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    • debbieD
      debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5 @RZ923
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      @RZ923 I will put Saturday's quotes in tonight. 🙂 Thanks for your patience!

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      • debbieD
        debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5
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        Overheard from the Saturday, 7/4/20 live stream

        "Poor "x" -- always lost..." --- P.

        "Light doesn't travel. It's a perturbation of neighboring particles giving the illusion of movement. It's taught wrongly." --- J.

        "Bananas smell really bad in the car." --- D.

        "War is fun until you learn an actual card game." --- E.

        "Black Magic sounds sketchy..." --- Y. (Referring to the company that makes professional video recording equipment and video editing software, some of which Prof. Loh uses) 🌚

        "We sometimes sneak a bit of Calculus at the AMA too..." --- S. (In answer to the question, "When should one start learning calculus?")

        "You like to move it move it?" --- M. (During Prof. Loh's answer to the question, "Do you like to move?")

        "100th anniversary of Prof. Loh's house." --- C.

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        • debbieD
          debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5
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          Overheard from the Monday 7/6/20 live stream

          "BTW I just came from a virtual math circle and I'm very tempted to give my homework to Prof. Po but will not do that." --- M.

          "Petition to rename livestream Ask Banana Anything." --- W.
          "ASK BANANAS ANYTHING." --- J.
          "ABA = Ask Banana Anything." --- M.
          "Ask Farmer Po Anything." --- S.

          "This is an i n t e r e s t i n g cream-colored shirt." --- H.

          "I'm loving this." --- V.

          "What?! I didn't know that bananas are clones." --- B.

          "Prof. Loh is the equal of Yoda but in math." --- B.

          "Me feels smart." --- C.

          "If you go to National MATHCOUNTS, you get to come back with a nice TI calculator. They give all the contestants a nice graphing calculator. I guess that's why they do allow calculators on the Target Round. I mean, it would be weird if you go to a competition that doesn't allow calculators and they give you a calculator." --- Prof. Loh

          "Good job, you have won a calculator that you can't ever use in this competition!" --- P.

          On QWERTY calculators:
          "It's literally a phone." --- B.
          "A thicc phone without the coolness." --- K.

          ""Ancient bits of history." --- Prof. Loh regarding TI-92 (from 1996 (which is not so ancient))" --- V.

          ""Cuz it was 1996." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- S.

          ""I can still add to 20." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- P.

          "Googleplexian plus 1." --- P. (On the biggest number you can write down.)
          "Googolplex factorialed googolplex times is VERY big." --- T.

          "Imagine 9 is laughing at 8 for being smaller and then 8 falls over to turn into infinity." --- A.

          "Get your Lohmobile today for \(\$ 9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9}}}}}}}\)" --- I.

          "Have a cookie! 🍪 " --- H.
          "You should say, "Have a banana!"" --- C. 🍌

          "The absolute value of prof Po is Prof po." --- M.

          "All over 2!!! That's what it says in the quadratic formula song!!" --- M.

          "Fun z time! (z = complex number)." --- V.

          "Po-Shen Loh, 2020 quarantine: "I don't use calculators anymore."" --- L.

          "It work under 2 if you bend space time!" --- A.

          "Hopefully that person doesn't get annoyed... You know, there are people out there who just like to press the knight's tour phone number..." --- Prof. Loh, referring to the solution of the Knight's Tour question as a valid phone number

          "Plot twist: That's my phone number." --- A.

          "There is 1 minute left. What happens if I propose a JMO problem for Po-Shen Loh to do?" --- M.

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          • divinedolphinD
            divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6★ @debbie
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            @debbie said in Overheard (July 2020):

            Overheard from the Monday 7/6/20 live stream

            "BTW I just came from a virtual math circle and I'm very tempted to give my homework to Prof. Po but will not do that." --- M.
            "ASK BANANAS ANYTHING." --- J.
            "If you go to National MATHCOUNTS, you get to come back with a nice TI calculator. They give all the contestants a nice graphing calculator. I guess that's why they do allow calculators on the Target Round. I mean, it would be weird if you go to a competition that doesn't allow calculators and they give you a calculator." --- Prof. Loh
            "Good job, you have won a calculator that you can't ever use in this competition!" --- P.
            "Googleplexian plus 1." --- P. (On the biggest number you can write down.)
            "Googolplex factorialed googolplex times is VERY big." --- T.
            "Imagine 9 is laughing at 8 for being smaller and then 8 falls over to turn into infinity." --- A.

            "Get your Lohmobile today for \(\$ 9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9}}}}}}}\)" --- I.
            "Po-Shen Loh, 2020 quarantine: "I don't use calculators anymore."" --- L.
            "There is 1 minute left. What happens if I propose a JMO problem for Po-Shen Loh to do?" --- M.

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            • divinedolphinD
              divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6★
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              ​Problem from E. W. "There is a number composed of 94 nines. There is also a number with 94 sevens. When you multiply these two numbers, what is the digit sum?"

              "Wow! Who wants to do this by just multiplying? Let's go and multiply, let's write a BIG thing and multiply, anyone want to join me?" -Prof. Loh (with lots of excited arm gestures)

              haha

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              • divinedolphinD
                divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6★
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                Prof. Loh: \(\infty+\infty=\infty\), and if you subtract infinity from both sides, \(\infty=0\). "Don't try this at home"

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                • The Blade DancerT
                  The Blade Dancer M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4 M5
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                  We should make a math server on Discord. And then I can invite everyone to my server. oooh I can smell the profits coming in

                  The Blade Dancer
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                  • SmartStrawberryS
                    SmartStrawberry M2★ M3★ M4★
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                    Lolololol

                    The Smartest Strawberry
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                    • Potato2017P
                      Potato2017 M5★
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                      lol $$$$

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                      • The Blade DancerT
                        The Blade Dancer M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4 M5
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                        If you're in, I'm in. Master server builder here @Potato2017 you've seen my servers

                        The Blade Dancer
                        League of Legends, Valorant: Harlem Charades (#NA1)
                        Discord: Change nickname if gay#7585

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                        • Potato2017P
                          Potato2017 M5★ @The Blade Dancer
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                          @The-Rogue-Blade Yup

                          The best Potato
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                          yt: http://bit.ly/potatosubscribe
                          discord: Potato2017#1822 (it's tent#0001 now)
                          tetr.io: https://ch.tetr.io/u/potato2017
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                          • The Blade DancerT
                            The Blade Dancer M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4 M5
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                            Ok if you guys give the go ahead I'm starting in a few days

                            The Blade Dancer
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                            • divinedolphinD
                              divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6★
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                              I don't use discord.

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                              • debbieD
                                debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5
                                last edited by debbie

                                Overheard from the Wednesday 7/8/20 live stream

                                "Hello! Bananas, broken calculators, mobius bread and questions regarding the color of t-shirts await you in this live stream!" --- X.

                                "Keyboards DO NOT taste good." --- T.

                                "Late by 24 hours and 10 seconds." --- S. (After not knowing that the live stream schedule changed)

                                "Remember when he had live streams every day..." --- P.

                                "There was a time in my life when I also was afraid that I would get sucked up by a vacuum cleaner..." --- Prof. Loh, musing about vacuum cleaners

                                "Humans are too fat to get sucked in." --- B. (musing about Prof. Loh musing about getting sucked up by a vacuum)

                                "A vacuum cleaner cleans vacuums." --- C.

                                "Lightning bolt = 21 gigawatts." --- L.

                                "The final reason why kids should do chores is that it gives them other things to do than play video games and watch TV." --- P.

                                "Lasers can trick cats in vacuum cleaners." --- A. (The vacuum cleaner discussion gets serious.)

                                "Vacuum cleaners scare cats, and cats scare some humans, so therefore vacuum cleaners scare humans." --- T.

                                "Welcome to Ask Physics Anything! I'm your host, Po-Shen Loh, and I only know math, so now let's see if I can answer a physics question." --- Prof. Loh

                                "And then you have to yell at the cat to go away... actually, you don't have to do that, because the vacuum makes the cat go away." --- Prof. Loh 🐱

                                "I once heard that if you put your lightbulb in your mouth, you'll never pull it out again." --- M.

                                "Human vs. vacuum." --- Prof. Loh, doing a serious calculation

                                ""Big motion of machines." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- T.

                                "AMA = Ask MOP Anything." --- K.

                                "SFFT = Simon's Fattest Fat Chicken." --- W. (Regarding Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick)
                                "SFFT = Simon's Favorite Fat Turkey." --- W.

                                "Does anyone know if dogs can eat onions? ik it's random but it's important." --- D.

                                "We need PFFT = Po's Favorite Factoring Trick." --- M.

                                "Did you guys know that giraffes have really long tongues and sometimes use their tongues to clean their ears!" --- M. 👅

                                ""So it's like bigly negative! Bigly. Bigly is a word now." --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- M.
                                "It's better than 'hugely.'" --- E.

                                ""No, it's too pretty." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- W.

                                "In the same way, you can get better at non-math if you have a math background." --- Prof. Loh (In response to the question, "How to improve in math from being a non-math background?")

                                "Um.... sorry, I was eating a banana. What was this?" --- I.

                                ""What kind of nonsense question is this?!?" --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- F.

                                "Proof that Po-Shen Loh is a minion: He likes bananas (and so do minions), he wears yellow (and so guess what else is yellow? That's right! Minions!), and he wears glasses (one step away from goggles)." --- A.

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                                • divinedolphinD
                                  divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6★
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                                  I would quote you on some of these, but these are all really really funny🤣

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                                  • divinedolphinD
                                    divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6★
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                                    Prof. Loh did an AMC 8 2015 Problem 25 in the live stream today (he did this sometime in May too).
                                    "Prof has bad memory" ---M.

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                                    • debbieD
                                      debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5
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                                      Overheard from the Friday 7/10/20 live stream

                                      "I am eating a banana right now." --- S.

                                      "Po has the FOV (field of vision) of a bird." --- P.

                                      "Imagine if a random person clicks on this video and is shocked at what we are doing!" --- A.

                                      "Our eyes are longer than they are tall." --- V. (On why a computer screen has aspect ratio 16:9)

                                      "Why don't we all turn into owls?" --- F. (On how owls have a wide field of vision)

                                      "LUMP + BROKEN CALCULATOR + BANANA = GREEN SHIRT." --- V.

                                      "The world would litterly explode." --- S.

                                      "BLAH is the new lump." --- T.

                                      "What is BLAH \( \times 5?\) BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH! BLAH is a legit number.... This thing.... has BLAH BLAH in it.... \(0 \times \) BLAH! It's gone!" --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- V.

                                      20200710-live-blah.png

                                      "BLAH times negative one is HALB." --- Prof. Loh

                                      "Here's a question that I don't know how to do, that looks cute." --- Prof. Loh

                                      "American yellow cheese: A key ingredient in the McDonald's hamburger... no, McDonald's cheeseburger." --- Prof. Loh, after looking at the picture of a rotated square shaded yellow, fit into the square with corners cut out.

                                      20200710-live-american-cheese.png

                                      🧀
                                      "There something called cheddar, and then there's something called American cheese." --- Prof. Loh
                                      "AMERICAN YELLOW CHEESE! TURN IT INTO A SHIRT, ADD HIS REGULAR SHIRT, and IT'S A GREEN SHIRT!" --- V.
                                      "No, it's actually a mash of of mustard and bread!" --- A.
                                      "AMERICAN CHEESE IS NOT CHEESE." --- E.
                                      "The benevolent American cheese." --- J.
                                      "McDonald's cheese." --- T.
                                      "That lumpy square looks like a square pillow. "American yellow cheese," --- Prof. Loh replies." --- V.
                                      "This is.... AMC cheese?" --- T.
                                      "Burger King Ph.D." --- L.
                                      "Never heard of American cheese, I'm Singaporean." --- S. 🤷
                                      "YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE OF CHEESE." --- E.

                                      🐟
                                      "My fish died today." --- S.

                                      ""Some ridiculously skinny rectangle." --- Prof. Loh" --- V.
                                      "Skinny Recti" --- I.
                                      "Squiggly Straight Lines = LUMP" --- V.

                                      "The Prof. Loh brain is so cool, it's prob bigger than the Empire State Building." --- K.

                                      "(_) bag of Doritos don't make me spill them." ---- S.

                                      "If you do run over rise by accident you will still get the right answer." --- Prof. Loh, describing a slope problem, where \( \text{slope } = \frac{\text{rise}}{\text{run}}.\)
                                      "The return of the epols." --- T.

                                      "This, by the way, is a very depressing problem.... A fly is just going to go back and forth until......... I mean, we all think about the cars, but what about the fly?" --- Prof. Loh
                                      "The fly crashes in the car and gets swatted at a red light by the driver." --- V.
                                      "Maybe the fly is used as a cushion to prevent the cars from crashing." --- S.
                                      "According to physics, the fly won't get hurt." --- B.
                                      "People ask what is the fly, not how is the fly." --- D.

                                      "My important discovery states that we are living in a simulation or also known as a virtual world beyond our conscience." --- P.

                                      "I don't know, I never pay attention to this, except I sort of do." --- Prof. Loh

                                      "You get 37.5 points for doing nothing!" --- Prof. Loh (on the AMC 10 grading system which gives 1.5 points for a blank answer)
                                      "Wow!! This is a nice test." --- W.

                                      "We have a nuthouse here, I guess." --- T.

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                                      • debbieD
                                        debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5
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                                        Overheard from the Friday 7/17/20 live stream

                                        "My brain has rotten due to the lack of Ask Math Anything." --- S.

                                        ""Raisinable." -- Po-Shen Loh 2020" --- I.

                                        "SHMICK ZAT LICK BOOTON." --- K. (Smack that like button)

                                        ""I try to answer questions." --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- K.

                                        "20 K Subs!" --- T.

                                        "The ONE TIME there are technical difficulties." --- E.

                                        "He is HACKING ahhhhhh..." --- A.
                                        "HE IS A HACKER OMG LOL" --- A.

                                        temp-20200717-hacking.png

                                        "Infinitesimal is the opposite I think." --- D. (In answer to the question, "What is the opposite of infinity?"

                                        " sin(gerine) ÷ cos(gerine) = "tan" (gerine)" --- B.

                                        "Why is π infinite? My teacher's not that bright. Please help." --- A.
                                        "If I recall, I think the proof that π is irrational is pretty difficult." --- Turtlelink, moderator

                                        ""Ouch!" --- Po-Shen Loh." --- E.

                                        "QUIZ QUESTION: Which YouTube setting creates a psychological rebirth?" --- E.

                                        "I love the rain sound effects. Very relaxing." --- Z.

                                        "QUIZ QUESTION 2: Which country has never been defeated in a war?" (Answer: Canada)

                                        "1.) Canada - United States 8,893;
                                        2.) Kazakhstan-Russia 7,644;
                                        3.) Argentina-Chile 6,691
                                        4.) China-Mongolia 4,630" --- R.
                                        (On lengths of longest borders between neighboring countries)

                                        "CALCULUS ALERT! PLEASE STEP OUT OF THE CALCULUS ZONE!" ⚠ 🖐 (When Prof. Loh started talking about the question, "Find all the possible values for \( ln{(e^x)}.\) )

                                        "What is seen in the middle of March and April that can't be seen at the beginning or end of either month?" --- T. (Answer: the letter "r")

                                        "Did you just ask me to define an undefinable real number?" --- Prof. Loh, in answer to the question, "Can you give me an example of an undefinable real number?" ❓ ❓ ❓

                                        "I have a question. How many countries have fought wars with animals?" --- A. 🦊 🐻 🐺 🦍 🦁

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                                        • RZ923R
                                          RZ923 M0★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5 @debbie
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                                          @debbie wow Turtlelink was there?

                                          Very Interesting

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                                          • debbieD
                                            debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5 @RZ923
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                                            @RZ923 Yes... he was! 🙂

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