What does it mean?

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Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:53:14 2012 No.4922118 [Reply] [Original]

What does it mean?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:57:00 2012 No.4922129 it means you should get off cracked.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 02:10:00 2012 No.4922154 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Benda

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 02:18:00 2012 No.4922169 Pretty sure it's an algorithm that the producers of Futurama made up in order to solve the body-switching problem they had in an episode.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 02:33:00 2012 No.4922192

>>4922169
I'm not sure if they made the proof first and then thought they could do an episode involving it, or the other way around.

But I do know that it's not just a proof of a specific situation in some show.

It's actually a valid mathematical proof involving permutations.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 02:44:45 2012 No.4922215 >>4922192 read >>4922154 for the full story

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