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minorvogonpoet Started conversation Apr 11, 2011
I did geometry at school but have forgotten most of it 
.
I remember something called pi which enabled you to work out the area of a circle, if you hadn't eaten the pie first.
I remember that the squaw on the hide of the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides.
And I remember these little plastic things called protrators.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 11, 2011
In other words, geometry was pro-tracted misery?
*snigger*
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minorvogonpoet Posted Apr 11, 2011
Actually, geometry wasn't as bad as algebra. I could never get the hand of all those x and ys.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 11, 2011
Neither could I. (See today's Gheorgheniplex.)
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Apr 11, 2011
what is the volume of a cone ?
1 scoop of icecream, so not much
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cactuscafe Posted Apr 12, 2011
so there was my life before I read about the Unequilateral Triangle Detector, and now I inhabit the life thereafter, which isn't the same at all. . Now I live in a world of peculiar and slightly askew cimcumstance, and all perspectives and angles are erm ... . ... somehow polished to a fine shine and a fine line, by the Prof.
cc 
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Apr 12, 2011
modestly
in my mind and logic! straight bends DO exist
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- 1: minorvogonpoet (Apr 11, 2011)
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