There is a joke about coffee, sugarcubes and odd numbers.

I think it goes a bit like this: "You have 17 sugarcubes. How do you get two odd numbers of sugarcubes into the coffee, and use all of the suagarcubes?"

Does anyone remember it?


Thank you.

Divide fourteen sugar cubes into three cups of coffee so that each cup has an odd number of sugar cubes in it."
"That's easy: one, one, and twelve."
"But twelve isn't odd!"
"It's an odd number of cubes to put in a cup of coffee..."


http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html

That's the one!!!


Thank you!

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But can someone explain to me this joke?

The math teacher asks his students: "What is 9 times 7?"
He gets several answers - all are either 62 or 65.
"Come one - the correct answer can either be 62 or 65!"

Okay, both answers are wrong, but why 62 and 65, not other numbers?

Curiocity,

I think that if you were a mathematician, then you'd understand why 62 and 65.

Hmm.
Funny joke about the sugar cubes.

But. I'm puzzled by the 9x7 joke.
I think a key element of the joke is "Come one."
What significance would the one have? 62 is one less than 63. But what of 65?

One interesting thing that the numbers 62 and 65 have in common is that they are both the product of primes:

2x31=62
5x13=65

Might be coincidence though. And I really don't see what the 'one' would have to do with it.

Also, the joke says 'the correct answer can either be 62 or 65. Not 'neither'.

I wonder if it's boolean?
Ascii?
Godel numbering?
(Not Ascii. 62 is > and 65 is A.)

I'll be disappointed if someone figures it out and its something way too simple...

I think that joke is just about how poorly mathematicians do at basic math.


You know, like:

Three statisticians go hunting. When they see a rabbit, the first one shoots, missing it on the left. The second one shoots and misses it on the right.
The third one shouts: "We've hit it!"