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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: education
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:27:55 -0300
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>>       And this, in turn reminds me of the decades-old "two mathematicians
>>>       and a waitress" joke; see, e. g. (URI split for readability):
>>>
>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20190622112330/
>>> http://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-086.html
>> 
>> Lol.  I don't get the joke.  What's up with the joke?  I'm slow.  The
>> waitress has a hard-science college degree but can't get a job in her
>> field?  That's not a joke.  I don't get the joke.  Please explain? :)
>
> The joke is that the second mathematician, who should know better, gave 
> the waitress the wrong answer to repeat.

Why was it the wrong answer?  Isn't 

  (1/3) x^3 + c

the integral of x^2?

> The waitress pretends to be dumb when he gives her what will be the 
> wrong answer to his question.

That's a mean waitress.

> Then, when he asks the question, she repeats his incorrect answer 
> flawlessly, and adds in the correction he should have known himself.
>
> I.e., the joke is that the mathematicians were not quite as "smart" as 
> they thouoght they were.

Then ChatGPT was right. :)