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Re:π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate by tybris on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:54PM (#2417160)
How was it funny? It seems like a sound reasoning, depending on whatever alpha represents.
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Re:π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate by JBrone on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:36AM (#2418205)
It's funny because the students thought he was being cheeky, when in fact he was making a logical leap that few individuals would EVER make, much less in a random junior level physics course.

He basically Nerd-burned them, and that is something I can get behind.

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