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Subject: Of Teakettles... - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 22:32:03 EDT
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uiuccsb!goering    Oct 17 11:05:00 1983

There is a test presented to students to determine whether
they should go on to study Math or Engineering.

The first part of the test requires that a student be put in a
room that has a stove and a table on which rest a teakettle
full of water.  The objective is to boil the water.
The student passes this section if he turns the stove and
puts the teakettle on to boil. 

The second part is more critical.  Here the student is given
a stove, a table, an empty teakettle, and a sink.  Again he
must boil water.  If he fills the teakettle and puts it on
the stove to boil he should go into Engineering.  If, however
he puts it on the table, he has reduced the problem to one
already solved and is more suited to Math.

Def:  Stove--
        That highest pinacle of enlightenment to which all
        Mathematical teakettles aspire.







      Table--
        The compromise with which most Math teakettles must settle.

                                        Steve