Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Mathematical Joke Message-ID: <155@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 12:10:20 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.155 Posted: Thu Mar 21 12:10:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Mar-85 00:33:44 EST References: <434@lll-crg.ARPA> <273@tekred.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 13 There was this mathematician who went into the business of building machines for pumping water out of the ground. His machines were in really great demand, and people were worried that they wouldn't be able to obtain them, so he decided to prove a theory that stated that any person could send in an application to buy one. Of course, he called it The Well Ordering Theorem ----- Answer: Algebra. Question: What kind of underwear do mermaids wear? Wayne