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- From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
- Subject: Prime number joke wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.174510.8920@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:45:10 GMT
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- I was thinking of the following joke, but couldn't remember all of the punch
- lines - can anyone add some or post the entire joke? When I first saw it, there
- were about 30 or 40 such explanations. Thanks!
-
- A team of scientists from various disciplines get together to come up with
- the definitive rule for finding prime numbers. After weeks of work, they
- develop a formula that produces 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, . . .
-
- The engineer looks at this and sees that 9 is not a prime; "Hmmm, the design
- has some problems," he says, "but this error is well within specifications."
-
- The chemist dismisses the 9 as an "observational error."
-
- The programmer says the 9 is the result of "a bug in the operating system."
-
- Any more?
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