30 June 2014

Mathmatical play on words

Here's an excellent play on words for anyone interested in mathematics and English word play, provided they don't take exception to the innuendo.


I don't know where this was first posted, but I saw it here on the amazingly successful and thoroughly engaging science site called IFLS. Like I said, it's successful and engaging despite the freaking name.

For the benefit of the indexing engines and web crawlers, the picture reads:
Holy shift! Look at the asymptote on that mother function.

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