I majored in mathematics and remember encountering this theorem in a topology course. I giggled then, and 20 years later I giggle again.
hinkley•36m ago
Have you considered a job in Defense? They love acronyms you can’t say out loud.
xanderlewis•28m ago
In German it’s called the Hedgehog Theorem.
Clearly, what they say about Germans is true.
fxwin•23m ago
Also known as the Combed Hedgehog Theorem (which i like a bit better)
gerdesj•15m ago
Ooh go on, what do they say about Germans?
I lived in West Germany for some years back in the day and I don't recall the locals being too shy. Frankly the Germans and the Dutch seemed to have had a rather more ribald sense of humour than the "oo err Missus" efforts we Brits fielded back then.
To be fair we could robustly swear on telly after 2100, provided it didn't involve too many rude bits and you could not misspell one variant of King Canute's name or Matron would be jolly upset.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure someone called this the "dog's arse" (it has to go somewhere!)
SegfaultSeagull•43m ago
hinkley•36m ago
xanderlewis•28m ago
Clearly, what they say about Germans is true.
fxwin•23m ago
gerdesj•15m ago
I lived in West Germany for some years back in the day and I don't recall the locals being too shy. Frankly the Germans and the Dutch seemed to have had a rather more ribald sense of humour than the "oo err Missus" efforts we Brits fielded back then.
To be fair we could robustly swear on telly after 2100, provided it didn't involve too many rude bits and you could not misspell one variant of King Canute's name or Matron would be jolly upset.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure someone called this the "dog's arse" (it has to go somewhere!)