Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: e: reatnsl log Message-ID: <3679@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 11:05:49 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3679 Posted: Wed Sep 19 11:05:49 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:17:57 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 34 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 bythat "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 UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752