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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!skule.ecf!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!boydj
  2. Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
  3. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:32:37 EST
  4. From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
  5. Message-ID: <92325.183238BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
  6. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l
  7. Subject: Re: last one-and it doesn't have anything to do with star trek!
  8. Lines: 16
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  11. >  The engineer says:  "3 is prime... 5 is prime... 7 is prime... 9 is
  12. >  prime... 11 is prime... ..."
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  14.  
  15. Based on my wife's experience as a chemical engineering grad student:
  16.  
  17.  
  18.    chem.eng. grad student  --  3 is prime
  19.                                5 is prime
  20.                                7 is-
  21.  
  22.    chem.eng. professor  --  That's enough.  We're fitting a line here,
  23.                             why are you wasting your time with more
  24.                             than 2 points?
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