> I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the st

> I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point. I see the point. In fact I'd go so far as to call myself "delighted". But I thought I was a true mathematician. 'Scuse me while I go have a little existential crisis.