Archive for June 2008
Jokes
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 30, 2008
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Found these while stumblingupon again……Maybe chaat for some….;)
Q: What does the Little Mermaid wear to math class?
A: An algebra.
Q: What is the shape of a dead parrot?
A: A polygon.
Q: Why did the mathematician-dentist name is son Pi?
A: Because everyone knows pi is transcendental.
Q: What’s the difference between a PhD in Mathematics and a large pizza.
A: [...]
Check this out
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 28, 2008
The Evolution of a Programmer
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 28, 2008
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Read this on: Ariel.com.
High School/Jr.High
10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD”
20 END
First year in College
program Hello(input, output)
begin
writeln(‘Hello World’)
end.
Senior year in College
(defun hello
(print
(cons ‘Hello (list ‘World))))
New professional
[...]
OS bloopers
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 28, 2008
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Tech Support: “May I ask what operating system you are running today?”
Customer: “A computer.
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Friend: “I heard about this thing called ‘Linux’.”
Me: “Oh, I use Linux.”
Friend: “What is it?”
Me: “An operating system.”
Friend: “Like Firefox?”
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Overheard in a software shop:
Woman #1: “What this Linux thing?”
Woman #2: “It’s a program that if you have it on your computer, you [...]
Beauty of Numbers
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 28, 2008
I was stumblingupon sites when i came across something really beautiful . Maybe all of u must be aware of it anyways take a look.
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 [...]
Screenlets
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 22, 2008
Screenlets are screen applets.They look good and provide great functionality.They are small owner drawn applications written in Python.They are a really good alternative to gDesklets too.
Heres how you go about installing them:
For Fedora:
You need gnome-keyring and python devel packages installed. Also you need the rsvg libraries.
Switch to the super user in the terminal.Then
yum install python-devel [...]
21
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 18, 2008
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Hello everybody…..I just finished writing the code for my project and hence have time (??) to write this post.Anyways,yesterday I watched ‘21′ with my dad at ESquare(a multiplex near my house).
The aspect of the movie that probably attracted me was MIT.I assumed that the story would be of J.P.Massar who headed the MIT Blackjack team [...]
Breaking spaghetti in two pieces.
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 13, 2008
Try this out.Take uncooked spaghetti and bend it until it cracks.How many pieces do you expect? 2. Richard Feynman showed by breaking a lot pasta that uncooked spaghetti will rarely break into two pieces.It can break into three , seven or ten pieces.
French physicists Dr Basile Audoly and Dr Sébastien Neukirch say the answer is [...]
Technological advances
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 8, 2008
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Got this from Baus blog.Really interesting……..
Louis Posa
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 5, 2008
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This is from a book Mathematical Gems – Ross Honsberger .Its a very famous story of the child prodigy Louis Posa.He was born sometime in the 1940’s and very young attracted the attention of the eminent Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos.
This is the story of Louis Posa as told by Paul Erdos:
” I will talk about [...]
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