From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!rjs Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer Article-I.D.: floyd.1109 Posted: Wed Jan 19 09:27:13 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 04:45:07 1983 A Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer were called into a room for a demonstration. In the room were a teapot, lying on the floor, and a stove. The demonstrator picked up the teapot, placed it on the stove, turned on the stove and soon the water boiled. Later, they were called back to the room one at a time and asked to boil the water. This time, however, the teapot was on a table which had been brought into the room. The Physicist went through hours of laborous calculation and measurements of the stove to determine the exact setting to cause the water to boil in the same amount of time as had been previously demonstrated. The Mathematician took the teapot off the table and placed it on the floor, thereby reducing the problem to one which had been previously solved, and the Engineer set fire to the table. Well, it had to come out sometime, Robert Snyder floyd!rjs