Math Puns 4 Nerds

[bec_87rb]

Nerd joke someone told me in the comments of the Vlogbrother's -

Q: What do you get if you cross a mosquito and a mountain climber?
A: You can’t cross a vector with a scalar.

I paused, then I lol'ed a little. There, I did it again, typing this.

Comments

[chhinnamasta]

Yeah, that's a good one. Heard it before, though.

[chhinnamasta]

Actually, I believe the same guy who told me that joke, also filled me in that the companion to the popular Erdős quote, "a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems," is "a computer scientist is a device for turning coffee into urine" *snort*

If I'd heard it before, I had forgot it

[bec_87rb]

Urine, you say. The guy was a mathematician, I'm guessing? I enjoyed the mosquito joke because I told my old "what do you get when you cross an elephant with a grape" joke, and the person took the time to tell me they had heard that one, but it went thusly.

The guy was a mathematician, I'm guessing?

[chhinnamasta]

An MIT-educated mathematician with a small Erdős number, yeah.