Loving how this forum has taken a philosophical turn

[Captain_Nick]

'What is the meaning of life' and 'what is success in life' were both great reads.

I have a conundrum for the more mathematically minded. At uni we covered exponentials and trig functions a couple of weeks ago and one thing led to another and I wound up deriving Euler's Identity via the Taylor series of the sine and cosine functions.

For those unfamiliar with Euler's Identity, here it is written where uni students go to do their most profound thinking.

It is the most beautiful mathematical expression I have ever seen.

The two most important numbers - one and zero
The three basic mathematical operations - addition, multiplication and exponentiation
The three most fundamental mathematical constants - i, e and pi

It's like all of mathematics is condensed into that one statement! I don't know if there is a god or not, but I'm convinced that if there is, he is a mathematician.

So my conundrum is simple really - what on earth does Euler's Identity mean??? Or, maybe, what does it mean to you?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

There is very little I love more than public toilet graffiti. I want this graffiti with all my heart.

 

[Captain_Nick]

Finally someone who understands the joys of graffiti.

I have waged war against the cleaners who remove my contributions every day. Cleaners are not very nice people.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

If you tag your Euler in the female toilets at Flinder's street I will immortalize it on my blog.

Keep at it, there are dozens of silent admirers for every bit of wall wit in stalls!

 

[scotpens]

. . . what on earth does Euler's Identity mean??? Or, maybe, what does it mean to you?

Sorry, but it's all Turkish to me. I never got any higher in math than a year of algebra.

 

[RoJoHen]

As someone who works in a bar, I absolutely hate it when people write on the bathroom walls. I am the one who has to clean it up.

 

[RandyS]

As someone who works in a bar, I absolutely hate it when people write on the bathroom walls. I am the one who has to clean it up.

Yeah, but don't you occasionally get to read interesting stuff while you're doing it??

 

[Captain_Nick]

You could not clean it up, and keep the bathrooms interesting for your customers

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I still remember some of the near treatises I read on the walls of the bathroom of the bookstore I worked in years ago. Treatises, haikus and confessions.

Don't clean it, just paint over anything super offensive bits and let the interesting stuff build up. Soon your bar will develop a great reputation (as my bookstore did) for what you could read on the walls.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Euler's identity is mind-boggling. When you see the mathematical proof (as a special case of Euler's formula, which in itself is pretty sweet), it's quite straightforward. Yet, it's simplicity and reach is staggering. As someone said "I don't know what it means; but we proved it, so it must be true".

Personally, I consider it indeed a thing of beauty (I wouldn't say "the most beautiful thing ever", but I understand the argument for mathematical elegance). Yet, I cannot be really amazed at it, because I cannot shake the feeling that the true meaning of it still escapes me. So it's 50% awe and 50% frustration for me.

What I find extremely sad are the comment under it ("Grow up. "hat industry will pay you for this? It approaches 0. No one gives a shit in industry.")

In my high school restroom there was plenty of writing (mostly about penis sizes or how someone's mother was working the oldest job in the world), but one was so out of place, so bizarre that we always wondered about it.

Quoting from memory (translated from Italian): "I have started it; now it's your turn to hand down this sacred Art to posterity. Lone Wolf never surrenders. Only death can stop me; I don't even give a shit about exile."

I spent countless pissing instances wondering if it was a code for something.

 

[RoJoHen]

You could not clean it up, and keep the bathrooms interesting for your customers

Well, most of the stuff is incredibly inappropriate.

 

[RandyS]

You could not clean it up, and keep the bathrooms interesting for your customers

Well, most of the stuff is incredibly inappropriate.

Oh. I take it you're referring to things like "for a good time, call Wanda", and the like?

 

[RoJoHen]

Usually it's just drawings of penises.

Actually, the last thing we had above the urinal made me chuckle.

In permanent marker is simply said, "BOOBIES."
Directly below it, someone carved out, "Hell yeah!"

 

[Gepard]

I think my favorite piece of bathroom graffiti was from a stall at a state park, where someone had attempted to (hastily) proclaim their love for fucking. However, as they started the sentence too close to the adjoining wall, they had to cram the words to fit them in, and then ran out of space anyway. Thus, this person proudly proclaimed – and appeared to have signed:

"I LOVE TOFU

-CK"

 

[scotpens]

I still remember some of the near treatises I read on the walls of the bathroom of the bookstore I worked in years ago. Treatises, haikus and confessions.

Don't clean it, just paint over anything super offensive bits and let the interesting stuff build up. Soon your bar will develop a great reputation (as my bookstore did) for what you could read on the walls.

A local hot dog joint called the Wiener Factory actually encouraged customers to write graffiti on the walls. Some of it was very funny and clever stuff.

Unfortunately, the place closed in 2007.