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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 222 points 8 months ago

A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.

-D. Cox

legend

[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago
[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

You know deviled eggs, get ready for ...

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 161 points 8 months ago

The best part is that Cox and Zucker didn't give it the name Cox-Zucker machine themselves, because you're not supposed to name things after yourself. A third person, Schwartz, caught the joke and gave it the name.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

How do we know Schwartz wasn’t in on it?

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 33 points 8 months ago

The Schwartz was with them.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 159 points 8 months ago
[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 16 points 8 months ago

English isn't my first language. I don't wanna spoil the joke but someone explain the joke here or in dms. What is a cox ring?

[-] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

It sounds like cock. A cock ring is a ring that a person would put on a penis for sexual simulation, the same as using a dildo.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

I'm fluent in English, and I have a PhD in chemistry, which involved a lot of complicated mathematics. I can tell you with total honesty that despite reading five wiki pages deep, I still don't have a clue.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

"Cox ring" sounds like "cock ring", which is a sex toy.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Oh, THAT half of the joke.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago

Men after my own heart. Mad respect for the dedication to the joke.

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 8 months ago

Fucking legends

[-] terribletortoise@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago
[-] Klear@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

See also

  • Cox ring
[-] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Crap I'll never be able to slide that into a casual conversation.

[-] terribletortoise@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

That would be a highly specific casual conversation!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

Not with that attitude!

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Well you could just lie when someone asks what you do for work and say:

"I'm a mathematician actually. I spend the vast majority of my time working with the Cox-Zucker machine."

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

"You would know"

"Hell yeah I would"

"What"

"What"

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Intersection of elliptic surfaces... giggity.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

It's always neat reading an article where I can pinpoint the exact moment it goes over my head. In this instance, everything before "torsion" makes perfect sense, and everything afterward is witchcraft and I will be testifying against Cox and Zucker at the trial

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I explain it to you, just stand here and look through the hole...

[-] kubica@kbin.social 36 points 8 months ago

So how's the machine? Asking for a friend.

[-] ShadyGrove@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

I've heard it kind of blows.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Thought it was supposed to zuck?

[-] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Can't put it down 😉

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

The absolute madlads

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

OG madlads right there

[-] rezifon@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Five years later? What a half-fast attempt at a joke!

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today 11 points 8 months ago

A match made in heaven.

[-] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 months ago

Well this is the most New Jersey thing I've seen today.

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