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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: offensive to mathematicians (and engineers too, I suppose)
Message-ID: <1038@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 14:31:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 14:31:17 1985
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From: schuh@fluke.UUCP (Michael Schuh), Message-ID: <1451@vax3.fluke.UUCP>:
>It came to pass one night that there were in a hotel a physicist, an engineer,
>and a mathematician, each in a separate room.

Oh yeah, well how 'bout this:

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A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were all attempting to prove
the theorem that all odd numbers are prime.

The mathematician reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
prime, 9 is ... oops, the theorem's false."

The physicist reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
prime, 9 is ... experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, ...."

The engineer reasoned "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, ...."

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Guess I told you!  (Unless of course 1 isn't really considered prime.... :-)

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