12/24/2004: Happy polar bear Xmas

[xoxoxoBruce]

This bear from a Chinese Zoo looks a little yellow......and hungry for fish.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

This bear from a Chinese Zoo looks a little yellow......and hungry for fish.

That bear definitely does not look well. And that guy holding up the fish should hand it over already to the poor fellow.

Originally Posted by CharlieG

That's not a polar bear - it's a Cartesian bear after a coordinate transform

I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

[xoxoxoBruce]

THREADJACK

Mushrooms: the evil fungus

You might be right, Garnet.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

THREADJACK
You might be right, Garnet.

Don't touch that! That's evil!

Let me know if you need an exorcism, my dear.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by garnet

I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

Not true. I thought it was very funny.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by garnet

I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

I thought it was hilarious. It seems that it is just you.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by wolf

I thought it was hilarious. It seems that it is just you.

Really? From some of the other replies in the thread it appears that others didn't get either, and you would therefore be exaggerating, wouldn't you? Oooops, I forgot, wolf knows everthing. Silly me.

[CharlieG]

Originally Posted by garnet

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I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

Not a theory - just math - any time you plot something on a grid, it can be refered to in 2 ways...

X and Y - which is what most people thing of - That's called "Cartesian coordinates"

OR

an angle, and the distance from 0 - called a Polar Coordinates

Now you can fairly easily convert from one to the other, and converting from one to the other is called a "Transform" - hence you can convert Polar to Cartesian, or Cartesian to Polar any time you want - same thing, different way of talking about it

Call it a high brow math joke