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From: Rick <rick_so...@hotmail.com>

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:11:08 +0100

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Subject: Proof of Farmer Brown's First Conjecturer

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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"

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