I'll have to show this to my trig students today!
A pig farmer, a ballooning company, and a mathematician walk into a courtroom: http://modernfarmer.com/2014/10/balloon ... etry-read/
Pig Trigonometry
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Bill Spight
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Re: Pig Trigonometry
From the link:
Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?140 sows miscarried as many as 800 piglets.
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— Winona Adkins
Visualize whirled peas.
Everything with love. Stay safe.
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Re: Pig Trigonometry
Bill Spight wrote:From the link:
Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?140 sows miscarried as many as 800 piglets.
Bringing you your farm report.
In the U.S., 10 healthy piglets per litter: http://www.agriculture.com/markets/anal ... 14-ar17710-
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Re: Pig Trigonometry
My first thought when I read this was "Where did he find that?"
My second thought was "This just proves they don't need math. They can call in an expert."
BTW, that took place about 10 miles from were Jame Herriott was in practice (and 30 miles from where I was born). I wonder what he would have thought and whether he actually ever went there.
My second thought was "This just proves they don't need math. They can call in an expert."
BTW, that took place about 10 miles from were Jame Herriott was in practice (and 30 miles from where I was born). I wonder what he would have thought and whether he actually ever went there.
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Re: Pig Trigonometry
One of the general news agglomerators that I regularly check: digg.comDrStraw wrote:My first thought when I read this was "Where did he find that?"
I also follow scientific, educational, and political news agglomerator sites...in my spare time.
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I would assume that a fetal pig is a fraction of a piglet.Aidoneus wrote:Bill Spight wrote:From the link:
Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?140 sows miscarried as many as 800 piglets.
Bringing you your farm report.
The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins
Visualize whirled peas.
Everything with love. Stay safe.
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins
Visualize whirled peas.
Everything with love. Stay safe.
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Re: Pig Trigonometry
Bill Spight wrote:Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?
Bringing you your farm report.
In the U.S., 10 healthy piglets per litter: http://www.agriculture.com/markets/anal ... 14-ar17710[/quote]I would assume that a fetal pig is a fraction of a piglet.
[/quote]I assumed that you mistyped and meant fetal piglets per pig...but it's all just bits and bytes to me.
Now that I'm out of class, I see that my sale copy of Train Like a Pro, vol. 1, is on its way!
Of course, when (not if!) I get really, really frustrated, I may come here begging for help.
