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Joke o'the Day:
The Royal Chain Mail Factory had received a large order for battle uniforms. Each uniform consisted of a chain mail toga and a short pair of chain mail trousers. However, it was difficult to determine exactly how long to make the trousers: too short and a soldier could be exposed, too long and the uniform would be excessively heavy.
So they called in a mathematician. He had a uniform made and tested. The hem on the trousers proved to be too short, so he increased it a little bit, then a little more, and then a little bit more, and so on until finally he was able to derive an exact trouser-length depending on the leg-length of the soldier.
The chief tailor was curious. "How did you determine this ratio?" he asked.
"Easy," replied the mathematician. "I just used the Wire-trousers Hem Test of Uniform Convergence!"
A Lame One:
Why is it that the more accuracy you demand from an interpolation function, the more expensive it is to compute? That’s the Law of Spline and Demand!
Poetry Corner:
A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius Band was divine.
Said he, “If you glue
The edges of two,
You get a weird bottle like mine.”
How They Do It:
Algebraists do it in groups.
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