More math follies.

And again, my math instructor sent my brain down a path which he alone (if he got the reference) would probably be amused by, because none of the other people in my class would understand.

Anyway. The topic last night was combinatorics. Thus, the following text exchange:

P: And now we're doing combinatorics. I could calculate the number of names of god.

M: That would be...bad :-)

P: I didn't say I could calculate the actual names, just how many.

M: Oh, well that's all right then

P: So we'd know how long the universe would last.

M: Right. :-)

P: We'd need a giant mainframe to figure out the actual names. And a bunch of Tibetan monks.

P: How much do Tibetan monks cost to rent, these days?

M: Tuppence a pound.

P: We'd probably only need a couple. And a beowulf cluster.

Sadly, Mikey's question as to whether a beowulf cluster only uses 40-column terminals was lost to the ether.

I know, it was probably a lot funnier at the time.

For those of you who have no idea what we were talking about, go here and read:

The 9 Billion Names of God