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Why do maths geeks always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?
Because Oct 31 is Dec 25.
(Please tell me I’m not the only one that actually gets that joke. Thanks b3ta for it.)
December 14, 2004
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Okay, I offically unresign from the math geek club. Please tell me what I am missing from this?
I won’t give this away entirely, but think base 8 (Oct) versus base 10 (Dec) number systems.
yep, sorry, dont get it.
I got it. Took me a couple of seconds – I had to reach into the wayback brain cells – but I snickered.
geek
You might as well have given it away with that comment, Jake! I’ll just have to gloat to myself, like MojoMark. Pretty nifty “joke”.
……nope, dont get it
sadly, they first thing i thought was, “why didn’t i think of that?”
Sadly, J.J., as you can see, there are still people that don’t get it. It’s really not all that funny, so don’t worry if you’re not getting it.
What? I thought it is great! What amazes me is the incredible coincidence of the two dates and their mathematical significance! I wonder what numerologists think of this?
Along the same lines, in 2002 the Ides of October (Oct 15) was especially unlucky because it was also Friday, Dec 13.
“Base 8 is just like base 10, really — if you’re missing two fingers.” — Tom Lehrer
yes u are the only one that gets it
I always heard this in reverse (as a Halloween joke) and it simply never occurred to me that it worked both ways 🙂
I don’t get it!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Awesome joke !! laughed over it for minutes
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Okay, I offically unresign from the math geek club. Please tell me what I am missing from this?
I won’t give this away entirely, but think base 8 (Oct) versus base 10 (Dec) number systems.
yep, sorry, dont get it.
I got it. Took me a couple of seconds – I had to reach into the wayback brain cells – but I snickered.
geek
You might as well have given it away with that comment, Jake! I’ll just have to gloat to myself, like MojoMark. Pretty nifty “joke”.
……nope, dont get it
sadly, they first thing i thought was, “why didn’t i think of that?”
Sadly, J.J., as you can see, there are still people that don’t get it. It’s really not all that funny, so don’t worry if you’re not getting it.
What? I thought it is great! What amazes me is the incredible coincidence of the two dates and their mathematical significance!
I wonder what numerologists think of this?
Along the same lines, in 2002 the Ides of October (Oct 15) was especially unlucky because it was also Friday, Dec 13.
“Base 8 is just like base 10, really — if you’re missing two fingers.” — Tom Lehrer
yes u are the only one that gets it
I always heard this in reverse (as a Halloween joke) and it simply never occurred to me that it worked both ways 🙂
I don’t get it!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Awesome joke !! laughed over it for minutes