Mr.Subtle failed in mathematics. He always wondered y
mathematics is so boring and y mathematics teachers are so cruel. Mr. Subtle
always suffered from questioning attitude and especially on mathematics. One
day Mr.Subtle’s mathematics teacher Mr.Pasha said : In the equation x+3 = 5 if
3 is moved to the right side of equals it becomes -3 (x= 5-3). Mr.Subtle really
wondered how this magic is happening till the time he got to know from Mr.Pasha
that he is simply adding -3 on both sides of equals to make this magic possible.
Mr.Sublte always had fun teasing mathematics teachers and
Mr.Pasha is his first victim. One fine day Mr.Pasha asks Mr.Subtle’s close
friend that how many zeroes are there in a million.Indians were only taught
about crores and lakhs unlike americans so Mr.Subtle’s friend is really
confused. Mr.Subtle also donno the exact answer but he thought of teasing Mr.Pasha
and so raised his hand.
Mr.Pasha: Hey Mr.Subtle…do you know the answer for this question?
Mr.Subtle: Yes sir…but before answering this I have a
question for you…
Mr.Pasha: What’s that?
Mr.Subtle: In which numeric system? Binary? Decimal? Hexadecimal?
Mr.Pasha: I got your point. Let’s assume decimal system.
Mr.Subtle: Then are you asking about zero’s to the left side
of 1 or right side of 1?
Mr.Pasha: Does that really matter?
Mr.Subtle: Yes…if the zeros are on the left side of 1 we can
put as many zero’s as we want so a million can have infinite number of zeros on
the left side of 1.
Mr.Subtle felt good for saving his from from Mr.Pasha.
Another fine day Mr.Pasha was teaching about complex numbers
and was explaining that i = Squareroot of -1 and i is the core foundation of
complex number system. Mr.Subtle really got confused and asked Mr.Pasha that y he
is only interested in sqrt(-1) and not cuberoot of (-1) or 4th root
of -1 and so on.Now Mr. Pasha is confused.
Then onwards Mr.Pasha got little bit uneasy for all
Mr.Subtles hand raising “I know the answer” questions. From the core of his
heart he felt like he has to take revenge on Mr.Subtle some day.
Finally, that day has come. Mr.Pasha was explaining about
the limits in calculus and how limits becomes the foundation of differential
calculus. Mr.Subtle raises his hand.
Mr.Subtle: if the value of 0/0 is not defined then y u are
trying to make sense of it by introducing limits?
This time Mr.Pasha got a chance to tease Mr.Subtle. He never
wanted to let it go. Though he donno the exact answer for Mr.Subtle’s question
he wanted to answer his question with another question.
Mr Pasha: The answer for your question is here…suppose you
and your girlfriend are separated by a distance of 100 meters and to reach your
girlfriend….. in every one hour you travel a distance of half of the distance needs
to be covered (I mean in first hours you can cover 100/2 50 m and in second
hour 50+50/2 means 75 and in third hours 50+50/2+50/4 means 87.5 mts and so on…).
In how many hours you can reach your girlfriend?
Mr. Subtle then got to know that he can’t reach his
girlfriend by solving Mr. Pasha’s problem and really appreciated why limits
exists and the way Mr. Pasha explained the limits concept. But he really
wondered whether we can apply this limits concepts to zero power zero.
Another fine day Mr.Subtle got a doubt that y Mr.Physics
teacher taught him up to acceleration and what happens if we differentiate acceleration
wrt to time (s is displacement ds/dt is velocity and ds square/dt square is acceleration
and what if we differentiate one more
time I mean what is ds cube/dt cube)
Since Mr.Subtle is more comfortable in teasing Mr.Pasha he
posed the same question to Mr.Pasha. Fortunately Mr.Pasha has a partial answer.
“If we differentiate acceleration u will get a Jerk!!! If you want to
differentiate more and get to know the answers for the same go and join a
school called IIT in India. Mr. Subtle felt bad that Mr.Pasha might be calling
him jerk but he took the latter advice very seriously.
In the first year of engineering Mr.Subtle was introduced to
computers and he was told that computer can answer any damn question in the
world. To his surprise he found it’s mostly true when he typed something on Google
and when he learnt about artificial intelligence.
One day out of curiosity Mr.Subtle asked the professor “Sir
tell me at least one interesting thing which computer brain can’t do and only
human brain can do?” ….professor immediately replied “Computers brain can’t
pose questions like you…especially context sensitive questions”.
Because of ethical hacking addiction Mr. Subtle cultivated a
never give up attitude. His virtual roommate
Mr. VK Reddy once got pissed off with his never give up attitude and thought
let’s tease Mr.Subtle with a Subtle Question. He handed over an indefinite
integral to Mr.Subtle and said if you are a true mathematician solve this
question in 24 hours. Our “never give up” Mr.Subtle sacrificed his sleep, girlfriend fun, chatting, eating, phone calls and even hacking fun to solve this damn indefinite
integral. Mr. Subtle know that Mr VK Reddy is a kind of a guy who knows only one
way of shutting down a computer i.e. switching off the power button on the
switch board. Mr. Subtle wanted to prove
that he is a true mathematician to Mr.VK Reddy. 24 hrs passed on. One day
passed on…One week passed on….Mr.VK Reddy collected all the papers which
Mr.Subte is wasting on daily basis and started earning money by selling them to
waste paper wala…one month passed on…one fine day Mr.VK Reddy decides his
earning on waste paper business is more than enoug and conveys to Mr.Suble that
“Not all indefinite integrals have solutions and in the same way not all life
problems have solutions and never give up attitude should always have limits”…hmm
then hearing about limits Mr.Subtle got to remember Mr.Pasha and got to know y Mr. Pasha gave that last advise. Mr.Subtle found a true
mathematician.
Then onwards Mr.Subtle always tried impressing Mr.VK Reddy by discussing some of his unusual mathematical
findings like the number between two consecutive primes is always divisible by
6 ( 17,19 …18 is divisibe by 6 ..41, 43 …42 is divisibe by 6) no magic numbers exists
in 6 digits (magic number is: sum of factors of a number should be equal to the
number for ex: 6 = 2+3+1 and 18 etc..) but Mr. Subtle never lived upto the
expectations of Mr. VK Reddy.
Mr.Subtle never expected that more surprises are waiting for
him in corporations….Read on……