Gene is a very sensitive cat his emotional state is very fragile. 

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in that sense i guess the joke holds. certainly does not for the under challenged genius part. besides, there are about 81 known way of proving the pythagorean theorem so 17 isnt that big of a number once you know what the max is. matter of fact, most math majors know 20-25.