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	Top 10 Things That Math and Sex Have in Common

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6246d1a6-c0e1-4444-97f1-79d6fc93c784/6A982A3B-B5EC-494C-A406-A0062138BEDE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://copyoflists.blogspot.com/2007/03/top-10-things-that-math-and-sex-have-in.html" href="http://copyoflists.blogspot.com/2007/03/top-10-things-that-math-and-sex-have-in.html" style="font-size: 11px;">copyoflists.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://copyoflists.blogspot.com/2007/03/top-10-things-that-math-and-sex-have-in.html"><H3 class="post-title">
<A href="http://copyoflists.blogspot.com/2007/03/top-10-things-that-math-and-sex-have-in.html">Top 10 Things That Math and Sex Have in Common</A>
</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://copyoflists.blogspot.com/2007/03/top-10-things-that-math-and-sex-have-in.html">1. Professionals are generally viewed with suspicion, and most do not earn high pay.<BR />2. Both typically begin with a lot of hard work and end with a great but brief reward.<BR />3. Saint Augustine was hostile to both, and Alan Turing took an unusual approach to both.<BR />4. Both merit undivided attention, but mathematicians are prone to think about one while doing the other.<BR /><DIV>5. Both involve long and hard problems, and can produce interesting topology and geometry.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://copyoflists.blogspot.com/2007/03/top-10-things-that-math-and-sex-have-in.html">6. Most people wish they knew more about both subjects.<BR />7. Both are prominent on college campuses, and are usually practiced indoors.<BR />8. There are many joint results.<BR />9. Historically, men have been in control, but there are now efforts to get women more involved.<BR /><DIV>10. Explicit discussions of either topic is a faux pas at most cocktail parties.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6A982A3B-B5EC-494C-A406-A0062138BEDE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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