Is Math a sport?

[BobG]

Entertaining article about the recent Math Olympiad held in Athens.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103903/

I'm not sure if math should be a sport, but I think a couple of the other things he mentioned would be entertaining.

[Gokul43201]

Haven't read the article yet, but there used to be a time when I would play math games, like mentally calculating logarithms, cube roots, etc. of randomly chosen numbers, with a couple of buddies. (Such games are more fun in between tequila shots.) The winner was the one with the first correct answer (good to 4 sig figs). This is not very different from say, a 400m hurdles, except you use your brain instead of your legs.