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To: snarks_when_bored

Grothendieck suggested, “All right,take 57.”

I guess this is proof that I'm not a mad genius... I had to re-read this three times to get the joke.

23 posted on 02/19/2005 7:13:04 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)

To: xm177e2

I had to re-read this three times to get the joke.

At least you didn't have to read it, er, 19 times.

28 posted on 02/19/2005 7:20:23 PM PST by snarks_when_bored

To: xm177e2

31 posted on 02/19/2005 7:22:00 PM PST by Earthdweller (US descendant of French Protestants)

To: xm177e2

Me too. It sure "looked prime"!

40 posted on 02/19/2005 7:42:00 PM PST by NonLinear ("If not instantaneous, then extrordinarily fast" - Galileo re. speed of light. circa 1600)

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