Re: Engineering Humor

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From: Conor O'Neill
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 12:12

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In article <13120@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> haferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
>From article <GERRY.92Jun22192347@onion.cmu.edu>, by gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston):
>> There are, of course, the engineer/physicist/mathematician jokes...

There are a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer in a room.
They are asked to prove or disprove the statement "all odd numbers are prime".

The mathematician says:
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, so by induction, all odd numbers are prime.

The physicist says:
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime...

The engineer says:
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime...

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Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd., UK.
UK: conor@inmos.co.uk		US: conor@inmos.com
"It's state-of-the-art" "But it doesn't work!" "That is the state-of-the-art".

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From: conor@lion.inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill)
Subject: Re: Engineering Humor
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