Re: education

Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:
 
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      And this, in turn reminds me of the decades-old "two mathematicians
      and a waitress" joke; see, e. g. (URI split for readability):
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http://web.archive.org/web/20190622112330/
http://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-086.html

 
Lol.  I don't get the joke.  What's up with the joke?  I'm slow.  The
waitress has a hard-science college degree but can't get a job in her
field?  That's not a joke.  I don't get the joke.  Please explain? :)

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The joke is that the second mathematician, who should know better, gave
the waitress the wrong answer to repeat.

Why was it the wrong answer?  Isn't

  (1/3) x^3 + c

the integral of x^2?

The waitress pretends to be dumb when he gives her what will be the
wrong answer to his question.

That's a mean waitress.

Then, when he asks the question, she repeats his incorrect answer
flawlessly, and adds in the correction he should have known himself.
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I.e., the joke is that the mathematicians were not quite as "smart" as
they thouoght they were.

Then ChatGPT was right. :)