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