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Just randomly remembered a joke that a prof did during my undergrad.
Some math fact related to Gauss came up, and the prof pulled out a slide for the overhead projector, with the 10 D-Mark bill on it, and said: 'Do you know him? This is Gauss. He's invented the number ten.'
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