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From: mojo@well.UUCP (Mojo Jones)
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Subject: Re: offensive to mathematicians (and engineers too, I suppose)
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Beth Christy writes:
>
>The mathematician reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
>prime, 9 is ... oops, the theorem's false."
>

Ah ... not the way I heard it at Caltech.  The mathematician reasoned
"Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, ... clearly by induction all
odd numbers are prime."

Then there was the philosopher, who reasoned, "One is prime."

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And I suppose you've heard the elephant joke sequence:

Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant and a hippopotomas?
A: Elephant * Hippo * sin(theta)

Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant and a mountain climber?
A: Zero (A mountain climber is a scalar)

Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhinocerous?
A: Elephino

-- 
Mojo
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