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From: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (palena)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre mathematics
Message-ID: <2366@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 11:05:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2366
Posted: Thu Oct 10 11:05:47 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Oct-85 03:22:35 EDT
References: <2452@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> <346@ihdev.UUCP> <315@aoa.UUCP>
Reply-To: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena)
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Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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In article <315@aoa.UUCP> carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) writes:
>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 (:==> )

                   Actually the question of where this first appeared is
           easily solved.The first person to carry out the two integrals
           and find out that the first one doesn't exist and the second 
           one does should be given credit.So if that person is reading
           this net (and I'd be willing to bet s/he is) please inform us 
           so you can receive your "GOD MATH CAN BE WEIRD" award.


                                       Larry Palena

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