Re: [MATHEDCC] question

Geoff Hagopian (galois@cyberg8t.com)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:49:36 -0800

Trying to think of a good inverse function here I came across a janitor advising a
girl waiting for a lady's room which had only a single berth:
"What you need is a pair of stalls, sis" he advised her.

I've toil(et)ed this far afield in the hope that something so sickening will put an
end to this nonsense.

geoff

Phil Mahler wrote:

> > At 7:51 PM +0000 1/17/98, Phil Mahler wrote:
> > >>My favorite, of course, is the equation having an x^7, the septic equation;
> > >
> > >If f(x) = x^7 would be the septic function, could we say that its
> > >inverse, f^(-1)(x) = x^(1/7) is the antiseptic function?
> > >
> > >Phll Mahler
> > >Middlesex CC
> > >Bedford, MA
> >
> > Touche. And if we had a two or more equations involving x^7?
> >
> > mark snyder
>
> took me a while... A septic system? :-)

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