How many mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb?

by courtney.gibbons on January 2, 2009 at 8:29 am

Chapter: comics

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Simple Country Physicistt

January 2, 2009, 9:07 am | #

None. You can always get a physicist to change it for you if you agree to help with some maths questions. As it happens I have some about the eigenvalue.vector spectrum of nonHermetian, nonpositive matrices.
stolee

January 2, 2009, 9:22 am | #

I will proceed a computational search: try one mathematician and add another until the lightbulb is fixed. The resources are the only limiting factor.
panicattackshelp

January 3, 2009, 2:12 am | #

Ummmm…One, lol =^/
Sylvia S.

January 6, 2009, 8:00 am | #

I’d say if you can get one mathematician to change a bulb, and one changing a bulb implies the next will change the next bulb, all mathematicians will eventually change a light bulb.

Oh wait, the set of mathematicians is not well-ordered, is it?
outlander

August 24, 2009, 2:42 pm | #

none of course… just assume it has been changed.
Rob

November 5, 2009, 10:32 pm | #

0.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 repeating.
Sara

January 22, 2010, 7:34 pm | #

None – it’s an already solved problem.
2400baud

January 11, 2017, 6:16 am | #

Ï€ or pi, 3.14…etc i think this is the obvious answer

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