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Er, Hodge. Try the following link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_integrals_of_rational_functions<O:p</O:p

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but the joke is even less funny if you have to explain it.<O:p</O:p
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This thread is another example of things that get less funny when you have to explain it. I could go on about the ball having finite length so the closest it can be to the goal line without creating a safety is the back point of the ball touching the goal. However, the distance to the first down is measured from the front of the ball so you are actually the distance of the ball away from the goal. So when then defense finally commits a penalty you are at the 5+ball yard line which is past the 5 yard line but why bother.<O:p</O:p

The bottom line is this- when <ST1:p<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName>Ohio </st1:PlaceName><st1:PlaceType>State</st1:PlaceType></ST1:p was on the goal line last weekend or <st1:State><ST1:plTennessee</ST1:p</st1:State> had a safety when they tried to run out of the end zone did you think of this thread? Did you smile? If so than my work here is done.<O:p</O:p

Also, don't worry about my self esteem. Earlier in the thread somebody accused me of being a self styled intellectual. This isn't quite true. I have several heroes that help shape my life. Two people that come to mind right away are Ayn Rand and Richard Feynman. So I swear by my life and love of it that I don't care what other people think.<O:p</O:p

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smithlabs said:
The bottom line is this- when <ST1:p<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName>Ohio </st1:PlaceName><st1:PlaceType>State</st1:PlaceType></ST1:p was on the goal line last weekend or <st1:State><ST1:plTennessee</ST1:p</st1:State> had a safety when they tried to run out of the end zone did you think of this thread? Did you smile? If so than my work here is done.<O:p</O:p
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Turns out I did think of you and this thread this weekend. It was probably the most impressive crap I've taken since college. Piled it right out of the water... It was a shame to have to flush it.
 
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This thread is another example of things that get less funny when you have to explain it. I could go on about the ball having finite length so the closest it can be to the goal line without creating a safety is the back point of the ball touching the goal. However, the distance to the first down is measured from the front of the ball so you are actually the distance of the ball away from the goal. So when then defense finally commits a penalty you are at the 5+ball yard line which is past the 5 yard line but why bother.
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because the entire point is retarded. thats where i would start.
 
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I really dont understand the hostility towards this post. I actually think it was quite clever - clever enough that there had to be a rule included to circumvent this from happening. The bottom line is that mathematically the goal line is the limit, and no matter how many penalties that are called, even as this approaches infinity the ball will never be behind the goal line for a safety. Conversely, chaos theory and law of large numbers predicate that at some point the defense will make a mistake and the ball will move out to the 5. If it wasnt for the stipulation included in rule cited by lighting rod, this would indeed be the rational thing to do when the ball is inside the 5. This is as close to arbitrage in football that I have ever seen. There are rules in all sports to prevent this type of "arbitrage" from happening - goal tending in hoops, the midget rule in baseball, intentional grounding in football, goalie pad regulations in hockey. This is just another example of that.
 
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we all get the premise of the post NYB....its just stupid as a whole. no defense would sit there thinking....this is it...ive got to jump at the right time to tackle them after about the 7th or 8th delay of game in a row. all the chaos theory bull shit in the world cant be applied here.

the defense would catch on and just be ready in case the ball was snapped. it wouldnt work.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
we all get the premise of the post NYB....its just stupid as a whole. no defense would sit there thinking....this is it...ive got to jump at the right time to tackle them after about the 7th or 8th delay of game in a row. all the chaos theory bull shit in the world cant be applied here.

the defense would catch on and just be ready in case the ball was snapped. it wouldnt work.
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Exactly.
 
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all the chaos theory bull shit in the world cant be applied here.
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If you are talking in theory - I dont agree. Maybe on the 33,453 snap, the DL get so tired that he falls over into the neutral zone. Maybe on the 1,243,546 snap, a gust of wind, by the same chaos theory, blows so hard it forces a CB across the line. Maybe on the 22,345,987 snap, the LB feels his retirement coming and just runs accross the line to give up the 5 yards and get his life back....

That of course, is in theory. In practice, if clause to to the rule wasnt in place, it would probably worth at least a try if the ball was close enough to the goal line depending upon your expected values.

Perhaps its just because that I like the abstract, but again, I did find this clever in theory....
 
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in theory....the idiot coach who decided to do this wouldve been fired before the 52nd snap....or non-snap.

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Not as big a fan of the abstract as I, I presume. No prob, its all good.
 
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