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From: shah@cornell.UUCP (Amitabh Shah)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: offensive to mathematicians (and computer scientists too)
Message-ID: <160@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 22:00:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: cornell.160
Posted: Tue Aug 27 22:00:39 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 09:07:49 EDT
References: <1451@vax3.fluke.UUCP> <1038@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: shah@cornell.UUCP (Amitabh Shah)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
Lines: 34
Keywords: mathematicians physicists engineers
Summary: 

In article <1038@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) writes:
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>From: schuh@fluke.UUCP (Michael Schuh), Message-ID: <1451@vax3.fluke.UUCP>:
>>It came to pass one night that there were in a hotel a physicist, an engineer,
>>and a mathematician, each in a separate room.
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>Oh yeah, well how 'bout this:
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>A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were all attempting to prove
>the theorem that all odd numbers are prime.
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>The mathematician reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
>prime, 9 is ... oops, the theorem's false."
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>The physicist reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
>prime, 9 is ... experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, ...."
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>The engineer reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
>prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, ...."
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And did you hear about the computer scientist who responded: "3 is a prime,
3 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 3 is a prime......."


	amitabh shah'

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