The New Joke Thread

[StuM]

Is a mountain climber a scalar or a scaler?

[Adelie]

Originally Posted by StuM

Yep! But we also enjoy esoteric discussions that occasionally drift for a while from the main thread purpose. That's the nature of threads. You see it here frequently

And I see that everyone is missing my ironic meta-joke of me being pedantic about ya’ll being pedantic.

[Pelagic]

Here you are
https://upjoke.com/cosine-jokes
Now you guys get a room, preferably near a brothel where you can apply those tangents to some irregular curves

[socaldmax]

[sailorphil9]

Originally Posted by StuM

That was what was behind my original question, One can only assume that GI Low meant it was not a tangent when he said "I will not correct an inaccurate maths joke"



As far as I can tell, given the size of the original image, it is a tangent.

Sorry, I just don't understand what low glycaemic index has to do with the off topic discussion about tangents

[sailorphil9]

Originally Posted by StuM

Is a mountain climber a scalar or a scaler?

If he's in the high cloud-clear mountains then he could become a tan gent.

[Eigenvector]

Originally Posted by StuM

Is a mountain climber a scalar or a scaler?

It depends upon whether he’s lost his direction

[Eigenvector]

Originally Posted by StuM

Is a mountain climber a scalar or a scaler?

Neither. He’s stuck pondering the fact that his rope makes a perfect tangent line across the perfectly spherical bolder above him.

Bonus Question: What is the force imparted on the bolder by the tangent rope?

[BBViper]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

Will this now become part of high school online sex education?

https://youtu.be/7ijXYCDtNHc

Actually it most likely will and is very relevant to todays liberal thinking due to 'Mrs Penis with boobs' showing up at minute 1:13! A trans-gendered, non-binary penis !?!?!

[GILow]

Originally Posted by StuM

So what's the inaccuracy?

It’s so trivially semantic that I’m almost afraid to explain it after all that drama. It stems from the strict linguistic use of the expression “tan line”, which, I would argue, is the line produced by a tan function, whereas what was drawn was a tangent.

Like I said, trivial semantics. I didn’t think I’d start the total geek-storm that followed.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by StuM

Is a mountain climber a scalar or a scaler?

At a point in time they could be both.

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by Adelie

This is The Joke Thread and you five have managed to go 14 posts having a discussion/argument about the mathematics in one joke. You are all humor impaired aren't you?

Actually - I thought it was because they got off on a tangent

[CatNewBee]

tan stand usually for the tangens function, a trigonometric function tan(x) =sin(x) / cos(x), but it is not funny.

I am impressed of all the people here actually knowing math and feeling upset enough to discuss it on a sailing jokes forum. A lot of MENSA people around... [emoji12]

[Eigenvector]

A famous MENSA member............

[Singularity]

Originally Posted by GILow

...the expression “tan line”, which, I would argue, is the line produced by a tan function, whereas what was drawn was a tangent.

So can two tan lines about the same complex curve ever be horizontal?