Math Check

[TheIllustratedActuary]

Originally Posted by The Cuddling Wingman

Why not just tattoo 0.000213965 which is 6/14/2003?

Interesting idea, but it doesn't work for the spot I want to put it. I like the way you think though.

[Browncoat]

Originally Posted by ebeebs

Integrate first with respect to x, then with respect to y. First part comes out to x^2/2 +xy |8.3,1.3

Oh yeah.

[bokiz333]

Originally Posted by TheIllustratedActuary

The people that know me won't, and the people that don't will have an easy way to determine if we can be friends

Agreed. I already met my quota of "people that aren't as clever as they think they are" friends. So the tattoo and the story would probably help me greatly.

[TheIllustratedActuary]

Originally Posted by bokiz333

Agreed. I already met my quota of "people that aren't as clever as they think they are" friends. So the tattoo and the story would probably help me greatly.

Exactly. It's like a screening process.

[TheIllustratedActuary]

Originally Posted by Browncoat

Oh yeah.

This is why I asked for verification - I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something!

[Buck]

As someone else mentioned here before, have a tattoo that says:

"dy dx"

Yes, that would make you mathy. If you are female, make it a large tramp stamp on your lower back.

[Baby, ByeBye]

Originally Posted by Browncoat

Then I did something wrong.

Won't the answer be x^2/2 + y^2/2 as they independently go between their limits? Or have I forgotten a rule of something?

How did you ever pass p

[Anthemyst]

Also getting 614.2003. Agree that it's an extremely awkward way to tattoo a date, but the math checks out.

[TheIllustratedActuary]

Originally Posted by Anthemyst

Also getting 614.2003. Agree that it's an extremely awkward way to tattoo a date, but the math checks out.

Eh - I like to be different

[tometom]

I understand you are trying to get this to your anniversary. 2 thoughts.

1. Why not make the number 6142003? You might be able to hit that without adding the silly .1603 (which is the part I don't like) - oh i did this in excel and you'd need to integrate x from 1 to 200 and y from 1 to 167.8858. Obviously you could find some different numbers, I just did one quickly.

2. I don't want to be cheesy or anything, but what if you changed it like this. Instead of x+y, use a+b and write assume a=1 and b=1 under the problem. (I was thinking why not 1+1, but I assumed you were trying to make a reference that you and your wife were different people, so that's why I went with a+b and I always found it funny when you "assume" stuff in math classes.) You can still double integrate over x and y. Then use x from 0 to 25 and y from 1 to 15.28401. You could change the 25 to your age when you met (thus you were alone from 0 to that age) and change 1 to the length of your engagement. Then just use the goal seek function to find the top bound. You could make up a cool story about that number as well, but I didn't see any other way to get to 614.2003.