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Offline Aidoneus
 Post subject: Pig Trigonometry
Post #1 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:40 am 
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I'll have to show this to my trig students today!

A pig farmer, a ballooning company, and a mathematician walk into a courtroom: http://modernfarmer.com/2014/10/balloon ... etry-read/

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Offline Bill Spight
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #2 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 10:28 am 
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From the link:

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140 sows miscarried as many as 800 piglets.


Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?

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Offline Aidoneus
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #3 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:10 am 
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Bill Spight wrote:
From the link:

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140 sows miscarried as many as 800 piglets.


Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?



Bringing you your farm report. :D In the U.S., 10 healthy piglets per litter: http://www.agriculture.com/markets/anal ... 14-ar17710
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Offline DrStraw
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #4 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:22 am 
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My first thought when I read this was "Where did he find that?"

My second thought was "This just proves they don't need math. They can call in an expert."


BTW, that took place about 10 miles from were Jame Herriott was in practice (and 30 miles from where I was born). I wonder what he would have thought and whether he actually ever went there.

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Offline Aidoneus
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #5 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:28 am 
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DrStraw wrote:
My first thought when I read this was "Where did he find that?"


One of the general news agglomerators that I regularly check: digg.com

I also follow scientific, educational, and political news agglomerator sites...in my spare time. :roll:
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Offline Bill Spight
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #6 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:30 am 
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Aidoneus wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
From the link:

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140 sows miscarried as many as 800 piglets.


Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?



Bringing you your farm report. :D In the U.S., 10 healthy piglets per litter: http://www.agriculture.com/markets/anal ... 14-ar17710


I would assume that a fetal pig is a fraction of a piglet. :)

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Offline gowan
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #7 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:57 am 
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Isn't there a risk of trigonometry if you eat undercooked pork?

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Offline Aidoneus
 Post subject: Re: Pig Trigonometry
Post #8 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:01 pm 
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Bill Spight wrote:
Hmmm. How many piglets per fetal pig?



Bringing you your farm report. :D In the U.S., 10 healthy piglets per litter: http://www.agriculture.com/markets/anal ... 14-ar17710[/quote]

I would assume that a fetal pig is a fraction of a piglet. :)[/quote]

I assumed that you mistyped and meant fetal piglets per pig...but it's all just bits and bytes to me.

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