27 Apr
2014
27 Apr
'14
2:02 p.m.
Ha! As a grad student at Berkeley, I cut off one half of my beard, just for fun, and left it that way for several months. Never thought of the pedagogical applications, though. --Dan P.S. Nu, so how many hairs *are* in a beard? Veit Elser wrote: ----- beard bisection When word came down from on high, “teach them how to estimate”, I responded by estimating the number of hairs in a beard. At the first lecture I showed up with a full beard, the second with half shaved off, etc. each time with yet another half removed. When there was just a few square mm of beard left we counted the hairs. -----