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From: jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: YAEMPJ
Message-ID: <189@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 23:43:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 23:43:55 1985
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Summary: 

In article <133@cornell.UUCP> michaels@cornell.UUCP (Michael I. Schwartzbach) writes:
>
>I heard this one once:
>
>  What's the difference between a mathematician, a physicist and
>  an engineer?
>
>  A mathematician assumes that a series is divergent until the
>  opposite has been proven.
>
>  A physicist assumes that a series is convergent until the
>  opposite has been proven.
>
>  An engineer assumes that a series is convergent even though
>  the opposite has been proven.


In fact, an engineer causes a series to be convergent even though
the opposite has been proven.


I've done it.

Jonathan E. Quist
ihnp4!laidbak!jeq
``I deny this is a disclaimer.''