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A physicist, a mathematician, and an engineer go the horse races. The physicist bets on Everybody's Favorite, who had never been beaten, but this time comes in second. The engineer bets on Bobtail Nag, who comes in third. The mathematician bets on The Bay, who was the longest of long shots, but wins. The physicist says, "Amazing! I thought it was well established from prior experiments that Everybody's Favorite always wins." The engineer says, "I thought so too, but as a practical matter the payoff wouldn't have been much, so I figured I'd just play a hunch. How could anyone have expected that The Bay would win?" "Simple," explains the mathematician. "Firstly, let us assume that a horse is a perfect sphere..."
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