OT: How many mathematicians...

One mathematician can do it. He screws the bulb in halfway, then the second turns it through half the remaining twistage, then the third ...

--- A: Mathematicians don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in peer reviewed journals describing the exquisite helices of the light bulb's filament.

-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

The correct answer is one.

Who hands the bulb to four Californians. Thus reducing the problem to a previously solved riddle.

Geez. Mired, aren't you. The difference is that Rich's and Don's versions are fair puns that a mathematician may find reasonably humorous.

Jon

What riddle is this? Do these four Californians subcontract it over to sixteen other Californian contractors?

Michael (a somewhat perplexed Californian)

Ah. Screw in a lightbulb. Funny.

Wouldn't two Californians be sufficient? They'd have to be awfully small Californians (or maybe a very large light bulb...?)

Silly. Californians don't screw in light bulbs. THey screw in hot tubs.

Jim

Anyway, if it was physical work, they'd probably hire an illegal for cash to do it.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

"Spehro Pefhany" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

The last time I screwed in a hot tub, I did it for free and it wasn't illegal.

Well, here's the original joke, for those of you whose attention span doesn't reach from one post to the next:

Cheers! Rich

No, Californians don't screw in a light bulb. Californiand screw in a hot tub. ;-)

And frat boys screw in a pool of vomit. ;-P

Cheers! Rich

Did I get this freaking sig right yet?

The last time I screwed in a hot tub, I got bruises on my knees and we both almost succumbed to heat prostration.

But she didn't mind being held up against the water jet....

Cheers! Rich

I thought it was

One, who looks at the burned out light bulb and states that a solution exists, and then leaves to write a scholarly paper about it.

Cheers

PeteS

I'd sure like to view that paper... especially the part where he PROVES that a DISTINCT and UNIQUE solution exists. (Or would it be an infinite sum of solutions...?)

I'd better stop, before I get sent to the asylum...

Michael

I like this one. (We work with a database consultant, so we can relate.)

Q: How many database people does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Three:

One to write the light bulb removal program, one to write the light bulb insertion program, and one to act as a light bulb administrator to make sure nobody else tries to change the light bulb at the same time.

YES! ALRIGHT ALREADY. STOP IT, IT'S LIKE TOO MUCH HARD WORK DELETING IT.

dna

Shit, sorry to have been sexist. Obviously the wives are out partying.

DNA