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Old 07-12-2007, 01:35 PM
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I suppose as one math professor tells it to a class, who teaches it to the students they TA later, and so forth, it will mutate. Or maybe it's a byproduct of Hodgekin's (or however the heck you spell that name) Law of Parallel Planet Development. In any event, I related the version I was taught.
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