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I somehow dug Cindy out of the crypts of my brain. The squeeze theorem is sometimes also called the sandwich theorem, so that one threw me off.

It's also sometimes (in Italian and Russian, according to my professors) called the Theorem of The Two Policemen. Imagine the path of a drunk staggering down the street. Then imagine the path of the two cops who come to grab him by the shoulders.

Et voila! The Theorem of the Two Policemen.



> The squeeze theorem is sometimes also called the sandwich theorem, so that one threw me off.

E is also the "ham sandwich theorem", so it looks like they were going for deliberately confusing




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