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Date: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 12:26 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 16:35 (UTC)I actually don't get the one you quoted but ummm
some of the others are still great!
Wrong alas!
Date: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 20:55 (UTC)Re: Wrong alas!
Date: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 23:47 (UTC)Re: Wrong alas!
Date: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 23:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 01:10 (UTC)A few months later, he decides to take a stroll and see how the animals are doing. Everywhere he looks he finds baby animals. Everyone is doing fine except for one pair of little snakes. "Please, Noah," say the snakes, "we need you to cut down some trees for us."
"No problem," says Noah. He cuts down a few trees and goes home scratching his head. A few weeks later he gets curious and come back to check on the snakes. They now have lots of little snakes and everyone is happy. "What happened?" he asks them.
"We are adders," the snakes explain. "So we need logs to multiply."
I loved this one best. :o)
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Date: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 02:58 (UTC)A Mathematician and an Engineer attend a lecture by a Physicist. The topic concerns Kulza-Klein theories involving physical processes that occur in spaces with dimensions of 9, 12 and even higher. The Mathematician is sitting, clearly enjoying the lecture, while the Engineer is frowning and looking generally confused and puzzled. By the end the Engineer has a terrible headache. At the end, the Mathematician comments about the wonderful lecture. The Engineer says "How do you understand this stuff?"
Mathematician: "I just visualize the process"
Engineer: "How can you POSSIBLY visualize something that occurs in 9-dimensional space?"
Mathematician: "Easy, first visualize it in N-dimensional space, then let N go to 9"
I knew that before from my boyfriend and it's really the way Physicists and Mathematicians think I guess. I can't do that.