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A spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real ... See also[edit]. Assume a can opener · Fermi problem · Naïve physics · Unobtainium ...
Feb 5, 2011 - If I assume the pencil is a point mass, that model works pretty well. Back to the spherical cow. I don't know the origins of this joke, but this is the ...
My short-hand name for a too-simple model is a "spherical cow" (yes there is even a book with that title [Clemens: ... "First, we assume a spherical cow.
Sep 5, 2010 - Assume the Cow is a Sphere. One of my favourite jokes goes like this: A physicist, an engineer, and a psychologist are called in as consultants ...
Dec 1, 2009 - I've heard multiple variations of this joke, all ending with a physicist positing a spherical animal ("assume a spherical cow|racehorse|etc").
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Aug 15, 2013 - Thus “spherical cow” has become a metaphor for highly (overly!) ... and options pricing generally to assume that asset price movements have a ...
Efficiency could be improved if the cows were more closely packed, with a net allotment of 275 cubic feet per cow. ... He begins: "Assume the cow is a sphere....”.
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The biologist tells the farmer that he should feed the cows certain hormones to make ... The physicist responds, "Now assume a spherical cow.Oct 30, 2010 - As told by Mr. Karl Sinfield in the comments section of a Tom Chivers blog post at the Telegraph: A geneticist, a physiologist and a physicist ...