Re: Brain teaser for newbies

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Brain teaser for newbies
Date	2012-06-14 12:43 -0700
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Roedy Green wrote:
> Professor Melzak (who taught discrete math at UBC) once told us a what
> he claimed was a true story.
> 
> A prof was writing a proof on the blackboard (a green, erasable
> vertical surface on which one wrote with a stick of chalk).
> 
> A student stuck up his hand and said, "I don't see how you got from
> step 10 to 11".
> 
> The prof said "It's trivial".
> 
> The student said, "I still don't see it."
> 
> The prof stared at it, and stared.  15 minutes went by. He left the
> room.  Just as the class was about to dismiss, he returned and said
> "It IS trivial".

Every version of that story I've heard over the years was averred to be a 
true story.

-- 
Lew

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Brain teaser for newbies Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-13 13:21 -0700
  Re: Brain teaser for newbies Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 14:15 -0700
    Re: Brain teaser for newbies Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-13 20:46 -0700
      Re: Brain teaser for newbies Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-13 22:43 -0700
        Re: Brain teaser for newbies Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-14 11:06 -0700
          Re: Brain teaser for newbies markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-14 11:45 -0700
        Re: Brain teaser for newbies Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-14 11:14 -0700
          Re: Brain teaser for newbies Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-14 12:17 -0700
            Re: Brain teaser for newbies Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-14 21:11 -0700
              Re: Brain teaser for newbies Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-06-15 08:14 +0300
                Re: Brain teaser for newbies Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-15 11:08 -0700
          Re: Brain teaser for newbies Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-14 12:43 -0700

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