Doug ([identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ciphergoth 2009-02-19 06:28 am (UTC)

I like this tale too. I have a dim memory of a smart alec going on a boat trip with Pythagoreans, and casually asking them how long the diagonal of the unit square is. They took it in good humour and merely drowned their impious interlocutor.
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