Re: bike dealer math skills

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

09/27/07- WE DIDN'T BECOME BIKE DEALERS DUE TO OUR SUPERIOR MATH SKILLS. So

Those running the Blackjack tables must salivate at the thought of bike dealers coming to town...

I'm not a bike dealer. I'm a mathematician. Our main national society, the AMS, once held its annual meeting in Las Vegas. We're talking 2000 mathematicians. It did not go so well. Cabbies hated us, since we all walked wherever we wanted to go. The casinos couldn't understand why we weren't gambling --- it was because we knew the probabilities, and they are not in our favor. So, they started offering free food. That got the mathematicians in the door, of course. There were breadlines of them stretching around the block. No one gambled, of course, they just came in for the free food.

After that the city of Las Vegas and the AMS agreed to not deal with each other in the future.

--

David L. Johnson

"What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass.
What are you on?"
--Lance Armstrong
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