dicks

[Klaudandus]

Cats are dicks

My current cat is, but I still love the goofball.

[Sagara]

The older one is much quieter than the youngest. Which leads to:

Go, Rudolph!

[Klaudandus]

[Klaudandus]

[Zobel]

[Klaudandus]

close enough =P

[Passionario]

[Klaudandus]

[theckhd]

I am sorely tempted to use that during one of my lectures this semester. Except that the chapter is specifically on infinite series... maybe I can use it to introduce the meaning of capital Sigma.

[Nooska]

Can someone translate the picture?

[Fivelives]

The brain is greater than the inverse of the sum of bears. I think.

[Zobel]

Can someone translate the picture?

"Smarter than the average bear".

[Nooska]

Okay, a little less translated, ie, what does the n over sigma over n=1 mean?

[Klaudandus]

Can someone translate the picture?

"Smarter than the average bear".

I think he means in math terms, not the layman terms

[Fivelives]

Capital sigma is just a fancy way of writing down "add these numbers together".

[Klaudandus]

something about the summation of bears up to any given natural number?

[KysenMurrin]

It's the sum of all bears in a set (bears 1 to n in a set of n bears) divided by the number of bears (n), I think. Hence average bear. But I'm not great at this stuff.

[Arnock]

The sum of n bears divided by n.

[Klaudandus]

yeah, i was missing the divided part... =P

[Arnock]

yeah, i was missing the divided part... =P

(1/n)*bears is the same as writing bears/n

[Heil]

Because I sure as hell hope so!

[Aubade]

[bldavis]

which is why i hate online programs for anything beyond basic algebra