Does Python need a '>>>' operator?
Andrew Dalke
dalke at dalkescientific.com
Thu Apr 18 02:15:05 EDT 2002
Gareth McCaughan:
>A friend of mine has a project of classifying all finite
>chromatic mathematical fruit jokes. He knows about
[three omitted for sake of humanity]
>and I think those are all he's found. He conjectures that
>there are no more, but the conjecture appears difficult to
>prove without tiresome case-splitting. Perhaps a computer
>proof is in order.
I did a computer proof. Google helped me find a few that
were at least close
First off, there are plenty of grape variations, starting
with green instead of purple.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/1_6.html
Q: What's purple, commutes, and is worshiped by a limited number
of people?
A: A finitely venerated abelian grape.
Q: What's green, dangerous and commutative?
A: An abelian grape with a machine gun.
(and that one's just plain silly).
Q: What's yellow, linear, normed and complete?
A: A Bananach space.
http://www.math.washington.edu/~plochin/Humor/mathjokes.txt
What's green and homeomorphic to the open unit interval?
The real lime.
What's lavender and commutes?
An abelian semigrape.
http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html
The cherry theorem (a puzzle that reminds some of calculus theorems)
Q: What is a small, red, round thing that has a cherry pit inside?
A: A cherry.
http://ctl.unbc.ca/CMS/dailyjokes.html
Q: What's green and very, very far away?
A: The lime at infinity.
http://www.materialisations.com/humour/humour-math.html
Q: What is yellow and covered in blue paint?
A: The pumping lemon.
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~scu/Humour/Science/maths.html
Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a banana?
A: Elephant banana sine theta in a direction mutually perpendicular
to the two as determined by the right hand rule.
(eh, but there's no color in that last one)
Excuse me while I now go crazy from reading too many of these pages.
Andrew
dalke at dalkescientific.com
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