Re: OT: Late one night ...
- From: Eric Vey <junker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:58:16 -0500
"Late one night an engineer was working, trying to figure" out
why, around here, licensed practical nurses make more than engineers, never mind the registered ones.
Michael Press wrote:
Late one night an engineer was working, trying to figure.
how to get out of the hole that was collapsing around
him, drinking coffee out of a stryrofoam cup. He asked
himself how much coffe was in the cup when the cup was
tilted so that the coffee level was at the lip of the cup
and only just covered the bottom of the cup. By the time
he finished the coffe he knew that that fraction of coffee
to cup volume is
x^3 * (1 + x + x^2)
-------------------------
(1 + x) * (1 + x^2 + x^4)
where r is the radius of the bottom, R is the radius of
the top, and x = sqrt{r/R}. Then he crushed the cup into
a bubble gum size wad and flung it across the room where it struck a waste basket with a satisfying thunk.
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