A mathematician and a DnD nerd meet up in a bar, and start talking. The nerd, naturally, begins to talk about his hobby, and the Mathematician, with an infinitesimally bit of knowledge of the forgotten realms, asks the nerd what character he plays.

"I play an illogical halfling", says the nerd.

Upon hearing that, the mathematician falls on the floor, crippled with laughter and yelling amongst his laughs "What a paradox ! Ahahah ! What a paradox"

So the nerd asks him what is paradoxical in his character, so the mathematician answers -

"Your halfling is irrational !"

((10 bucks to whoever understands this one))

Guess i don't get 10 bucks then...

Gimme mah monah! :lol:

:) Rational. Irrational. Yeah, baby.

... well, as a number? ( irrational number, which is not natural, errm, like 'pi', or 'e'? )

doh, and im a mathematicion =S

Hehe.

ha ha! Thats funny.

irrational numbers are infinite and don't have a repeating pattern so they cant be expressed as a faction unlike a rational number. Typical example is Pi (3.14..........inf)

Now a halfling is making fun of a sequence like this:

1/2 ... 1/4 ... 1/8 ... 1/16 .... inf.

however these numbers are not irrational, it follows a pattern of halving each time into a finite number.

the sequence can not reach 0 but tends towards zero. Hence all halfling are struggling to be number 1 since one slip and they will be zero.

halfling also describes anything divided by 2. x/2 = rational number. this is a logical sequence

An Illogical halfling however would not fit this nice pattern, and so could only be irrational. Hence the paradox of an "illogical halfling".

bloody funny.

lolz, hehehe i bet none tohught of it like that, (well, i wouldnt bring my subject of freedom and rest as part of my studies in the university :P)

I claim ownership and authorship of this joke.

I claim my ten bucks.

i claim me clams with soup!

can i have 10 bucks anyway?