1,000,001: One to change the bulb and 1,000,000 to rebuild civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again.
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Nearly unanswerable, since the one who tries to change it usually drops it, and the others call for a planning session.
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One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke...
In earlier work, Wiener [1] has shown that one mathematician can change a light bulb.
If k mathematicians can change a light bulb, and if one more simply watches them do it, then k+1 mathematicians will have changed the light bulb.
Therefore, by induction, for all n in the positive integers, n mathematicians can change a light bulb.
Bibliography:
[1] Wiener, Matthew P., <11485@ucbvax>, Re: YALBJ, 1986
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Only one, but they get three tech. reports out of it.
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I don't know. I didn't think sheep could knit
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One. But for the message of light to continue, send in your donation today.
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They're both plastic and little boys turn them on.
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