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What the mathematician saw while scuba diving

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On returning, the mathie recounted his morning dive and the various marine species he'd seen. He concluded his description: "... and I had the rare privilege of seeing 25.133!"

What could he have meant by this?

39 minutes ago, TheVat said:

On returning, the mathie recounted his morning dive and the various marine species he'd seen. He concluded his description: "... and I had the rare privilege of seeing 25.133!"

What could he have meant by this?

Resting octopus

Why doesn't the spoiler work? It's the plural of @Genady 's visual answer.

Edited by joigus
spoiler spoilt

Here are two of them mating, but the picture didn't turn out clear.

Octopuses couple

Edited by Genady

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Spoiler Warning (due to spoiler function not working):

Well done. And thanks for not pointing out that, given the Latinized form of the Greek name, my implied plural form is grammatically incorrect. (In Latin, -us is only pluralized to -i when the -us is a suffix; our colorful friend, however, ends with -pus, which means foot, so it's not a -us suffix, ergo it becomes -puses rather than -pi)

Now I must hurry, I've missed two downtown bi already.

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