In related news: Erasmus Darwin held that every so often you should try a damn-fool experiment. He played the trombone to his tulips. This p

In related news: Erasmus Darwin held that every so often you should try a damn-fool experiment. He played the trombone to his tulips. This particular result was, in fact, negative. That's from "A Mathematician's Miscellany" by Littlewood, which is an excellent collection of quirky bits and pieces of this kind. Highly recommended. https://archive.org/details/mathematiciansmi033496mbp/page/n5 https://archive.org/details/mathematiciansmi033496mbp/page/n...