Thursday, December 4, 2008

Engineer vs mathematician

An engineer and a mathematician are sitting in a lounge. Suddenly, the coffee machine catches on fire. The mathematician grabs a bucket and leaps towards the sink, fills the bucket with water and puts out the fire. The second day, the same two sit in the same lounge. Again, the coffee machine catches on fire. This time, the engineer stands up, gets a bucket, hands the bucket to the mathematician, thus reducing the problem to a previously solved one.

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