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August 06, 2005
Mathematicians are strange...
[Found over at Skipjack.info...]
A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him the largest possible pen out of a fixed amount of fencing.
Without giving it a second thought, the engineer builds the farmer a large, circular pen.
After a moment’s consideration, the physicist builds a long straight piece of fence, and says, “We can consider the length of the fence to be infinite,” pointing out that fencing off half the globe would be a more efficient solution.
The mathematician laughs gently at both of them, builds a tiny pen around himself, and says “I declare myself to be on the outside.”
Posted by Peskie at August 6, 2005 12:00 PM
Comments
Isn't he supposed to finish with QED?
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at August 9, 2005 01:13 PM
