{"id":1773772,"date":"2005-08-07T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2005\/08\/07\/Lightbulb-joke-Wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T00:07:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T00:07:42","slug":"Lightbulb-joke-Wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=1773772","title":{"rendered":"Lightbulb joke &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/horsewithnobunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/1773772\/'>Review<\/a> of :<br \/>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightbulb_joke'>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightbulb_joke<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/url\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightbulb_joke'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the page: &#8220;Q: How many Mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb?<\/p>\n<p>    A1: None. It&#8217;s left as an exercise for the reader.<br \/>\n    A2: In a recent article, Robertson states:<\/p>\n<p>        A: One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    However, in earlier work, Wiener [1] has shown that one mathematician can change a lightbulb:<\/p>\n<p>        If k mathematicians can change a lightbulb, and if one more simply watches them do it, then k 1 mathematicians will have changed the lightbulb.<\/p>\n<p>    It is vacuously true that in a group of 0 mathematicians, any one of them can change a lightbulb. Therefore, by induction, for all n in the positive integers, n mathematicians can change a lightbulb.<\/p>\n<p>    Bibliography %u2014<br \/>\n    See also : Internet humor[1] Wiener, Matthew P., , Re: YALBJ, 1986&#8243;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightbulb_joke From the page: &#8220;Q: How many Mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb? A1: None. It&#8217;s left as an exercise for the reader. A2: In a recent article, Robertson states: A: One. He gives &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=1773772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}