All Practical Purposes

(I am on a math kick lately, please forgive me.) A math professor was asked by a college student, "Professor, you are always using the words, 'for all practical purposes,' but what is a simple explanation of what that means?" The Professor thought for a bit and said, "imagine that we lined up all the boys on one side of the class and all the girls on the other side of the class. If I asked them to step half the distance between one another, each step would bring them closer, but they would never touch. But, after a very few steps, they would be close enough for all practical purposes."

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Neuroanatomy professor dad jokes the class

He was lecturing on the cranial nerves, which do pretty much everything for the head. They control all 5 senses and motor output as well as some other non relevant stuff.

Professor: So class does everyone remember what the senses are?

Class: touch/pain, sight, hearing/equilibrium, smell, taste.

Professor: Does anyone know what the sixth sense is?

Class: (thinking hes serious) Guess random shit like magnetoreception.

Professor: The sixth sense is the ability to see dead people.

Class: combination of groans and laughter

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