Prank that gone wrong

Dec 18, 2016 1:01 AM

Ewynn

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Yesterday a friend of mine tried to joke texting me "Internet is challenging you!" with this picture. He knew about my love in mathematics, but I doubt he thought about me actually solving this.

When I've got a little break at work I started thinking about this. Pretty obvious the main difficulty is the integral of sin(x)/x (where x is hotdog!). Beer are getting out of the integral as variables and we have this simple at first sight integral.
But, unfortunatelly it is not representable in simple functions. I've googled this as sine integral (never actually tried to do this before). A few minutes later I represented sinx as Taylor series and integrated the infinite sum to get this result. The only thing I haven't actually got is the sum of the series with x = inf. I've written a script and got first 10 elements with big numbers but approximation is not the best way to do this, so I've got the answer from the wikipedia.

So if you ever wanted to integrate a sin of hotdog, here you are.

Woo boy!
FP Edit, thank you guys, you are awesome.
Send me your integrals/solutions. Hotdog would do it as well!

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Wouldn't it be 5pi/4?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well...obviously.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Russian? Russian!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Let me have a look

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Using definite integrals; dx/x^2 + a^2 = π/a*2 gives us 10*π/2*2 = 5π/2 or 5*∫0->π 1/2 x sin(x) dx = π/2*5

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey I got it right without looking at your solution. And we did it the same way. I just didn't try by parts cause it looked terrible

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Math is a helluva drug.

9 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 0

Straight up, most mathematicians that genuinely create new math are addicted to stimulants. Amphetamines are common

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Math...not even once.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Math. Not even once.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Never math and hot dog

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

v

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an engineer who is no longer in school, I consulted my standard bar food table and found that i don't give a fuck. Confirmed via Wolfram.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bravo, @OP! Greatest moment of my education was when a professor gave me permission to look up an integral instead of doing it from scratch.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

But it is the fun part! It still blowing my mind when I think that Euler did this almost 300 years ago.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

@OP I just finished my calculus final and this is hilarious.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I can't remember calculus anymore :(

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

That's fine 99% of people don't need to know it

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

This is so beautiful. I just finished my calc 2 final yesterday haha

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Congratulations! Cheer yourself with beer hotdog and a few integrals, probably :)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck you, and your math.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Legit emojinalysis.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Should have just used Wolframalpha

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

integral of Sinc(x) (which is sin(x)/x) from -inf to inf is Pi. Integral from 0 to inf would be half that. Its seen in Fourier transforms.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I know about sin(x)/x function but never tried to integrate it. The problem is to prove that sinc(x) from -inf to inf is Pi.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And, since it is non-integratable function I tried series instead. With knowing sinc(x) we can see the result straight from wiki!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You've just proven the beer frankfurter pie equation, also known as the Isn't That So Special Theory of Carbohydrate Fields.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Expect a call from the Nobel committee in the morning. Telling you not to quit your day job...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Pretty obvious..." no OP. You have a gift, I do not.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

You really don't have to be gifted to understand integration. You might need to be willing to learn it but that's about it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

прекрасные расчеты, товарищ!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Isn't ir just the integration of sin(hotdog)/hotdog then just plug and chug.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You are correct.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

aka plug integrate 5sin(x)/x from 0 to infinity into wolfram|alpha.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

v

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

This. This is the one I was looking for

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your handwriting is worse than a doctor's.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

it's actually a very good handwriting

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sooo hotdog is something with pie in it?!

9 years ago | Likes 121 Dislikes 1

Hamburger*pie/beer. Hamburger is 5, beer is 2.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's the mystery meat

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Hot dog is actually just a variable. No value. I'm drunk so if this is sarcastic I missed it sorry.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just a plug in....could have been dicks and would be the same.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Creampie

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Ha!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

answer is half hotdogpie

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Two and half a pie to be precise.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hot dog is just a variable. In this problem it had every value from 0 to infinity. It's no different from x, y, z, smiley face, or anything.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Nope. Hotdog is 2,5 pies. As seen in picture.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No it isn't, the integral of the 5 times sine of hotdog divided by hotdog from 0 to ∞ is 5pi/2. , hotdog = x.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or should it be (hamburger*π)/beer?

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Nice

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didn't follow a thing you said there, but I am proud of you. Looks like a lot of work.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Its not much work. Pretty simple problem once you learn about integration

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In math I had problems either going in circles or reducing too much and ending up with 3=3. No shit, self. I already know that.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2nd year engineering student. I actually understood the majority of that math!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

majority? Dude this is high school math

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

All of that math could be high school math.However most unis will go over it again to make sure their students know it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Integrals are 1st year calculus for me along with Taylor expansions. Plus I hated that stuff and I finished my multivariable calculus on 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Friday so I didn't want to read through and try to put my knowledge to the rest. I'm here for kittens and puppers, not more calculus :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0