This is a living article. I’ll make regular updates to this as Halloween draws near and then put it away once we pass only to resurrect it in the following year.
Let’s do Halloween math. Filled with jokes, puns, and other Halloween-themed math. This post will likely be heavily tied back to tweets which I will embed here.
Jokes(?)
Getting into the #Halloween mood.
Q: Why was the math teacher afraid of the witch?
A: Because the witch wanted to hexadecimal.
— M Shah (@shahlock) October 9, 2021
Q: What's a ghosts favorite subject?
A: BOOlean logic#mtbos #halloween
— M Shah (@shahlock) October 9, 2021
A Boonoulli event is a BOOlean event (seeing a ghost in a cliché scary setting). A collection of Boonoulli events is distributed Boonomially. The Boonomial distribution converges to the Paranormal distribution as the number of scary settings tends to infinity#mtbos #halloween
— M Shah (@shahlock) October 9, 2021
But a Twitter user sent me this before I got out the paranormal distribution one
Q: How do we explain and project ghost sightings?
A: Using the Paranormal Distribution. #mtbos #Halloween
— Alpha K (@EphraimAlpha) October 9, 2021