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I don't get it - is counting the # of legs less work than counting the # of cows? It would seem to be 4x the work, or am I being dense?
by rexreed 10y ago
I don't get it - is counting the # of legs less work than counting the # of cows? It would seem to be 4x the work, or am I being dense?
- ColinWright 10y agoIt's a well-known "joke", and it clearly plays off the idea of this article wherein calculating 52! is, genuinely, done by calculating 54! then dividing by a correction factor.
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- a_c_s 10y agoThat's exactly the joke - that he's doing something that's 4x more work than just counting the cows directly.