OT Re: Math-embarrassment results in CS [was: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?]

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/07/2015 15:13, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-07-24, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> You can always pick out the topologist at a conference: he's the one
>>> trying to dunk his coffee cup in his doughnut.
>>
>> Did you hear about the idiot topologist?  He couldn't tell his butt
>> from a hole in the ground, but he *could* tell his butt from two
>> holes in the ground.
>
> Wow.  Now I know _two_ topologist jokes.  The girls are going to be
> impressed!
>

Here comes the third.

Q: How many topologists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It really doesn't matter, since they'd rather knot.

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~mbarrien/jokes/lightblb.txt

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Mark Lawrence