At the risk of sounding like a geek, i will post this math joke..
There were two calculus professors who were patients in a psychiatry ward. One thought he was the integrating function, while the other thought he was the derivative function.
The two of them used to go around and threaten the other patients and scare them out of their wits: “I will integrate you!” and “I will derive you..”
But there was one guy there that neither of them could intimidate… He thought he was e^x
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*Originally posted by Phoenix: *
At the risk of sounding like a geek, i will post this math joke..
There were two calculus professors who were patients in a psychiatry ward. One thought he was the integrating function, while the other thought he was the derivative function.
The two of them used to go around and threaten the other patients and scare them out of their wits: "I will integrate you!" and "I will derive you.."
But there was one guy there that neither of them could intimidate... He thought he was e^x :p
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Ok on behalf of the less abled mathematicians among us I'll couragously volunteer that someone please explain the joke.
e^x is that e to the power of x...if so why can't it be differentiated? don't get it
e^x is the only function whose derivative and integral is the same, original function e^x.
So that’s why when the professors threatened him, “i’ll derive you” or “i’ll integrate you”, the guy who thought he was e^x couldn’t care less, because no matter what they did to him, he’d still be the same function!