A police officer arrests a man for stealing $2. The judge is not amused and sentences the man to 10 years in prison.
The man thinks.
Then he says, " Judge, it was only $2. Why don't you make it $10 for 2 years. Mathematicians say that the order can be changed without changing the result." The judge says "Seems fair. That is the commutative law of addition. I will commute your sentence to the honor farm and...
here is your $8."
(courtesy of the Hall of Science, Flushing Meadow Park)
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