I've just browsed through a few Mathematics Jokes websites and there's one joke which I don't really understand...I believe it's also on AskedNRich, but someone just said "you'll understand it later on".

Anyone care to explain the joke ''Let e < 0''? Thanks

Julian

It comes from a classic line in analysis proofs. Almost every analysis proof contains, at some point, some form of the line:

''given e > 0, we can choose x such that |f(x)| < e''

Of course, choosing e < 0 is silly. Hence the 'Joke'.

Told you it wasn't funny.

Haha, I get it now I've done some analysis. . Remember reading it a few years ago and not having a clue what it was on about. *sad*