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Is there a mathematician in the house?
Q: Can you think of a good anagram for "Banach-Tarski" ?
A: It's "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" ...
(explanation here , for the non-mathematical but curious)
For a more graphic (though perhaps not more enlightening) representation of the matter...(click here)
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Great Milo! You done is taught gramma to suck eggs! Now you wanna teach her how to lay one?
I understand the joke behind wofa's so-called pun and I'd lay odds GT does, too. But do you understand how to get the bogo on the spheres?
Wha'd I say, Faldotage? Math is bunk. How long is the coastline of Florida? Look close and you can double it, look closer and it will streeeeeeeeeeach to the moon.
Trickier, though, are mathematical excursions into infinity.
Take one infinity for example; double it, and then multiply it by seven less the number of hookers in Reno and go fish...and your product we still be only one infinity. But not finally. It is also true that you also have an infinite number of infinities. Go figure. 
Last edited by themilum; 12/21/06 04:00 AM.
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Ah, me. Didn't mean to open a can of worms.
"Infinity" is not a number, and cannot always be manipulated as everyday numbers can. Sometimes this leads to conclusions that sound counter-intuitive; common sense learned from numbers does not always apply.
Long and loud and contentious arguments all to often are based on the unhappy fact that the parties are not defining the term the same way.
Onward! Look at the original self-referential wordplay and smile. Next factoid, please.
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