A math professor is having problems with his sink, so he calls a plumber. The plumber comes over and quickly fixes the sink. The professor is happy until he gets the bill. He tells the plumber, “How can you charge this much? This is half of my paycheck.” But he pays it anyways.
The plumber tells him, “Hey, my company is looking for more plumbers. You could become a plumber and triple your salary. Just make sure you say you only made it to 6th grade, they don’t like educated people.”
The professor takes him up on the offer and becomes a plumber. His salary triples and he doesn’t have to work nearly as hard. But then the company makes an announcement that all of their plumbers must get a GED. So they all go to night school.
On the first day of night school they all attend a math class. The teacher wants to gauge the class, so he asks our hero, “What is the formula for the area of a circle?” As the mathematician manqué walks up to the board, he realizes that he has forgotten the formula. So he tries to derive it, filling the board with complicated mathematics, only to arrive at negative pi times radius squared. He thinks the minus doesn’t belong, so he starts over, but again he comes up with the same answer. After staring at the board for a minute he glances back at his fellow plumbers and sees that they are all whispering, “Switch the limits on the integral!”
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I would have put the Pathagaris Theory below her pantie line. Yes,Math matters! Remember this kids!! Oh BTW, you heard about the plumber that went on a service call to a dr's res. When the bill arrived the doc said,"I'm a Doctor + I don't make that kind of money." The plumber says,"Neither did I when I was a doctor."
