A pair of discrete mathematicians are in a field. One asks “I wonder how many sheep there are in this field?” The second replies “there are 200 sheep.” The first is astonished, “How did you count that so fast?” “Simple, I counted the legs and divided by four!”
An algebraist who happens to be passing by at the time scoffs, “Applied mathematicians…”, shaking his head in disgust. “A finite field can’t be of order 200. Surely you’ve miscounted 199…”
A pair of discrete mathematicians are in a field. One asks “I wonder how many sheep there are in this field?” The second replies “there are 200 sheep.” The first is astonished, “How did you count that so fast?” “Simple, I counted the legs and divided by four!”
An algebraist who happens to be passing by at the time scoffs, “Applied mathematicians…”, shaking his head in disgust. “A finite field can’t be of order 200. Surely you’ve miscounted 199…”