i dont get it :( On 7/7/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him > the largest possible pen out of a fixed amount of fencing. > > Without giving it a second thought, the engineer builds the farmer a > large, circular pen. > > After a moment's consideration, the physicist builds a long straight > piece of fence, and says, "We can consider the length of the fence to be > infinite," pointing out that fencing off half the globe would be a more > efficient solution. > > The mathematician laughs gently at both of them, builds a tiny pen > around himself, and says "I declare myself to be on the outside." > > >
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