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rcfox
on Nov 7, 2010
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Ask HN: Any good math jokes?
Q: What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?
A: You can't cross a vector with a scalar!
shadowpwner
on Nov 7, 2010
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I'm sorry, how is a mosquito a vector?
jsundram
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mosquitos are vectors for disease (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(biology)
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mikegreenberg
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A better version I heard changed 'mosquito' to 'mountain goat'. Since both characters are from the same domain, people start thinking about (more) reasonable solutions and get blindsided harder by the math reference!
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A: You can't cross a vector with a scalar!