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10-08-2012, 10:24 PM
Dave Shaffer (Arizona) Offline
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From a few days ago:

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10-09-2012, 03:39 AM
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Not bad at all.

This kind of verbal pun reminds me of this other much more elaborated one I saw decades ago in one of the late Martin Gardner's superb books on recreational mathematics (the Native American [i.e.: Indian] version, that is):

http://komplexify.com/math/jokes/PythagoreanTheoremPun.html

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10-09-2012, 05:49 PM
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Some more math puns.

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10-09-2012, 07:20 PM
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32. Two mathematicians arguing about even numbers were at odds. They're still at sixes and sevens with each other.

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10-09-2012, 07:43 PM
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There is a remarkable alphanumeric equation in which two anagram phrases are equal, both alphabetically and numerically.

ELEVEN + TWO = TWELVE + ONE

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