Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a ight bulb?
A: None. It's left to the reader as an exercise.

A': One. He gives it to eleven blondes, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke.

A": In an earlier article, we wrote:

Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. He gives it to eleven blondes, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke...

In earlier work, we it was shown that one mathematician
can change a light bulb.

If k mathematicians can change a light bulb, and if one more simply watches them do it, then k+1 mathematicians will have changed the light bulb.

Therefore, by induction, for all n in the positive integers, n mathematicians can change a light bulb.

I believe this one was once made up ...

Q) How many T21ers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A) BEER!!!!!!

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by Mastermind
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a ight bulb?

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A: Actually the correct way to approach the problem is to ask how many amthematicians it DOESNT take to change a lightbulb, and disprove it: Reductio Ad Absurdum.

Q. How to kill a thread with one post?
A. Here's how

Muppet!

Thats cheating Stoo!

How many SG-1 fans does it take to change a lightbulb?

They wouldn't. There's no way it'd ever be as good as the one it replaced.

How many female rights activists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Three: One to change it, the other two to set up a support group called 'Coping with the Dark' for burnt-out lightbulbs.

How they change the light bulbs in the original Star Trek

Scotty will report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in the Engineering Section is burnt out, to which Kirk will send Bones to pronounce the bulb dead.

Scotty, after checking around, notices that they have no more new light bulbs, and complains that he can't see in the dark to tend to his engines. Kirk must make an emergency stop at the next uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb from the natives.

Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, and 3 red shirt security officers beam down. The 3 security officers are promptly killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured.

Meanwhile, back in orbit, Scotty notices a Klingon ship approaching and must warp out of orbit to escape detection.

Bones cures the native king who is suffering from the flu, and as a reward the landing party is set free and given all of the light bulbs they can carry.

Scotty cripples the Klingon ship and warps back to the planet just in time to beam up Kirk et. Al .

The new bulb is inserted, and the Enterprise continues with its five year mission.

got this from a site that a lot of you are obviously familier with:

www.lightbulbjokes.com

Edit: how do you create a hyperlink in your posting?


(Edited by Havoc 04/10/2002 10:57)

{Edit: That's how to do it - Stoo}

(Edited by Stoo 04/10/2002 12:55)

How many Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Fifteen: one to screw it in, five to say he acted alone, one to say that someone hidden in the ceiling helped, one to film it, one to do an intense examination of the film and conclude that a) it was tampered with and b) it proves that the first screwer did not act alone, one to insist that the bulb was altered after it was unscrewed, three tramps to walk across the room an hour later, one to insist someone else really screwed the bulb in, and one to accuse all the others of being disinformation specialists.

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Havoc - try it like this but without the spaces