>>Heh. That anecdote, as related, actually happened to Professor Farr
>>(a real WPI math professor) during a session of the calc class I had
>>with him my year at WPI.
>
>the telling in RoS doesn't quite have the same impact as hearing
>the whole anecdote firsthand. I think it gets cut off before
>ProfFarr's
>reaction at realizing what he's done.

True. Upon reaching about 15/16 of the way around the room, he paused, his explanation of the operation he was demonstrating trailing off, and said, "... which brings me to this, which is... completely... wrong. I must have made a mistake someplace around... " (He gestured vaguely at the first board.) "... You guys might as well go, it's going to take me an hour to figure out what I did wrong."

--G.
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