The following joke/riddle is a mathematician's way of disgusting potential future mathematicians, to see what the impact will be...
N grad students were sitting in a train compartment. They were discussing deep intellectual subjects (free food, math, free food, professors, politics, and the best places for free food), all the while eyeing a platter previously full of (free) meatballs, now containing six meatballs. Each grad student had a fork and a knife, and was very aware of the fact that taking a meatball would be impolite, however much he/she wanted to. At that moment the train went into a tunnel and everything went dark for a couple of seconds. There was a loud yelp, and the light came back, revealing a platter containing a cut-off hand with a fork stuck in it. How many grad students were there?
The answer might be at answersdiscarded.blogspot.com. Answer number 5.
N grad students were sitting in a train compartment. They were discussing deep intellectual subjects (free food, math, free food, professors, politics, and the best places for free food), all the while eyeing a platter previously full of (free) meatballs, now containing six meatballs. Each grad student had a fork and a knife, and was very aware of the fact that taking a meatball would be impolite, however much he/she wanted to. At that moment the train went into a tunnel and everything went dark for a couple of seconds. There was a loud yelp, and the light came back, revealing a platter containing a cut-off hand with a fork stuck in it. How many grad students were there?
The answer might be at answersdiscarded.blogspot.com. Answer number 5.
I'm completely baffled at how to start on this, but - s-seven, I guess, because one of the students got his hand cut off and didn't get a meatball? No clue.
ReplyDeleteThe site you're giving (http://discardedlogic.blogspot.com/) doesn't have any posts in it, and I'm not sure it's yours. Are you sure that's the right URL? It's different from the 'answersdiscarded' you posted on before.
ReplyDeleteYeah... oops. No that's not the right answer. Think again.
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