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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot)
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 11:05:49 EDT
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About horses having an infinite number of legs: I found that proof and the one
I cite below in a *marvellous* book entitled _Mathematics_Made_Difficult_
(it's full of really awful puns, and it looks like a serious hardcover book,
and no I don't know the author it was one of those books that the high school
librarian must have purchased by mistake and we NEVER could find it again and
anyway):

Alexander the Great had an infinite number of arms.

Proof:  Alexander the Great was once told by  that

	"Forewarned is fore-armed."

Since four is a very odd number of arms for a man to have, and four is also
an even number, and the only number that is both odd and even is infinity,
therefore it follows that Alexander the Great had an infinite number of arms.

And another along this line:

Alexander the Great had an infinite number of arms, and he rode a black horse
with an infinite number of legs.

Outline of proof:  We have already proved that Alexander the Great had an
infinite number of arms, and someone in a previous posting proved that all
horses have an infinite number of legs.  It merely is necessary to try to 
remember how to do the inductive proof that all horses are black (which I
also forget--anybody remember?).

"food: No such file or directory",
L S Chabot

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