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The tiny Indian math teacher at our school usually takes us when Ms Vis is away. She had us a week or so ago, and tried to teach us about hyperbolas. What follows is broadly paraphrased.

Miss: Okay so infinity, right. See, you have to imagine there's this frog. Okay, I have this frog, and it does jobs for me, and then it comes to sit on my shoulder. But I don't like it sitting on my shoulder, because it's a frog. So I give it a job because it won't come and sit on my shoulder as long as it has work to do. Like you should not be talking until you have finished your maths work! Anyway, this frog, right. I give it a job that takes a long time, I trick it. I tell it, go jump to that wall, but you have to do it like this. These are the rules. You jump half the distance with each jump. So you see I am being clever, and he will never reach the wall because when he reaches halfway, *starts walking towards wall* are you following me, girls?
Class: O.o

Date: 2006-04-08 07:12 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
I'd love to put that in a fortune cookie!

...holyfuckitsaftermidnight. Uuuuuh. I think I have to wake up in six hours or so. I'm off! Bye.

Date: 2006-04-08 10:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
Er. As an afterthought. You remember in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where that crazy man kept giggling about frogs? ...yeah.

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