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- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Too clever by half
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.165051.7278@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:50:51 GMT
- Sender: ees1jd@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Jonathan Deane)
- Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
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- Not exactly a puzzle, but an amusing story about that Feynmann bloke (about
- whom many amusing stories circulate). He was showing off to his easily impressed
- colleagues that he could calculate, mentally, any number to within 1% (or some
- such) that could be specified in one sentence. He had no problem with things like
- ln(10) (he probably knew it) and other easy problems that people were asking him.
- His undoing came about when Hans Bethe walked past. "What's tan(10^100) then?" he
- asked. Ahhh...
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