Overheard (July 2020)

[RZ923]

@debbie what about the weekend livestream?

[debbie]

@RZ923 I will put Saturday's quotes in tonight. Thanks for your patience!

[debbie]

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.

[debbie]

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.

[divinedolphin]

@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.

[divinedolphin]

​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

[divinedolphin]

Prof. Loh: $\infty+\infty=\infty$, and if you subtract infinity from both sides, $\infty=0$. "Don't try this at home"

[The Blade Dancer]

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

[SmartStrawberry]

Lolololol

[Potato2017]

lol $$$$

[The Blade Dancer]

If you're in, I'm in. Master server builder here @Potato2017 you've seen my servers

[Potato2017]

@The-Rogue-Blade Yup

[The Blade Dancer]

Ok if you guys give the go ahead I'm starting in a few days

[divinedolphin]

I don't use discord.

[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.

[divinedolphin]

I would quote you on some of these, but these are all really really funny

[divinedolphin]

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.

[debbie]

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.

[debbie]

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.

[RZ923]

@debbie wow Turtlelink was there?