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- From: gowen@jade.tufts.edu (G. Lee Owen)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Prime number joke wanted
- Message-ID: <GOWEN.93Jan27161515@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:10:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.174510.8920@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
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- In-Reply-To: jrs@netcom.com's message of 27 Jan 93 17:45:10 GMT
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- No, No, No. The way I heard the joke was:
-
- An engineer, a chem major, and a computer science major were all
- applying for this job. At the job interview, the interviewers wanted
- to check their problem solving abilities. They asked each one to
- "Prove that every odd number is prime."
-
- "Well," says the engineer, "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is
- prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime..." He was very pleased with himself
- until they told him to go away.
-
- "Okay," says the chem major, "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5...
- well, 5 was an observational error, 7 is prime..." He too was
- immensely dissapointed when the interviewers told him to leave.
-
- "Let's see..." said the computer science major. "1 is prime, 3
- is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime..."
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-
- Needless to say, this is only one variation of what must be a
- hugely mutated joke.
- --
- --Greg Owen
- gowen@forte.cs.tufts.edu, gowen@jade.tufts.edu
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