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Off Topic => Test/Spam Forum => Topic started by: Hooman on October 10, 2005, 03:15:30 AM
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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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I don't get what you're trying to say about engineers, hooman. <_<
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ditto >_>
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zigzag, shall we strap him to a wall and make him talk?
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/me gets his bazooka ready!
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yes. i'll get the ducttape!
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ck get the mod stick ready, its clobbering time
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ok im lost? the point of this was?..
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to get us all confused ?
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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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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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yea, im an engineer
no cool fusion for you!!
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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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...And the lawyer locked the door and asked, "What do you want them to be?" and sued Hooman for 8 billion dollars. :P