To: general_re
A mathematician examines all numbers up to 99 and clams all numbers are less than 100.
Physicist divides 60 by 1,2,3,4,5,6 and concludes 60 is divisible by all numbers. Then because of shortage of funding, a check of 10,12,15,20,30 is made for confirmation.
An engineer checks, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime and concludes that all numbers are prime (9 must be an experimental error.)
A computer scientist concludes 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime....
12 posted on
12/31/2003 3:25:25 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: sauropod
read later.
13 posted on
12/31/2003 3:42:41 PM PST by
sauropod
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