On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this >>looks funny : >> >>>>> a=2 >>>>> b=6 >>>>> a and b >>6 >>>>> a & b >>2 >>>>> a or b >>2 >>>>> a | b >>6 > > That IS funny. Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool > us. One of my favorite math jokes is like that. A teacher asked a > student to reduce the following fraction: > 16 > ---- > 64 > > He says "all I have to do is cancel out the sixes, so the answer is > 1/4".
One of my favourite variations on this is by Abbott and Costello, where Costello proves that 13*7 = 28 in three different ways. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list