Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uf-csg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!uf-csv!uf-csg!rik From: rik@uf-csg.UUCP (Rik Faith [guest]) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: re: Canadians - (nf) Message-ID: <293@uf-csg.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 18:42:44 EST Article-I.D.: uf-csg.293 Posted: Sun Dec 9 18:42:44 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:46:13 EST References: <1821@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Univ of Fla, Computer and Information Science Lines: 23 <> >From inmet!porges: >>From llmiller@watrose: >> >>> Oh come on! >>> >>> To divide a square into 8 squares you just cut it in half, >>> cut the halves in half, then slice them all horizontally. >> >>You must have written the recipe! Do you recall the definition >>of a "square" from high-school geometry? > > -- not so fast. By horizontally, he means "parallel to the table". >You end up with eight squares, each half as deep as the original four. Wait just a minute. . . A square is defined as existing in only two dimensions. We are NOT discussing cubes. (and no, the height of the ink doesn't count). -- Rik Faith, student at the University of Florida, Gainesville UUCP: ...!akgua!uf-csv!uf-csg!rik CSNET: rik%uf-csg@ufl [Is not life a hundred times to short for us to bore ourselves? -F.N.]