On May 23, 5:30 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > > Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this > >>looks funny : > > >>>>> a=2 > >>>>> b=6 > >>>>> a and b > >>6 > >>>>> a & b > >>2 > >>>>> a or b > >>2 > >>>>> a | b > >>6 > > > That IS funny. Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool > > us. One of my favorite math jokes is like that. A teacher asked a > > student to reduce the following fraction: > > 16 > > ---- > > 64 > > > He says "all I have to do is cancel out the sixes, so the answer is > > 1/4". > > One of my favourite variations on this is by Abbott and Costello, where > Costello proves that 13*7 = 28 in three different ways. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I
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