Re: Trying to define Surrogates

All this talk of natural reminded me of a day in class of what has to be one of the funniest and best high-school calculus teachers. Read the following (followin') in your best Southern US accent and make sure to pause at the ...'s for a full two seconds.

Q: Mr. Chandler, what's the difference between a natural number and whole number?

A:

Alrighhhht. Ya gotch yer nat'ral numbers. (counting on his fingers)
That's one ... two ... three ... FIIIVE!

And then ya got the whohhhhhhle numbas.
That's zero ... one ... two ... FIIIVE!

Now I knowwwww whatch y'all are thinkin'. Why isn't zero a nat'ra numba?

Well ... you woudn't look out da winda
one day and say "Hmm. I have zero cows t'day!"

Dat's unnat'ral !!!

• Keith -- Fraud 6