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- From: plord@pioneer.uspto.gov (Paul Lord)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: squirrels and orgasms
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:30:57 -0600
- Organization: United States Patent and Trademark Office
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- As you may or may not know, squirrels have a limited counting system
- consisting of one (1), two (2), and many [...). So if a squirrel is
- taking nuts from a pile, and every time he takes the 3rd-to-the-last
- one, you replace it, the squirrel will never catch on. Beyond a set
- of two, all sets are equivalent, at least in squirrel math.
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- I have discovered that Morgan, one of my two lovers, reverts to this
- level of mathematical ability in certain situations mentioned in the
- header. I know this NOT because I am so gauche as to make inquiries
- of a numerical nature; rather, I noticed over time that whenever the
- subject *did* arise in conversation, the quantities mentioned always
- fell into one of two categories: small multiples of 3, and imprecise
- descriptors such as "more than three."
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- Paul
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- "For all Morgans in ecstacy, the set of Integers reduces to (1,2,3)
- explicit, with possible (6,9,12...) if a reset occurs."
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