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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: From Sun_Man
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 09:41:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 09:41:22 1985
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>>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.

Programmer:	Everybody knows that has table lengths should be prime.
		My hashing routine doesn't work with any prime numbers, and
		it foesn't work with any numbers at all, therefore there
		are no prime numbers.