Some very bad math for the holiday season... : The World's Fair

ScienceBlogs Book Club: Inside the Outbreaks

Search

Profile

- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher. Follow Dave on twitter @dnghub.

- Vince LiCata is a faculty member in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Louisiana State University (LSU). His laboratory studies protein-ligand interactions, protein folding, and biothermodynamics. He also writes plays that have been produced in a number of different US cities, and, oddly enough, in Thailand.

- Benjamin Cohen was a co-founder and is now Blogger Laureate at The World's Fair. He teaches at the University of Virginia and is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). Now you can find him at brcohen.net.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

And so forth...

- Subscribe to the World's Fair
- Send me emails!

Cannonball Series

Author-Blogger Series

STUDENTS ROCK!

"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt

Puzzle Fantastica 1 | 2 | 3

Batman as scientist

SCIENCE SHOWDOWN!

Science songs 1 | 2

Links

Into science and badges? Then check out the Science Scouts. Go ahead - join the facebook group, or follow the twitter feed.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

(Banner image by Tsethe)

View blog authority

Some very bad math for the holiday season...

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Posted on: December 18, 2009 11:39 AM, by David Ng

With respect to this and much apologies to all the "shoulders of giants."

Whereby:

(1) mystery tweet = M²c²(A/π)(mx+b)-XF(q/t)

And given that:

(1.a) A = πR² (area of a circle)
(1.b) y = mx+b (linear equation)
(1.c) F=MA (from Newton's laws of motion)
(1.d) S=q/t (classical Entropy definition)

Then:

(2) mystery tweet = M²c²R²y-XMAS

And given that:

(2.a) E = Mc² (Einstein's equivalence of mass and energy equations)

Therefore:

(3) mystery tweet = MER²y-XMAS

(4) mystery tweet = MERRy-XMAS

That's probably it from me until the new year. Have a happy and restful holidays!