Iirc (could be wrong, too lazy to check as usual) the person who cheated was executed after Archimedes demonstrated it was not all gold?What really happened
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That is what Archimedes wants you to think. Here it is demonstrated that it is Archimedes who had a crown made of mostly silver, and exchanged it for the gold one in the bucket of water. The perfect heist, leaving not only the mark believing you are the savour of the day but the whole of history.
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The following is more of a merely bad joke, but has calculus so probably fits here 
If we assume that Trump is a derivative of Musk, then Biden is the antiderivative of Musk, and with Musk clearly being a linear function with huge slope (his ego) => Biden = half of a very large number times X^2.
Which makes sense, since Biden is in many ways a parable.
Maybe we need a lame^science jokes thread.
If we assume that Trump is a derivative of Musk, then Biden is the antiderivative of Musk, and with Musk clearly being a linear function with huge slope (his ego) => Biden = half of a very large number times X^2.
Which makes sense, since Biden is in many ways a parable.
Maybe we need a lame^science jokes thread.
Uncle Sparky
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It would have been posted in one or more of these threads. It's mostly a lame joke, but also integral-based, so...:
Because when integrating you have to include a constant (C) that would have been lost (if there) in the derivative. Sucks :/
You can find more such in this wiki page (along with an explanation of this joke, as a wordplay on 1/x having an integral of log base e x +C; tbf it's not so much meant as a joke, as a type of mnemonic, for C is often forgotten)
Because when integrating you have to include a constant (C) that would have been lost (if there) in the derivative. Sucks :/
You can find more such in this wiki page (along with an explanation of this joke, as a wordplay on 1/x having an integral of log base e x +C; tbf it's not so much meant as a joke, as a type of mnemonic, for C is often forgotten)
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Phil Plait once pointed out that you can calculate the total angular area of the sky this way. If the sky is a sphere with radius 57.3 degrees, then its area is 4*pi*r^2=41,253 square degrees. This makes dimensional analysts SO mad, but you can't argue with results.
Uncle Sparky
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What is a radioactive monster's favourite meal?
Fission chips.
Fission chips.
Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope
E. Petroff et al.
‘Perytons’ are millisecond-duration transients of terrestrial origin, whose frequency-swept emission mimics the dispersion of an astrophysical pulse that has propagated through tenuous cold plasma. In fact, their similarity to FRB 010724 had previously cast a shadow over the interpretation of ‘fast radio bursts’ (FRBs), which otherwise appear to be of extragalactic origin. Until now, the physical origin of the dispersion-mimicking perytons had remained a mystery. We have identified strong out-of-band emission at 2.3–2.5 GHz associated with several peryton events. Subsequent tests revealed that a peryton can be generated at 1.4 GHz when a microwave oven door is opened prematurely and the telescope is at an appropriate relative angle. Radio emission escaping from microwave ovens during the magnetron shut-down phase neatly explains all of the observed properties of the peryton signals. Now that the peryton source has been identified, we furthermore demonstrate that the microwave ovens on site could not have caused FRB 010724. This and other distinct observational differences show that FRBs are excellent candidates for genuine extragalactic transients.
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