Overheard (July 2020)
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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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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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@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. -
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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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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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
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Lolololol
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lol $$$$
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If you're in, I'm in. Master server builder here @Potato2017 you've seen my servers
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@The-Rogue-Blade Yup
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Ok if you guys give the go ahead I'm starting in a few days
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I don't use discord.
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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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I would quote you on some of these, but these are all really really funny
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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. -
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.
"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.
"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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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.
"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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@debbie wow Turtlelink was there?
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@RZ923 Yes... he was!
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Overheard from the Friday 7/24/20 live stream
"It's an hour after \(\pi\) time." --- S.
"Yeah Po the god of math." --- B.
"Cyclic quadrilateral EPIC!!!" --- S.
"I can NEVER in my life draw to-scale circles (without a compass)... They are always extremely lumpy... That's why I sometimes mess up problems... cuz of my not-accurate drawings." --- M.
"Yes yes yes this one this one this one should be a parallelogram." --- J.
"OH I CREATED A THEOREM TO PROVE WE ARE IN A SIMULATION." --- P.
"Basically, we aren't real but we are living in a mind illusion stating that we are being controlled by a higher species and/or we don't exist." --- P."Three normal dice. That sort of rhymes with three blind mice. But that's totally unrelated..." --- Prof. Loh
"There's almost half a chance that someone is watching who has their birthday today, so happy birthday \(\frac{159}{365}\) people!" --- D.
"Fun fact: If you had wings, you could technically fly on Titan without mechanical power." -- T.
