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To: bruin66
First words out of our professor in (honors) calc I at SUNY @ Stonly Brook...

Please take out a piece of paper, and proove that between every 2 rational numbers, there's an irrational number, and between every 2 irrational numbers, there's a rational number.

I still have nightmares about that class, even though I did get a 'B' in the class.

Mark

131 posted on 11/08/2005 2:38:27 PM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: MarkL

Our first homework assignment in non-Euclidean geometry was to prove 2 points determine a line. Oh, and the teacher thought having a textbook made the class too easy, so we had no reference material.

I love impossible homework assignments.


135 posted on 11/08/2005 2:51:28 PM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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