On May 18, 2004, at 9:00, Clay Blackwell wrote:
Well, dear one, you may rest that objection. The formula requires it to be a "X", not a "plus".
The way we know that is the line, "money times money equals money squared"
My objection is to the first x, which *should have been* a +... I quote from the site:
"First we state that girls that girls require time *and* money. Girls=Time x Money".
Last I heard, "and" meant "plus", not "times". So, "time and money" should have been written out as "Time + Money". The rest of the "proof" falls flat on its face because, as Robin Panza said (she's not on chat, sent the message privately):
Money + Money = double money, not money squared. So the initial equation is incorrect--it says "Girls are time times money", not "Girls require time and money".
So, OK. We *start* with a sloppily written equation (never mind the - rather dubious - supposition that *girls* require time and money. And boys don't?). We follow it up with another blooper. As Sue Babbs pointed out:
The quote 'Money is the root of all evil' is incorrect, if that helps. The
actual quote says that 'the love of money is the root of all evil'
So, the "proof" is invalid on *two* counts, not just one :) Yet...
Weronika Patena (a student at Cal Tech) wrote:
Not refutable, other than the "absolute value" comment someone already added on the same page. Which, by the way, means that either girls = evil or girls = -evil, so it's not that bad <g>
And Liz Beecher wrote:
Being a mathematician - I am sorry to say that the mathematical equations are
absolutely correct and that it does appear that I am evil.
Seems to me, if you include my own objection to a wrong sign being used, it's:
Language Arts: 3, Mathematics: 0. <g> Robin, who spotted the mistake in "translation" (from English to math language), is a scientist herself, but of the generation somewhat closer to me in age than either Liz or Weronika. I am a little disturbed that the "young ones" are so careless of context, so willing to focus narrowly...
Robin throws in another interesting "equation" (philosophical, this time <g>):
[...] anything we value requires time and money, so everything of value is evil.
I'd put "either", rather than "and" between "time" and "money" but, otherwise... Food for thought, I think.
http://www.anvari.org/fun/Gender/Proof_that_Girls_are_Evil.html
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