It just so happens the only conceivable purpose of the original story was proving something. Absolutely wrong. The purpose of the original story was to provide

It just so happens the only conceivable purpose of the original story was proving something. Absolutely wrong. The purpose of the original story was to provide an illustration. Now, if he had anecdote which helped you remember, say, the standard form of the quadratic equation... There are ideas and lessons worth remembering that aren't mathematical facts.