Unfortunately it's for real [LWN.net]

Unfortunately it's for real

Posted Jun 10, 2008 3:36 UTC (Tue) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
In reply to: Unfortunately it's for real by proski
Parent article: Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux (ZDNet)

> But I'm not sure the policeman who ticketed you can prove it in front of the judge :-)

He just uses Rolle's theorem.

Believe it or not, way back in college calculus class (mid-1970s, which dates me), we actually
had a movie in class about this -- a state trooper ticketing a guy for speeding between toll
stations because of the too-high average speed, and then the cop goes on to explain Rolle's
theorum.

Hokey, yeah, but I still remember it.  (That and the one in biology class where a
football-field full of students act out DNA transcription.  Weird.)

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Unfortunately it's for real

Posted Jun 10, 2008 6:25 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I pity the poor sods who had to be helicase. Didn't they get dizzy?