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</ref> in Kelley comes to mind as an example of humor in a textbook. -- [[User:Chatul|Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul]] ([[User talk:Chatul|talk]]) 12:34, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

:::::The sidenotes in ''[[Concrete Mathematics]]'' are a hoot. note: "What is a proof? 'One half of one percent pure alcohol.{{'"}} // "The ∑ sign occurs more than 1000 times in this book, so we should be sure that we know exactly what it means." note: "That's nothing. You should see how many times ∑ appears in ''The Illiad''." // "... now [mathematicians] also have both floor and ceiling [notations]." note: "Next week we're getting walls." // "And the intervals [α..β) and (α..β], which contain just one endpoint, are defined similarly and called ''half-open''." note: "(Or, by pessimists, half-closed.)" // etc. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 05:17, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

 

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