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jackFor sunflowerinrain and the nice librarian in the black dress I can't remember the name of.
An elephant, an engineer, and a mathematician walk into a building and the mathematician says "If two people leave, the building will be empty again," and the engineer scratches himself with his tusks and trumpets loudly.
An elephant, an engineer, and a mathematician walk into a building and the mathematician says "If two people leave, the building will be empty again," and the engineer scratches himself with his tusks and trumpets loudly.
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Date: 2006-02-20 06:30 pm (UTC)I don't know why elephants seem (a) inherently funny and (b) predominate in maths jokes, but it seems so. Maybe the larger the something is, the harder it is to imagine it being, eg, cross-produced[1] like an abstract vector, despite realityness being more important than size really.
[1] Producted? Mutliplied?
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Date: 2006-02-21 12:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-21 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
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