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On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

> 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".

Not Python, but:

	#define SIX  1 + 5
	#define NINE 8 + 1
	...
	printf("six times nine is: %d\n", SIX * NINE);