A few months ago i was wandering around the country and a couple times found my self at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. Well, i happend to go to class with a friend, and the class happened to have one of the best prof’s i’ve ever heard of. We were talking after the class and he mentioned something the Prof had said once, and it’s been bothering me off and on for the past little while.
He asked, taking for granted that the true number of the stars in the sky could never be counted, would their number be odd or even.
Just something to chew on
“Remember, the world is only just becoming literate” -Aldous Huxley
If an integer’s uncertainty is greater than or equal to 1, wouldn’t its oddness or evenness (or, for that matter, its primeness or compositeness) be irrelevant? Especially since, considering how many galaxies there are, new stars are supposedly forming and old stars are dying out even as you read this?
Quick! Do you have an odd or an even number of hydrogen atoms in your body right now? Oops, you exhaled some water vapor, now you just wrecked the count! Start over, and this time, try not to breathe.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but until the number is actually counted, it is both odd and even, is it not? Or does that principle only work for killing cats?
OK, this one’s easy. Just pick up a nearby issue of Entertainment Weekly. Notice that for each leading lady, there is a leading man. Therefore, the total number of stars is a multiple of two - even.
Yipee!