OpenPKG Advent Calendar 2006

Breaking-Up Joke
Mathematics For Hackers

So far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

— Albert Einstein

Proposition 1: The limit as n goes to infinity of sin(x)/n is 6.
Proof: cancel the n in the numerator and denominator.

            sin(x)
       lim  ______ = 6
      n->oo   n

Proposition 2: The limit as w goes to infinity of 3 is 8.
Proof: finally stop thinking in strict mathematics and start recognizing ASCII art ;-)

       lim  3  =  8
      w->oo

Q.E.D.
(quod erat demonstrandum)

Q.E.D.
(quot esset dubitandum)