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- From: julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas)
- Subject: Re: Prime number joke wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.215617.21788@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:56:17 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:
-
- Well, I sent my version email, but might as well post
- it too:
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- Prove all odd numbers are prime:
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- Mathematician: 1 prime, 3 prime, 5 prime, 7 prime. Therefore,
- by induction all odd numbers are prime.
- Physicist: 1 prime, 3 prime, 5 prime, 7 prime, 9 -- oops!
- bad data point. Throw it out. Thus, all odd numbers
- are prime.
- Programmer: 1 prime, 3 prime, 5 prime, 7 prime, 9 prime....
-
- Julie
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