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From: kelem@aero.ARPA (Steve Kelem)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: From Sun_Man
Message-ID: <491@aero.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 19:07:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero.491
Posted: Sun Oct  6 19:07:30 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 17:28:33 EDT
References: <1100@princeton.UUCP>
Reply-To: kelem@aero.UUCP (Steve Kelem)
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In article <1100@princeton.UUCP> jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee) writes:
>Question:  prove all odd numbers are prime.
>
>Mathematician:  1 is prime ,  3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, ....
>		11 is prime, so is 13 and therefore, by induction, all
>		odd numbers are prime.  QeD.
>
>Physicist:	1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 ....
>		11 is prime, 13 is prime, .... all odd numbers are 
>		prime, 9 is just experimental error.
>
>Engineer:	1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is
>		is a good approximation, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, ....
>		therefore, all odd numbers are prime.

Statistician:	Take a random sample, 13 is odd and prime, 101 is odd and prime,
		47 is odd and prime, ... therefore, all odd numbers are prime.