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An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an
anecdote. After some observations and rough calculations the engineer
realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later, the
physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily, as he now
has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the
mathematician somewhat perplexed as he has observed right away that he
is the subject of an anecdote and deduced quite rapidly the presence
of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this
anecdote as too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone
funny.
walther@math.purdue.edu
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