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Old 12-18-2004, 03:39 AM
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>> this evening's Pure Math end-of-term party <<

In one of his short stories, Arthur C. Clarke mentions a joke toast by (as I recall) a mathematician at a party full of engineers: "Here's to pure mathematics. May it never be of any use to anyone."
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