The Mathletes’ Secret Weapon

No time for a real post right now, but I thought some of y’all would appreciate this. I’m playing on the math grad students co-ed rec flag football team (brilliantly named the Mathletes). We won our first game last night by forfeit, and so we had time for a practice. We designed four basic plays and practiced them several times. We gave them all names: 1, 2, 3, and 4. But someone had the brilliant idea to call them all at the line modulo 4. So it sounds like we’ve got 20 plays, but in fact there are only four.

The best was when we got to the line, Scott called 1, and then audibled to 5.

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3 Responses to The Mathletes’ Secret Weapon

  1. (a) Hilarious title.
    (b) I’m laughing quite hard. You are actually using a math joke my pathetic computer-science mind understands!

  2. MEG

    Just when I think you couldn’t get any nerdier, you do something like this and completely redeem yourself.

  3. Your Math Teacher could kick The Mathletes’ ass any day. ;-)

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