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joke time
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 (December 1, 2021 at 6:59 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Me: I'm terrified of the vertical axis. Yeah, still not understanding this one.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter 
In the planar Cartesian coordinate system, "Y" (why, the homonym) is up.
In 3D, to include cylindrical coordinate systems, Z is the vertical axis, as OLB "pointed" out. Back to jokes, but with math- ![[Image: xXZzPxL.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/xXZzPxL.jpg)
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
  (December 3, 2021 at 12:57 am)ignoramus Wrote:(December 1, 2021 at 6:59 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Me: I'm terrified of the vertical axis. I plotted it that way. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
But where is it on the probability axis?
Signed Arthur Dent (December 3, 2021 at 2:33 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: But where is it on the probability axis? Arthur Dent wouldn’t know a probability axis from an African fjord. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
I think it's Tau in the Heinlein books. I'd have to revisit that to be sure. Let me get on my irrelevancy bus and go check.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
(December 3, 2021 at 4:09 pm)Fireball Wrote: I think it's Tau in the Heinlein books. I'd have to revisit that to be sure. Let me get on my irrelevancy bus and go check. Just don’t go anywhere dangerous - Gay Deceiver is a bit of a nervous nellie. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
RE: joke time
December 3, 2021 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2021 at 4:29 pm by onlinebiker.)
(December 3, 2021 at 3:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 3, 2021 at 2:33 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: But where is it on the probability axis? When he and Ford get picked up by the Heart of Gold - he is subjected to a very visceral demonstration of it .... So he might not know the math - but he' s got a good idea what it looks like.... (December 3, 2021 at 4:27 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(December 3, 2021 at 3:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Arthur Dent wouldn’t know a probability axis from an African fjord. No, he’s got a good idea of what it does. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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