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- From: rstimets@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (robert and stimets)
- Subject: Re: Prime number joke wanted
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- References: <1993Jan27.174510.8920@netcom.com> <GOWEN.93Jan27161515@jade.tufts.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:52:14 GMT
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- In article <GOWEN.93Jan27161515@jade.tufts.edu> gowen@jade.tufts.edu (G. Lee Owen) writes:
- >No, No, No. The way I heard the joke was:
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- >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..."
- >
- >
- A mathematician would say "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, by induction
- all odd numbers are prime"
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