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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre mathematics
Message-ID: <315@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 08:26:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 08:26:28 1985
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In article <346@ihdev.UUCP> pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie) writes:
>>
>>Here's a bit of bizarre math stuff which may warp your mind.  Imagine
>>if you will, the graph of the function y = 1/x from x=1 to x=infinity.
...and lots more>>of that:  You can fill the funnel with paint, but you can't paint its
>>surface, because you will never have enough paint!
>>
>
>"Mathematical Recreations: Pi, e and all that" By Robert T. Kurosaka.
>Byte Magazine, September 1985, v10 no.9, P.409
>
>Credit where credit is due....
>
Sorry to look like a serious person, but I saw this in Goodman's Calc. text
in 1972, and I think in Johnson&kiokemeister in '70, so this particular
"fun" problem in intro calc is almost certainly in the public domain.
But then, net.bizarre is rated "S" for sickos only (:==> )



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