Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth 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 Article-I.D.: sphinx.1038 Posted: Thu Aug 22 14:31:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:02:55 EDT References: <1451@vax3.fluke.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 36 Keywords: mathematicians physicists engineers [This line intentionally left blank] 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: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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, ...." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Guess I told you! (Unless of course 1 isn't really considered prime.... :-) [This blank line, however, was an accident] -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "Oh yeah, P.S., I...I feel...feel like...I am in a burning building And I gotta go." (Laurie Anderson)