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Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
Miami Herald ^

Posted on 02/23/2018 10:17:35 AM PST by TigerClaws

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To: Ken H

No. 1x1 = 1 and 0x0 = 0. Square-root does not work BELOW 0.


21 posted on 02/23/2018 10:27:54 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: rjsimmon

Good thing we don’t use SLIDE RULES anymore!..................


22 posted on 02/23/2018 10:28:30 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: TigerClaws

In related news, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has restricted use of the cube root sign, stating that no one needs a number greater than a ‘2’ in the radical to perform safe math…


23 posted on 02/23/2018 10:28:33 AM PST by mikrofon (Presidents Week BUMP)
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To: TigerClaws

So they found no Guns in the house. Now what would have happened to me if I wrote the square root symbol and the police searched my house? And let say they FOUND firearms? Would that be a validation of those who complained that I drew a ‘gun symbol’?

Sick and getting sicker.


24 posted on 02/23/2018 10:28:46 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Kartographer

Yeah, a cube root or greater makes it look like there’s a hammer! More realistic!


25 posted on 02/23/2018 10:28:55 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: TigerClaws

“the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number,”

That description is completely incoherent and flat out wrong in every respect. The symbol doesn’t represent a number. It represents a function. And even if it did represent a number, EVERY number when multiplied by itself equals another number.

What a mess.


26 posted on 02/23/2018 10:28:58 AM PST by edwinland
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To: rjsimmon

Well, why not....

The Squaw of the Hippopotamus

Long ago in a plains tribe, three young men came of age and were to be married. They were sent out into the world with a bow and arrow and a knife to kill an animal the fur of which was to be used to make their marriage bed

Brave Eagle returned with a wonderful cougar hide that was tanned into a beautiful fur

Charging Bull returned with the hide of a young bear that was tanned into a beautiful fur.

Falling Rocks was not very successful. He returned with the skins of two rabbits and a squirrel. These were not large enough to make a marriage bed. His wise grand mother suggested he take them to the trading post and get a striped blanket.

Alas, the trader would not part with a blanket for such a minor return but offered a dusty hippopotamus hide that though rough was in fact large enough.

A year passed

The squaw of Brave Eagle presented him with a son

The squaw of Charging Bull presented him a beautiful daughter

The squaw of Falling Rocks presented him with twins, a boy and a girl

Theorem:
The Squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the squaws of the other two hides


27 posted on 02/23/2018 10:29:22 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: robroys woman
Home schooling is needed on a massive scale in this country if we hope to raise a generation that is not rife with complete nincompoops.

Look around. I think that ship sailed.

28 posted on 02/23/2018 10:29:24 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: TigerClaws

What did the teacher think it was.


29 posted on 02/23/2018 10:29:37 AM PST by SKI NOW
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To: robroys woman

30 posted on 02/23/2018 10:29:43 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, in the student’s defense, that symbol looks like a radical to me.


31 posted on 02/23/2018 10:30:31 AM PST by sipow
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To: shelterguy

Just be sure you get a CCW for any poptart bitten into the shape of a weapon

Ya know - with school adminstrators like this and a SecDef who talks like Patton and hugs trannies like Mrs Doubtire , I have to wonder who and what in America is still producing real heros and ordinary common sense and judgement


32 posted on 02/23/2018 10:30:36 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: TigerClaws
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33 posted on 02/23/2018 10:31:28 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Tenacious 1

Math can kill? This is huuge!

No wonder the cops were called.


34 posted on 02/23/2018 10:31:31 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: robroys woman

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be...

When you follow your heart despite your head terminal stupidity will ensue...

What do I know though, I’m just a middle ages curmudgeon.


35 posted on 02/23/2018 10:32:01 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Ken H
Isn’t that usually case except when the number is 1?

Indeed! The square root of 1 is 1.

36 posted on 02/23/2018 10:32:09 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: TigerClaws
You can't make this stuff up.

Keep your voices down, because I hope nobody notices the shape of the state of Florida.

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37 posted on 02/23/2018 10:32:09 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Red Badger

I was a nerd. Thats a lethal thing of beauty!


38 posted on 02/23/2018 10:32:23 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Red Badger

I thought “I’ll sell my K&E log log decitrig slide rule and the three others including the circular one on ebay”

Turns out they’re a dome a dozen


39 posted on 02/23/2018 10:32:56 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: shotgun
Trying to decide if your being rational or irrational...

That's kind of the root of negativity. (Ba-dum-bump)

40 posted on 02/23/2018 10:33:15 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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