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In article <74...@pt.cs.cmu.edu> you write:
>This isn't really about computers, but it is about geniuses.
>Re: Knuth "humorously" posing Fermat's last theorem in his books:
>
>A friend of mine who went to Yale told me this story, 
>related by someone in an advanced (I think it was Topology) math
>class.
>
>The teacher would, as a "joke", pose certain unsolved problems 
>in exams and homework problem sets.
>The first time he did this, he asked if anyone had any luck with
>these problems.  
>Before he could say that these were unsolved,
>a certain quiet person in the back said,
>"Well, I got the first four but the fifth I'm not sure about."
>All five were previously unsolved problems...
>
>-- Steve

On the topic of hidden jokes in books, textbooks or otherwise, if you look
in the index of Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman's _Data_Structures_ under
recursion, you see a listing of about 10 page numbers including the number
of the page in the index that you are currently looking at...

-- 
Sean Colbath
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