(원문과 약간 다름)
세 남자가 기구를 타고 다니다가 계곡속에서 길을 일어버렸다.
마침 계곡 위를 지나가는 사람이 있어, 큰소리로 "저기요~~! 지금 우리가 어디있는 건가요??" 라고 물어보았다.
잠시후, 그 사람은 "당신들은 기구속에 있어요!" 라고 대답하였다.
그러자, 세 남자중 한사람은 "저사람은 분명히 수학자일꺼야."라고 이야기했다. 다른 한명이 궁금해 하며 "왜?" 라고 묻자, 이유를 대답하였다.
"답은 정확하지만 쓸모가 없거든."
원문 보기
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves
lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says,
"I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will
carry our voices far."
So he leans over the basket and yells out, "Helllloooooo! Where are we?"
(They hear the echo several times).
15 minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: "Helllloooooo! You're lost!!"
One of the men says, "That must have been a mathematician." Puzzled,
one of the other men asks, "Why do you say that?" The reply: "For three
reasons.
(1) he took a long time to answer,
(2) he was absolutely correct, and
(3) his answer was absolutely useless."
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