From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ecn-pa:scott
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Favorite quotes
Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.484
Posted: Mon Sep 27 09:26:35 1982
Received: Thu Sep 30 11:25:44 1982

"We have four pieces of information and a cubic polynomial
has four coefficients.  Therefore, by the universal law of
fairness, there is only one cubic polynomial that fits our
information.  Special cases which disobey this law are ex-
cluded."

	from a lecture in a numerical analysis course.

	Scott Deerwester
	Purdue University