Comments | efreedenberg: If you don't get this entry, you are stupid.

efreedenberg

If you don't get this entry, you are stupid.

Oct 01, 2005 21:10

"Newsweek poll: Bush approval rating slide eases."

I fucking love how calculus is all around us. Second derivatives = <3.

The End.

Comments 10

masturbassist October 2 2005, 01:31:46 UTC

Hurray for calculus!!

efreedenberg October 2 2005, 01:36:51 UTC

i assume you got my point. second derivatives are love.

masturbassist October 2 2005, 02:05:28 UTC

I did indeed.

etaoin_shrdlu October 2 2005, 01:57:46 UTC

In 1972, President Richard Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. He was the first president to use the third derivative in a re-election campaign.

flubu October 2 2005, 04:35:59 UTC

looking at the intersting facts in our math room wall have finally paid off in giving you an opportunity to quote them in LJ responses...woo!

etaoin_shrdlu October 2 2005, 04:37:04 UTC

Ouch. I felt like a dork for making the reference, what does that make you for catching it?

flubu October 2 2005, 17:24:12 UTC

Um...damn.

im2hardcor4u October 2 2005, 06:07:33 UTC

Dude, first derivatives. The second would be the rate at which his approval was doing the sliding.

etaoin_shrdlu October 2 2005, 06:16:58 UTC

Right, and the slide is "easing", or slowing down. The second derivative of his approval rate is negative.

anne_archy October 2 2005, 15:58:07 UTC

Yes, I understood this post, but you are all tremendous geeks!
I love you for that.