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Lirange 01-24-2010 05:55 AM

Explain this joke
 
"A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd. Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering a building. Ten minutes later they reappeared together with a third person. “They have multiplied,” said the biologist. “Oh no, an error in measurement,” the physicist sighed. “If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again,” the mathematician concluded."

I don't get it.

Hraesvelg 01-24-2010 06:00 AM

Are you wondering about the math bit? It's because you started with 0 (empty), you added 2, subtracted 3, and need to add another one to get it back to 0.

Sero 01-24-2010 06:20 AM

I get it xD

cillia 01-24-2010 06:23 AM

i... barely get it... xD but it doesnt seem funny since i had to strain my pathetic brain to understand it...

Hraesvelg 01-24-2010 06:29 AM

Eh, I don't think it is really meant to be funny, in the traditional sense. I think it's meant to be one of those "Ha! I understand it, therefore I am superior!" type jokes. The kind Mensa members like to tell each other. Humorless bastards.

a.L 01-24-2010 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hraesvelg (Post 400370)
Ha! I understand it, therefore I am superior!

I am superior. lulz

Phantom Badger 01-24-2010 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hraesvelg (Post 400364)
Are you wondering about the math bit? It's because you started with 0 (empty), you added 2, subtracted 3, and need to add another one to get it back to 0.

But, how do you not know that there was someone already in the building; Going from 1 + the 2 that entered = 3 then - 3 would equal 0, then another 1 would make 1...
The joke didnt say the building was empty.

Ivramire 01-24-2010 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hraesvelg (Post 400370)
Eh, I don't think it is really meant to be funny, in the traditional sense. I think it's meant to be one of those "Ha! I understand it, therefore I am superior!" type jokes. The kind Mensa members like to tell each other. Humorless bastards.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackDragonEX (Post 400386)
But, how do you not know that there was someone already in the building; Going from 1 + the 2 that entered = 3 then - 3 would equal 0, then another 1 would make 1...
The joke didnt say the building was empty.


Where true genius lies.

Blaaaaaaaah 01-24-2010 10:06 AM

Because a lot of mathematicians like to assume things.

Hraesvelg 01-24-2010 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackDragonEX (Post 400386)
But, how do you not know that there was someone already in the building; Going from 1 + the 2 that entered = 3 then - 3 would equal 0, then another 1 would make 1...
The joke didnt say the building was empty.

I didn't write the joke. Don't shoot the messenger, heh.


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