stevenm (01/19/83)
Ok, I can't stand it anymore. Here is my humble submission to the engineer/scientist/mathemetician joke genre: Someone asks a mathematician, a physicist, an electrical engineer, and a computer scientist to prove the all odd numbers are prime. Mathematician: Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, and 7 is prime, therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime. Physicist: Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, and 11 is prime, therefore, by experimentation, all odd numbers are prime. EE: Well, um ah, I guess 1 is prime, and 3 is prime, and 5 is prime, and 7 is prime and, uh, 9 is prime, and 11 is prime - hell, all odd numbers is prime! Computer Scientist: Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime ...... **** 5 is prime, S. McGeady
leichter (01/19/83)
For mathematicians, it should be "1 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime - ah, they're all prime." (One is a special case, two is interesting, three is the same as "all".) Also: Sociology major: 2 is a prime, 4 is a prime, 6 is a prime, ... (it's been pointed out to me that the only thing wrong with this proof is that 2 is indeed a prime.) High school math teacher: "Now, class, watch this proof carefully; it will be on the exam. 1 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime - no questions 'till the proof is done - 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime - I said NO QUESTIONS 'TILL THE PROOF IS DONE - ..." -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter