now then Amy we'll simply switch bodies
and then we'll we'll no I'd be back in
my body but then you and Bender would be
switched and the Amy and Bender bodies
can't trade Minds again since they just
did oh no is it possible to get everyone
back to normal using four or more bodies
I'm not sure I'm afraid we need to use
math
bu hi copyright lawyers you don't see a
lot of mats on television I guess it's
hard to compete with car chases and
exploding buses and so on well there was
that one time I tried to divide by zero
but apart from that it's not really that
sort of subject even archaeologists get
to fight Nazis with a K Fedora and a
whip but why didn't they make Dr Jones a
mathematician I will calculate the
location of the Ark of the Covenant
quick fetch me my calculator numbers
makes a good attempt to show that not
all mathematicians are crazy old men in
Tweed no in reality only some of us are
like that I do wear leather elbow
patches but that's only because I'm
trying to give up leather elbows hey hey
see that was like a joke it wasn't much
like one I'll give you that but then the
mathematics on numbers is barely more
than vaguely plausable technobabble no
for real mathematics you need to watch
future Rama in the prison of of Bender
Amy and the professor have just finished
their mind swapping machine and decide
to switch bodies now naturally I can
understand why Amy would want to swap
with the professor's body but I can't
understand why a professor would want to
enter his young students body that would
never happen it would never happen
unfortunately after two bodies switch
minds they can never switch back but
maybe if they introduce another body
they can play a little mental musical
chairs so Amy's body and Bender's body
swap Minds however like a game of
musical chairs at a 5-year-old's
birthday party it inevitably ends in
tears adding one extra body isn't enough
to get everyone back to cut a short
story shorter Amy swapped with a
professor and Bender swapped with Amy's
body then the professor's body swapped
with Leela Amy's body swapped with a
wash bucket fry swapped with zoyberg the
emperor Robo Hungary swapped with the
Ross bucket's body or bucket and finally
Hermes swaps Minds with Leader's body
this shuffling of like shuffling a pack
of cards is called group Theory working
from left to right you can see fry and
zberg only swap with each other but Amy
first swaps with the professor then the
professor's body swaps mind with Leela
then Leela's body swaps Minds with
Hermes so Alto together Amy becomes
Hermes in the same way Hermes becomes
Leela Leela becomes the professor the
professor becomes Bender Bender becomes
the emperor and the emperor becomes the
wash bucket harsh to sort this out will
Le some maths Ken Keela and a couple of
Globe
Trotters a number of future armor
writers have maths and Science degrees
in fact the writer of this episode Ken
Keela obtained a PhD in Applied
Mathematics from Harvard University
before becoming a comedy writer I can
understand why why work for a dump like
Harvard when you can work for a dump
like Fox to undo what he had done Keeler
used group theory in what must be the
most mathematically sound resolution to
a TV show ever although Stargate already
did it 10 years ago but I doubt they had
a theorem as the gang had already
discovered adding one extra body isn't
enough but adding two extra bodies will
be and here it is ketos theorem for each
cycle split the Mind swaes into two
halves everyone in the first half swaps
with the First new guy and everyone in
the second half swaps with the second
new guy then we've TS two or three more
swaps everyone is back to normal and
that will always work see if fries swaps
with sweet Clyde and zoyberg swaps with
bugum Tate then zoyberg swaps with sweet
Clyde and Fry swaps with bugum Tate then
fry and zberg will be back to normal and
if everyone else swaps like this then
everyone is back to normal if you can
call any of this normal this will always
work in this case it took 13 moves
however to kila's theem I will add
Grimes coraly since they had not swapped
with the others fryan zberg can take the
place of sweet Clyde and bubblegum Tate
and you can do all of this in only nine
moves and sweet Clyde and bubblegum Tate
could have stayed at home practicing
their basket balling but is that it can
you find a better way let me know see
you and they say pure math has no real
world
applications