Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: 0.999999….<p>A mathematician and an engineer are on a desert island. They find two palm trees with one coconut each. The engineer shinnies up one tree, gets the coconut, and eats it. The mathematician shinnies up the other tree, gets the coconut, climbs the other tree and puts it there. “Now we’ve reduced it to a problem we know how to solve.<p>An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are staying in a hotel. The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed. Later, the physicist wakes up and smells the smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He
walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, and so forth, extinguishes the fire with the
minimum amount of water and energy needed. Later the mathematician wakes
up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He
thinks for a moment and then exclaims, “Ah, a solution exists!” and then goes
back to bed.