Thursday, November 12, 2009

Nerds R Us



This morning after breakfast, I was about to start up the dishwasher when John, who had been helping load his dishes, pointed out that there was one more glass in the sink.

"There's always room for one more," he said playfully. 

"Yup," I agreed.

"Which means that we have a dishwasher of infinite capacity!"

I started to see it.  He went on,

"By induction!  You can fit one dish in it, and if you have n dishes, by the law that you can always fit one more in it, then you can put n + 1 dishes in it.  Therefore we have a dishwasher of infinite space!"

God knew what He was doing when He ordained that I would marry another math person.  :-)

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