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From: glassner@unc.UUCP (Andrew S. Glassner)
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Subject: professions
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:52:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 11:52:24 1984
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< "The complex plane?  You mean like a 747 ?" >

One evening a chemist was sleeping in a hotel room, adjoining
the building where a conference was being held.  The wiring
in the room was faulty, and the chemist was awakened in the
middle of the night by a small but growing fire in the middle
of the room.

He looked at the fire for a moment, got up, went to the bathroom,
and opened the medicine chest.  He mixed up various stuff,
went back into the room, and threw the solution onto the fire,
putting it out.  He then went back to sleep.

The next evening a mathematician was in the same room, and he
too was awakened by a small fire in the middle of the room.
The matematician sat up, looked at the fire, stated "There
exists a solution," and went back to sleep.


-Andrew		Andrew Glassner		unc!glassner

"Perturbation will grow hair on your palms"