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* A sketch in series 1 episode 3 of ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' involves a "hilarious blooper" from a 1970s Open University programme, in which Hugh Laurie's presenter talks us through a blackboard full of nonsensical integral-like equations. What's more, the flub involves the equation giving a "resultant modular quantity" of 0.567395, rather than 0.567359 as Laurie's character states, when the integral in question has no limits and wouldn't have a numerical solution, not to mention that the programme appears to be a physics lecture about wave theory, which wouldn't involve numbers that precise as solutions anyway... Hmm, come to think of it, that's a hilarious blooper in itself! I don't believe it! Ha ha ha ha!

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* A sketch in series 1 episode 3 of ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' involves a "hilarious blooper" from a 1970s Open University programme, in which Hugh Laurie's presenter talks us through a blackboard full of nonsensical integral-like equations. What's more, the flub involves the equation giving a "resultant modular quantity" of 0.567395, rather than 0.567359 as Laurie's character states, when the integral in question has no limits and wouldn't have a numerical solution, not to mention that the programme appears to be a physics lecture about wave theory, which wouldn't involve numbers that precise as solutions anyway... Hmm, come to think of it, that's a hilarious blooper in itself! I don't believe it! Ha ha ha ha!anyway.



* Music/MariahCarey went so far as to name her most recent album ''E=MC[--[[superscript:2]]--]''. She claims it stands for "(E) Emancipation (=) equals (MC) Mariah Carey to the second power." Yeah right.

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* Music/MariahCarey went so far as to name her most recent 2008 album ''E=MC[--[[superscript:2]]--]''. She claims it stands for "(E) Emancipation (=) equals (MC) Mariah Carey to the second power." Yeah right.
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* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', the protagonist's brilliance is established when he solves in one day the problem of finding "all the homeomorphic irreducible trees of degree 10" which took a team of professors two years. This is a real math problem but while it sounds incredibly daunting it's really the kind of thing any graduate student in mathematics should be able to solve in an afternoon.

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* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', the protagonist's brilliance is established when he solves in one day the problem of finding "all the homeomorphic irreducible trees of degree 10" which took a team of professors two years. This is a real math problem problem, but while it sounds incredibly daunting daunting, it's really the kind of thing any graduate student in mathematics should be able to solve in an afternoon.
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* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', the protagonist's brilliance is established when he solves in one day the problem of finding "all the homeomorphic irreducible trees of degree 10" which took a team of professors two years. This is a real math problem but while it sounds incredibly daunting its really the kind of thing any graduate student in mathematics should be able to solve in an afternoon.

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* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', the protagonist's brilliance is established when he solves in one day the problem of finding "all the homeomorphic irreducible trees of degree 10" which took a team of professors two years. This is a real math problem but while it sounds incredibly daunting its it's really the kind of thing any graduate student in mathematics should be able to solve in an afternoon.
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* Rimmer does this to himself in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when he covers his arms and legs in revision notes and equations that are beyond his capacity to understand, in order to cheat on a test he is clearly not qualified to pass.

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* Rimmer does this to himself in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when he covers his arms and legs in revision notes and equations that which are beyond his capacity to understand, in order to cheat on a test he is clearly not qualified to pass.
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* Rimmer does this to himself in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when he covers his arms and legs in astrophysics equations that are beyond his capacity to understand to cheat on a test he is clearly not qualified to pass.
-->'''Rimmer:''' Right, they're bound to ask the right thigh, which is 10 per cent. They must ask the left thigh, which is 20 per cent. They've got to ask one of the forearms. Which means I've passed already; anything on the left shin's a bonus! Right. *Looks at one arm* `CUTIE'. Current under tension is... what's this? Current under tension is equal? Current under tension is expendable? Current under tension is expensive? What does this ''mean?'' *Begins to panic* ''What does any of it mean?'' I've covered my body in complete and utter and total absolute nonsense ''gibberish!''

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* Rimmer does this to himself in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when he covers his arms and legs in astrophysics revision notes and equations that are beyond his capacity to understand understand, in order to cheat on a test he is clearly not qualified to pass.
-->'''Rimmer:''' Right, they're bound to ask the right thigh, which is 10 per cent. They must ask the left thigh, which is 20 per cent. They've got to ask one of the forearms. Which means I've passed already; anything on the left shin's a bonus! Right. *Looks (''looks at one arm* `CUTIE'. arm'') "CUTIE": Current under tension is... Under Tension Is... what's this? Current under tension is equal? Current under tension is expendable? Current under tension is expensive? "Current Under Tension Is Equal"? "Current Under Tension Is Expendable"? "Current Under Tension Is Expensive"? What does this ''mean?'' *Begins (''begins to panic* ''What panic'') What does any ''any'' of it mean?'' this mean? I've covered my body in complete and utter and total absolute nonsense ''gibberish!''

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