Difference between revisions of "Fun stuff"

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A physicist, a mathematician and an engineer stay in a hotel.
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From ''Littlewood's Miscellany'':
  
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The engineer is awakened by a smell and gets up to check it. He finds a fire in the hallway, sees a nearby fire extinguisher and after extinguishing it, goes back to bed.
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Schoolmaster: "Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem." Pupil: "But, Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep." (I asked Prof. Wittgenstein was this not a profound philosophical joke, and he said it was.)
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Later that night, the physicist gets up, again because of the smell of fire. He quickly gets up and sees the fire in the hallway. After calculating air pressure, flame temperature and humidity as well as distance to the fire and projected trajectory, he extinguishes the fire with the least amount of fluid.
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The punchline has been left as an exercise for the reader.
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Latest revision as of 22:16, 19 February 2016

From Littlewood's Miscellany:

Schoolmaster: "Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem." Pupil: "But, Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep." (I asked Prof. Wittgenstein was this not a profound philosophical joke, and he said it was.)

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