{"id":20,"date":"2004-04-04T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-04-04T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2004-04-04T14:25:35","slug":"joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2004\/04\/01\/math_joke.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joi Ito&#8217;s Page<\/a> contains a wonderful joke which I really have to repeat here.<\/p>\n<ul>After explaining to a student through various lessons and examples that <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/18be59df330fd62fbcd6f658e461a0e2.gif' title='\\displaystyle \\lim_{x \\to 8} \\dfrac{1}{x-8}=\\infty' alt='\\displaystyle \\lim_{x \\to 8} \\dfrac{1}{x-8}=\\infty' align=absmiddle> <br \/>\nI tried to check if she really understood that, so I gave her a different example. This was the result: <br \/>\n<img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/d5a323fc9c04956e886a81e8048b3d59.gif' title='\\displaystyle \\lim_{x \\to 5} \\dfrac{1}{x-5}=&#10;\\rotatebox{90}{5}&#10;' alt='\\displaystyle \\lim_{x \\to 5} \\dfrac{1}{x-5}=&#10;\\rotatebox{90}{5}&#10;' align=absmiddle>  <\/ul>\n<p> \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joi Ito&#8217;s Page contains a wonderful joke which I really have to repeat here. After explaining to a student through various lessons and examples that I tried to check if she really understood that, so I gave her a different example. This was the result: \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}