Here's a little something from ten years ago. Originally titled "Wowza Numbers", it has been specially adapted for the cookie mail. [Note: I have reverted the title and contents to the original.]
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excerpt from WORTHLESS MATHEMATICS, Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 1986)
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WOWZA NUMBERS
John Leo
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
and
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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1. INTRODUCTION
Numbers have become too boring. In order to add a little spice to
your everyday number, you can put some meaningless word in front of
it. This paper is an attempt to capitalize on that idea.
2. DEFINITION
WOWZA NUMBER: A number with the word "wowza" in front of
it. For example, 2 becomes wowza2. Complex numbers can also
become wowza numbers. For example, 3.62+4i becomes
wowza3.62+4i.
3. THEOREMS
THEOREM 1: Wowza numbers are equivalent to ordinary numbers.
PROOF: To make a wowza number from an ordinary number, prepend
the word "wowza" to the number. To convert a wowza number
to an ordinary number, remove the word "wowza." Thus there is a
1-1 mapping from numbers to wowza numbers, proving their
equivalence. []
THEOREM 2: Wowza numbers are one of the greatest advances of
mathematics.
PROOF: Numbers are clearly one of the greatest advances of
mathematics. By theorem 1, wowza numbers are equivalent to
numbers. Therefore, wowza numbers are one of the greatest
advances of mathematics. []
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