Re: Another Joke, Re: Engineering jokes

[Nguyen Tien Zung <tienzung@darboux.math.univ-montp2.fr>]

Tui nho+' co\n va\i ddoa.n sau:

Chemist khi ddu+o+.c ho?i "ca'c so^' le? co' dde^\u la\ nguye^n
to^'kho^ng" thi\ ba('t dda^\u: "3 la\ so^' nguye^n to^' ..., 5 la\ so^'
nguye^n to^' ..., ca^u ho?i lu'c na^~y la\ gi\ nhi?"

Computer Scientist thi\ "3 la\ so^' nguye^n to^', 5 la\ so^'
nguye^n to^', 7 la\ so^' nguye^n to^', 7 la\ so^' nguye^n to^',
7 la\ so^' nguye^n to^',... " 

> 
> 'Look at this mathematician', said the logician 'He observes that the
> first ninety-nine numbers are less than a hundred and infers hence, by
> what he calls induction, that all numbers are less than a hundred'
> 
> 'A Physicist believes', said the mathematician, 'that 60 is divisible by
> all numbers'. He observes that 60 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. He
> examines a few more cases, as 10, 20 and 30, taken as random as he says.
> Since 60 is divisible also by these, he considers the experimental
> evidence sufficient.'
> 
> 'Yes, but look at the engineer', said the physisist. 'An engineer
> suspected that all odd numbers are prime numbers. At any rate, 1 can be
> considers as a prime number, he argued. Then there came 3,5 and 7, all
> indubitably primes. Then there comes 9; an awkward case, it does not seem
> to be a prime number, Yet 11 ans 13 are certainly primes. "Comming back to
> 9", he said, "I conclude that 9 must be an experimental error"'.
> 
> 							George I'olya  
> 
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