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Tuesday's Bad Math Joke

· by Mr. Me · Bad Math Jokes · 3 comments

On Tuesday, I taught the formula for the area of a circle.  That led to my next bad math joke.

 A hillbilly family scrimped and saved to send their smartest child to college.  Nobody in this particular family had ever been to college before, and they hoped that this would be a new beginning for their family going forward.  After his first semester at college, he returned home for a visit.  His father, anxious to find out how his hard-earned money had been spent, asked his son what he had learned at college.

The son recited from memory the formula for the area of a circle:  "The area of a circle is equal to pi-r-squared."

The father was livid.  "You idiot!  You've wasted my money!  Everybody knows that pie are round!"

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  1. Giggles

    Why are pies round?

    I want to make a square pie now, just because. And then I'll dress like a pirate and say "Rrrr" while I walk in a circle and eat it.

    Now, what type of filling?

  2. Mr. Me

    I hear the Japanese grow cube-shaped watermelons. Maybe you need to find cubic cherries... squerries or something like that.

  3. Laylabean

    They also grow pyramid shaped watermelons. Weird...and SO cool!

    They're really expensive, about 8 times the price of a normal melon.