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OMG FIRST. Also, this pic is absolutely awesome.
No one gives a s**t
He does, obviously.
First!
Gandalf rules…
^First reply fail
Dear whoever made this:
Thanks for my first real belly laugh of the day.
Love, Julie
Believe it or not, I know the guy, so I’ll pass it on!
This is so FTW!!! it blows all other’s away! XDDD
Fly, you fools!
run you fools!
No, it is “Fly you fools.”
‘Flee, you fools’
Run would’ve made sense IF Gandalf said that. Fly doesn’t, cuz as far as I know, it is not quite… usefull to fly trough a dark cave…
Look up “fight or flight”
He says fly.
I’m surprised this wasn’t done on xkcd. It’s right up his alley.
true dat
maybe this was an original sketch, he just didn’t think to put it up on the site
not his style–Gandalf isn’t a stick figure
If you use that answer, neither will you.
ah, but it being sneaky, it expands all the way around infinity, never touching the x-coordinate of his staff, and continues without harm
haha i was thinking that too, it just snuck out from the bottom
You get that result by putting “y=some number/x” into a graphing calculator. If x is zero, you get an error, because you can’t divide by zero, and zero is where the x-axis is. Therefore, the x axis is never touched, even though it gets so darn close.
but you also have to think, 0 in this case is the intercept of X/Y, which in this case means that X has a certain intercept amount while Y technically in this case with Gandalf’s staff being located on the X-axis and never crossing the Y-axis means that Y=0 whereas X=where ever the staff crosses along with the X intercept along that slashed line which is kinda weird seeing as to how the staff is full whereas the rest of the line is slashed… but, still cool…
It’s a vertical asymptote. The just as the function will never touch the x axis, it will also never PASS though x = whatever value the slashed line equals.
Why do people always say first? even if they are like 4th?? What does it even matter.
Funny Pic Tho
I can’t answer the first part of that, except perhaps their lives have so little validation that they need this (useless) achievement.
The second part, I have some idea. I will post a comment (an actual comment, making no mention of being first) to a post, with NO OTHER comments posted. Come back the next day, there’s 1, 2, even 5 comments posted before mine. Moderation queues suck.
Do you really think people who say first actually care about being first, seeing it as an achievement? They enjoy peoples reactions. It’s trolling at its simplest.
i disagree trolling is less anoying
because they are little kids and little kids do annoying things like that. I would not be surprised to find out that 90% of “firsters” are in 7th grade or below.
First!
It’s trolling, people. The people who analyze it are worse than the trolls.
Is Balrog a negative value because he has such a negative personality?
what is written underneath?
[i dont get it even though i've seen lotr twice =/]
It’s a math joke, too. The graph has an asymptote, which is pretty much line that the graph approaches, but doesn’t actually reach. So, the graph cannot pass the asymptote, which is represented by Gandalf’s staff.
I’m definitely NOT a math whiz, so, if that wasn’t very clear, I’m sorry, maybe someone else can explain it better.
Also, what is written underneath looks like
“y=x^balrog
Domain=(illegible, I think it’s Mines, but I really have no idea) [Walls of Moria, Bridge of Khazad Dun]
Range=All Real #s when x=/=Gandalf”
I think it’s
Domain = Moria [Walls of Moria, Bridge of Khazad Dun]
Being the Walls of Moria and the Bridge of Khazad Dun its extremes.
but but but…
what, the paragraph is the balrog? i mean… the balrog fell down and not went up…
and what’s with the “y=x^balrog”? that’s a Polynomial, and polynomials don’t have an asymptote…
paragraph=graph
If balrog is equal to a negative number then it will make an asymptote. But still that graph would only be made from “y=-x^balrog”. This is beyond sad.. XD picking out math problems in the funniest picture I’ve seen all day…
no, it’s x raised to the balrog. that’s what that “^” means. “x^balrog” is a single term, not two separate terms.
On the contrary, after Gandalf and the Balrog fought in the depths of Moria, they fled towards a high mountain peak, did they not?
They do if they have a negative exponent. Also, this is a monomial, not a polynomial. Same principle, though.
im suprised no one pointed this out. that equation does not produce that graph. (i’m going to assume blarg is a constant).
a more plausable equation for this is
1/(x+blarg)
although we can’t be certian since the axis are not labeled. if my equation is correct, it means that blarg<0.
Actually, it would be 1/(balrog-x). And it is quite obvious from the graph (unless they rotate it..?) that balrog is positive.
@Psilence: I think it was Halls of Moria…
True dat
note to generals,
tan graph can flank enemies without actually going around them…
Hey, Gandalf. Nice work on those horizontal and diagonal asymptotes.
pffft, more like
y = (x-balrog)^-1
Um . . . It says in the picture that it’s Merlin . . . but friggin’ awesome!
Where exactly did you see a mention of Merlin? Seriously, I want to know.
So.. It really doesn’t mention Merlin at all… But yes it is friggin’ awesome! =P
Asymptote The Gray?
The correct equation is actually y = 1/(x – Gandalf), asumming Gandalf is a constant. This is because the range is clearly labeled as all real numbers where x != Gandalf, which means the asymptote occurs when x = Gandalf.
I am a math major at UCLA if anyone was wondering haha. And now I have to go study for my diff equations midterm which is in 2.5 hours =\
Wow, ok, I messed up. It is actually y = 1/(Gandalf – x), not the other way around. 5 points to whoever knows why!
Dude make it “y = (Gandalf – x) ^ balrog” where balrog is a negative value… Hell I just want balrog in there XD
I know why! If it were y=1/(x-Gandalf) the y values would be negative to the left of the asymptote and positive to the right of the asymptote, and the y values are positive to the right and negative to the left in the graph. Yay for math nerds!
Hum really ? That’s what UCLA math majors do ? Which year ?
I’m french and i did that kind of stuff (diff equations) in the year before my final year of high school (or maybe final year, not sure anymore, it was 3 years ago)
Judging from this graph, I can conclude that balrog is negative, creating a reciprocal of x which results in an asymptote. However, x must also be negative for the graph to be to the top-left and lower-right.
So miscalculation?
WHAT. I DREW THAT LIKE A YEAR AGO. I put it on Facebook and completely forgot about it! I never thought I would see it again…
And no, the equation is not right. If I had paid attention in math class this wouldn’t exist. So yeah.
Holy s**t, this is posted on a giant poster in my classroom o.o
actually, math doesn’t take s**t from gandalf
actually, math doesn’t take s**t from gandalf. to me it looks like a big fail on gandalf’s side
Gandalf: Divides by zero
Theoretically, if Gandalf could divide by zero, would that make this equation correct?
The equation is y = 1 / (Gandalf – 1), so when x is Gandalf, y is 1 divided by 0. Gandalf breaks continuity because he divides by zero. Over analyzing magic math FTW!
i award this picture, 4000 internets.
This is the absolute greatest nerdy thing I’ve seen in AGES!
TROLLING
nerds thinking they r cool
says the guy named mike hawk
Or was that a note from the teacher?
Its nice that everyone asumes Balrog being a constant. But are Balrogs real? Are Balrogs constant? I do not think so, so it might as well be a (possibly complex) function itself!