Bogus Mathematical Theorems

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[[Strong Bad]] periodically invents '''bogus mathematical theorems''' to illustrate his responses to fans on his [[Strong Bad Email]] show.
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[[Strong Bad]] periodically invents '''false mathematical theorems''' to illustrate his responses to fans on his [[Strong Bad Email]] show.
==The Transitive Butt Property==
==The Transitive Butt Property==

Revision as of 22:09, 3 October 2007

Strong Bad periodically invents false mathematical theorems to illustrate his responses to fans on his Strong Bad Email show.

The Transitive Butt Property

"Don't you remember your algebra, man?"

When the sender of email butt IQ is skeptical that any sort of IQ test exists to determine whether or not someone's butt is stupid, Strong Bad quickly refutes his ignorance with the following property:

\begin{array}{c}\mbox{The stupidity of somebody}'\mbox{s butt is greater than}\\\mbox{or equal to the stupidity of that person}'\mbox{s head.}\end{array}

Symbolically, this can be written as

\mbox{ stupid(butt)}\geq\mbox{ stupid(head)}

The Property of Ones

When a fan asks Strong Bad if he's ever had a one that was not cold, he responds by stating the Property of Ones: "The ONEitude is directly proportional to the Colditude of the ONE." Here follows a brief analysis of this statement.

We consider a One with the following properties:

  • \!{\mathcal O}^{\mathrm{itude}} is a measure of the Oneness of the One.
  • \!T is the temperature of the One.
  • \!c^{\mathrm{itude}} is the coldness of the One.

The Oneness of the One can be determined by the following simple formula:

{\mathcal O}^{\mathrm{itude}}\propto c^{\mathrm{itude}} .

We expect the coldness to approach zero when the temperature of a One is very large; likewise, it is reasonable to define coldness to be infinite as temperature approaches absolute zero:

\lim\limits_{T\to\infty}c^{\mathrm{itude}}=0,\quad\lim\limits_{T\to0^+}c^{\mathrm{itude}}=\infty .

This is compatible with the expected inverse relationship between coldness and temperature:

c^{\mathrm{itude}}=\frac1T .

As a result, we can rewrite our expression for Oneness in terms of temperature:

{\mathcal O}^{\mathrm{itude}}=\frac{k}T ,

so that k is a proportionality constant (in units of Oneness times kelvins) that uniquely determines the Oneitude of a One given its temperature. In Strong Bad's own words, this can be simply stated:

The Oneitude is directly proportional to the Colditude of the One.

Or in other words:

The colder it is, the more of a one it is.

Coolguy's Law

In order to assist an email sender who was having difficulty determining which slumber parties are worth attending, Strong Bad stated an important relation between the popularity of a potential party host and the amount of fun available to be had:

\begin{array}{c}\mbox{ The popularity of the host is inversely proportional}\\\mbox{to the amount of fun you can have at their house.}\end{array}

This law is illustrated symbolically in the figure to the right.

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