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If you divided them horizontally, they would stop
Most people stop if you divide them horizontally.
I see the standard assortment of ancient reddit reposts are making their rounds through Lemmy. Good. Gooooood. Soon you will be more powerful than the both of us.
Is there a doctor around? There's someone who has 30 minutes to respond to a funding call and needs help ASAP.
It could also be one person who is having both a heart attack and an asthma attack.
Oho, but the cunning mathematician never specified the units. They could easily have meant two medical incidents, not two people!
Its a math degree, not group theory
Why did this jerk speak up in an emergency? To confuse people? Sheesh (yes I know it's part of the joke blah blah but let me take a moral high ground on an argument in my head for a second)
Because he's a doctor and doesn't know what kind of doctor they are looking for.
OK I get that - but in this fake scenario how many math PhDs would seriously be like "oh I'm a doctor that might be useful on an airplane right here right now"
c'mon that makes no sense
I get it's a joke and all but if a PhD is that full of themself then they need to take a break lol
Non-ambiguous use of language is important in our training.
He's helping with the mathematical aspects of the emergency. He's doing the best he can!

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