How to Identify a Mathematician
One fine afternoon, the king and his poet decided to take a ride in the
balloon. As they flew over beautiful valleys and hills, they lost track of
where they were, and soon landed in a field in a village they had never seen
before.
They saw an absent-minded man pass by, and asked him where they were.
The man replied "Well of course, you are in a balloon!". The poet said "He
must be a mathematician. What he says is exact, and useless."
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