Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!akgua!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!kaufman From: kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (kaufman ) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Offensive to Vectorphobic Pachyderms - (nf) Message-ID: <5844@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 22:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5844 Posted: Fri Feb 24 22:27:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 00:41:28 EST Lines: 15 #N:uiucdcs:9900240:000:407 uiucdcs!kaufman Feb 24 15:17:00 1984 [overheard at University of Illinois] Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a plum? A: A vector with length |elephant| |plum| sin(x) in the direction perpendicular to the plane in which the elephant and the plum lie, where x is the angle between elephant and plum. Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a mountain climber? A: UNDEFINED! A mountain climber is a scalar.