Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Gawd I hate math, it just doesn't make sense to me. My brother is really good at it, reading a formula is for him what's reading a sentence is for me, and he is better at that as well. I am much more handsome though.
I heard this story from an American student back in 1992.
His brother was studying at some University (don't remember which) and since it had a good team in some sport (I think it was American football, but can't wager on that) it was always a problem to park the car on the University stadium parking lot on a game day. So this guy enlisted the help of a resourceful fraternity member. They drove to the entrance and the fraternity brother produced an official-looking invoice and said: "I've got a trunkload of logarithms for the Forestry college". The guard waved them in.
Math CAN be useful, after all.