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- From: jarleb@athena.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann)
- Subject: Re: 999,999,999 Green bottles
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.102345.20811@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Organization: Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
- References: <1992Nov30.192118.61409@cc.usu.edu> <mPu4uB12w165w@mertwig.UUCP> <BynwBG.G2H@mach1.wlu.ca> <1993Jan25.175105.4340@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:23:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.175105.4340@bradford.ac.uk>, A.D.Brown@bradford.ac.uk (AD BROWN) writes:
- |>From: A.D.Brown@bradford.ac.uk (AD BROWN)
- |>Newsgroups: rec.humor
- |>Subject: Re: 999,999,999 Green bottles
- |>
- |>veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
- |>
- |>>In article <mPu4uB12w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
- |>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> 999,999,999 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> 999,999,999 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> and if one green bottle should accidentally fall
- |>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> they'd be....
- |>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>
- |>>> ____________________________________
- |>>>| |
- |>>>| ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC |
- |>>>|____________________________________|
- |>>>
- |>>>
- |>>>> 999,999,985 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>>>> 999,999,985 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>>>> and if one of those bottles should happen to fall
- |>>>> they'd be...
- |>>>
- |>>>Come on, cascades don't have to be THIS stupid.
- |>>>
- |>
- |>>Well, personally, I find this far more amusing than any cascade. I haven't
- |>>seen this many people get this annoyed at any cascade yet! I almost get
- |>>sick from laughing at all these people telling them to stop. I love it! In
- |>>fact......
- |>
- |>>999,999,984 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>>999,999,984 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>>and if one of those bottles should happen to fall
- |>>they'd be...
- |>
- |>A chain reaction that would cause half the bottles to fall each time
- |>so:
- |>
- |>49,999,992 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>49,999,992 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- |>and if half of those bottles should happen to fall
- |>there'd be...
- |>
- |>etc.
- |>
- |>Alistair
- |>--
- |>/------------------------------------------------\
- |>| EMAIL: A.D.Brown@bradford.ac.uk |
- |>| I'd give my right arm to be able to touch type |
- |>\------------------------------------------------/
- |>
-
- And then we have the mathematicians version:
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- There's aleph_null bottles hanging on the wall
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- And if one of those bottles should happen to fall
- there'd be aleph_null bottles hanging on the wall.
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- (For the ignorant : Aleph_null is in some sense the smallest infinite number
- it's the number of natural numbers 1,2,3,..... (Yes it is true!!))
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- Jarle.
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