From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekmdp!stevenm
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.physics
Title: Prove that All Odd Numbers Are Prime
Article-I.D.: tekmdp.1692
Posted: Tue Jan 18 16:47:23 1983
Received: Fri Jan 21 04:19:36 1983


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