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A Chinese circus performer is leaving the tent after a very successful performance in America when suddenly he decides to defect. He rides his bicycle for eight miles before laying down to go to sleep. The police do not find him for quite a while. When they finally do find him, three weeks later, he is still asleep and has not woken up since, yet he is neither dead nor unconscious.

Explain.
 
He's some kind of trained animal that hibernates. Perhaps a bear. Bears have been known to be trained to ride a bike.
 
Maruno said:
He's some kind of trained animal that hibernates. Perhaps a bear. Bears have been known to be trained to ride a bike.
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Indeed they have been trained to ride bicycles.

Although bears don't hibernate. They just enter a deep sleep that lasts for ... weeks.

Points to Maruno in a moment here...
 
{[(x + 1)! / (x - 1)!] / x}^2 / {1 / [(x + 2)! / (x + 3)!]}

Simplify. Use long polynomial division and state the remainder as a fraction.

This one is really easy. I'm bad at coming up with hard problems.
 
{[(x + 1)! / (x - 1)!] / x} is the same as [(x + 1)! / x(x - 1)!] is the same as [(x + 1)! / x!] is the same as [x+1]. Similarly, the exponential reduces to {2 / [x + 3]}.

So we get [x + 1] ^ {2 / [x + 3]}. Any more needed? I think that's as simple as I can get it.
 
Any more needed? I think that's as simple as I can get it.
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umm hello... sorry bout this, but entirely numero-illiterate here. :dur
Also, that Chinese Circus Performer just may be in an "altered state of consciousness" which is sorta how I am after reading this... (eg how can a BEAR think about defecting?)
ie..there's no chicken & there's no road therefore the chicken did not cross it...
*hears the sound of "one hand clapping"
can I die now?
 
Necromancer said:
umm hello... sorry bout this, but entirely numero-illiterate here. :dur
Also, that Chinese Circus Performer just may be in an "altered state of consciousness" which is sorta how I am after reading this... (eg how can a BEAR think about defecting?)
ie..there's no chicken & there's no road therefore the chicken did not cross it...
*hears the sound of "one hand clapping"
can I die now?
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how can a BEAR think about defecting?
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Just because the bear is not consciously aware of the existence of the government does not mean he cannot decide to leave. Dogs run away from abusive owners. Presumably, by some decision of their own. Therefore I wouldn't put it past a bear to do the same.
Similarly, the exponential reduces to {2 / [x + 3]}.
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Actually, it does not, because the exponent is just 2. The entire first section, which you correctly simplified to x + 1, is then squared, and then divided by the second section, which you correctly simplified to x + 3. So try that.
 
de·fect (dē'fĕkt', dĭ-fĕkt')
intr.v., -fect·ed, -fect·ing, -fects. (dĭ-fĕkt')

1. To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another: a Soviet citizen who defected to Israel.

2. To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group: defected from the party over the issue of free trade.
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To defect seems to imply a conscious decision to join another group or disconnect your affiliations with your current group. Whereas running away would seem to imply a instinctive decision. Possibly directionless. On another note, are there Chinese bears?
 
2. To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group: defected from the party over the issue of free trade.
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"Often" but not always. "Abandon" simply means "quit and go away" which is exactly what the bear did. He is fully capable of that level of intelligence.
are there Chinese bears?
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Yes.
 
Digital Jedi said:
To defect seems to imply a conscious decision to join another group or disconnect your affiliations with your current group. Whereas running away would seem to imply a instinctive decision. Possibly directionless. On another note, are there Chinese bears?
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That's what I thought too, but nvm.
I guess I am just "smarter than the average bear"

I liked Digital Jedi's response to my previous post.
Somebody else understands the concepts of Zen on a Yugioh Forum. <*woot*>

Wow, after being on a forum with absolutely NO intelligence whatsoever, this comes as a mentally stimulating shock.
 
Jason_C said:
Actually, it does not, because the exponent is just 2. The entire first section, which you correctly simplified to x + 1, is then squared, and then divided by the second section, which you correctly simplified to x + 3. So try that.
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Then there's a problem with your brackets. There's a nice rule:

B - brackets
O - Of (powers of)
D - Division
M - Multiplication
A - Addition
S - Subtraction

{[(x + 1)! / (x - 1)!] / x}^2 / {1 / [(x + 2)! / (x + 3)!]

Since there were no brackets around the underlined part of the equation, we can only then assume that the 2 / {1 / [(x + 2)! / (x + 3)!] is all a part of the same exponential. There are no spaces in mathematics, so we use brackets instead to section off... sections.

(Also, you used a { in the middle of the equation and a ] to presumably close it. That's bad form.)


Short answer: I'm right.
 
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