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