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- Subject: Re: Prime number joke wanted
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- From: alanb@sdl.ug.eds.com (Alan Braggins)
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:40:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.174510.8920@netcom.com>
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- In-reply-to: jrs@netcom.com's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:45:10 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:45:10 GMT, jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) said:
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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!
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- Version I heard goes
- "Are all odd numbers prime?"
- Mathematician "1's prime, 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9 isn't - No"
- Physicist "1's prime, 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9 - experimental error, 11's prime - I guess so"
- Engineer "1's prime, 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9's prime, 11's prime - Yes"
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