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Offline Hooman

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« on: October 10, 2005, 03:15:30 AM »
So, a Mathematician, a Physicist, and an Engineer are asked to write a proof that all odd numbers greater than 1 are primes.


Math
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9 is odd, but 9 = 3 * 3 is not prime. Therefor the statement is false.

Physicist
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3's a prime
5's a prime
7's a prime
9 is experimental error
11's a prime
13's a prime
...

Engineer
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3's a prime
5's a prime
7's a prime
9's a prime
11's a prime
13's a prime
...


:P

Any engineers in the crowd? (or physicists?)
 

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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2005, 10:16:59 AM »
I don't get what you're trying to say about engineers, hooman. <_<
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2005, 10:34:23 AM »
ditto >_>

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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2005, 10:36:23 AM »
zigzag, shall we strap him to a wall and make him talk?
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2005, 01:51:37 PM »
/me gets his bazooka ready!
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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2005, 02:14:00 PM »
yes. i'll get the ducttape!

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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2005, 02:50:08 PM »
ck get the mod stick ready, its clobbering time
I am the nincompoop, I eat atomic bombs for breakfest, fusion bombs for lunch, and anti-matter bombs for dinner

I just hope they don't explode

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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2005, 03:17:01 PM »
ok im lost? the point of this was?..

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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2005, 03:23:04 PM »
to get us all confused ?
There can be Only one. Wipe Them out. All of Them.

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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2005, 05:55:23 PM »
It's a joke people. Lighten up.

And yes, it is kinda poking fun at engineers and physicists. For the physicist, it's their way of dealing with unexpected outcomes, and for the engineer, it's partly being wrong, and partly claiming what they expect. It also pokes fun at the lack of a formal proof procedure, where they just try a bunch of values and if it holds true for all the values they try, then they assume it holds for all values.

Geez, I feel liked I've just killed the joke now. :(
 

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« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2005, 01:10:48 AM »
that's what you get for poking fun at ingenious engineers (did you know that the word engineer is derrived from the word ingenious?)
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« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2005, 11:03:52 PM »
yea, im an engineer

no cool fusion for you!!
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« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2005, 11:57:37 PM »
I'm studying to become a chemecal engineer with a focus on biomedical engineering

I should double major in environmental engineering, there's a two course difference
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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2005, 08:17:47 AM »
...And the lawyer locked the door and asked, "What do you want them to be?" and sued Hooman for 8 billion dollars.  :P  
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