and becomes or and or becomes and

[rusi]

On May 23, 5:30 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
> > Stef Mientki <stef.mien... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this
> >>looks funny :
>
> >>>>> a=2
> >>>>> b=6
> >>>>> a and b
> >>6
> >>>>> a & b
> >>2
> >>>>> a or b
> >>2
> >>>>> a | b
> >>6
>
> > That IS funny.  Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool
> > us. One of my favorite math jokes is like that.  A teacher asked a
> > student to reduce the following fraction:
> >   16
> >  ----
> >   64
>
> > He says "all I have to do is cancel out the sixes, so the answer is
> > 1/4".
>
> One of my favourite variations on this is by Abbott and Costello, where
> Costello proves that 13*7 = 28 in three different ways.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I

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