Rick wrote:
> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>> If 8 ducks equals 24.384 chickens then Farmer Brown concludes that he
>> lost 3.1434 ears of corn.

>> Properly incrementing his i59 geese Farmer Brown prudently finds a
>> rational apple.

>> Therefor surely the apples multiply faster than the corn?

>> Is it not true that the barn holds e^pi^e eggs?

>> -----

>> Me thinks farmer brown needs to stop counting on his fingers and use a
>> calculator.

> You city slickers wouldn't know a hen from a rooster.

> To prove Farmer Brown's first conjecture, that one multiplied one time,
> equals two, I will have to use a city slicker analogy.

> Mr. Barnum, is in his lab, and he looks in his microscope and he
> proclaims...
> "Oh, My, God, they are multiplying!"
> "I was looking at this cell, and it multiplied, one time, and now there
> are two cells"

> ipso facto and hence, one multiplied one time equals two.

> Mr. Barnum, looks again at a different slide and he says, "Hmmm... there
> are two cells, two identical cells, that is a sum, and this sum I will
> call the square, and now then, if this is my sum I am calling the
> square, what is the root of that square? What is the root cause of that
> square? Cell division. One cell, divided, into two cells. By this cell
> division, one has multiplied into two! Therefore, the root of two is one"