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Subject: Offensive to Vectorphobic Pachyderms - (nf)
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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.