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How to think like a mathematician

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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What's the Most Unusual Quest?

Randall Devoy: You can always try to figure out how much does the input matter? How much does the exact density of the soup matter? If you find a really diffuse soup, something that's like cotton candy density, maybe you could come up with something where it wouldn't immediately form a black hole. But if it's a soup that has any kind of a water base, a wet soup, I don't know about cooking, then you're going to have something that's about the density of water.

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