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Re: Is Math Necessary?

By John Derbyshire

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April 25, 2003 5:31 PM

Link not working. Readers demand to know math jokes. Joke 1: Q–Why did

the chicken cross the Moebius strip? A–To get to the same side. Joke 2:

Werner Heisenberg (of Uncertainty Principle fame) is pulled over by a

traffic cop. Cop–”Do you know how fast you were going?” WH–”No, but I

know exactly where I am.”

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