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"James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:

> On 09/13/2016 04:41 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 9/13/2016 12:37 PM, Ken Brody wrote:
>>> On 9/8/2016 3:57 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Just as people who believe the Earth is flat (yes, they still exist)
>>>> don't
>>>> book round-the-world-flights.  And if they did, everybody would rightly
>>>> condemn them.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the Earth's surface is flat in some non-Euclidean space?
>>>
>>> Just as the question to "42" can be "what is 9 times 6".
>>
>> I thought it was "what is 7 times 6".
>
> It depends upon which base you're using.

"I may be a pretty sad case, but I don't write jokes in base 13"