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Futurama - New Math Theorem

by Makushr1 » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:40 am
Not sure if anyone watches Futurama, but the latest episode, one of the creators (who has a PhD in math) created a new theorem for the show. The problem was, when 2 people switch minds and bodies, they cannot switch directly back. So is it possible for them to use more people to get their minds back into their own bodies. When I saw that, I said outloud "my god, this is a question I'd see on the GMAT."


You can watch just that clip here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5iyO4o6UYY


You can read about it here:
https://gizmodo.com/5618502/futurama-wri ... eedfetcher

https://theinfosphere.org/The_Prisoner_of_Benda

Thought some of you would enjoy.
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:25 pm
i Dont understand how is related to gmat
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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:42 am
Pretty neat, Makushr1 - thanks for sharing!

In that same vein, is anyone reading that Steig Larsson "Millennium" trilogy? In the second book, "The Girl Who Played With Fire", each act leads with a mathematical property, and one of them prominently featured is the ever-important GMAT concept the "Difference of Squares" rule: x^2 - y^2 = (x+y)(x-y)

I was reading that on a beach last week and realized that you just can't escape the GMAT!
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