ANGLESE:  During his stay at the court of Catherine II
of Russia, the great Swiss mathematician Euler got
into an argument about the existence of God.  To
defeat the voltairians in the battle of wits, the
great mathematician asked for a blackboard, on which
he wrote:  '(x+y)**2 = x**2 + 2*x*y + y**2; therefore
God exists.'

INTERLINGUA:  Durante su sojorno al corte de Catherina
II de Russia, le eminente mathematico switze se
incontrava in un disputa concernente le existentia de
Deo.  Pro vincer le voltairianos in iste battalia de
intelligentia, Euler requestava un tabula nigre, sur
le qual ille scribeva: "(x+y)**2 = x**2 + 2*x*y +
y**2; dunque Deo existe."

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ANGLESE:  Unable to dispute the relevance of the
formula which they did not understand, and unwilling
to confess their ignorance, the literati accepted his
argument.

INTERLINGUA:  Incapabile de disputar le relevantia del
formula, que illes non comprendeva, e non volente
confessar lor ignorantia, le litteratos acceptava su
argumento.

(Ex "Social Sciences as Sorcery" per Stanislav
Andreski, New York, Saint Martin's Press, c1977, p. 127)

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