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Praying Mantis Visits Math Classes

On September 15th, 2004, a praying mantis who was trying to escape the rain, decided to take cover inside an Icosidodecahedron origami project (similar to Stellation No. 10) in the math seminar room.

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First, he listens intently to Yung-Pin Chen lecture on Probability and Statistics.

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He is a good student, really paying attention to those details.

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Then he is becoming a little confused, so he's thinking of checking what it says in those books.

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Now he is taking a break from the math classes, and is doing a little gymnastics. Bet those students can't do this!