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tybris on April 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate

How was it funny? It seems like a sound reasoning, depending on whatever alpha represents.

JBrone on April 7, 2011 [–]

It's funny because the students thought he was being cheeky, when in fact he was making a logical leap that few individuals would EVER make, much less in a random junior level physics course.

He basically Nerd-burned them, and that is something I can get behind.

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