Fingers
Well-Known Member
Several people are asked to prove that all odd integers greater than 2 are prime.
- Tenured mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime. Ha! A counterexample.
- Untenured mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime so by induction, all subsequent odd integers are prime.
- Statistician: Lets verify this sone several randomly selected odd numbers, say, 23, 47, and 83.
- Computer scientist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, segmentation fault?
- Computer programmer: 3 is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime
- Physicist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an experiemntal error, 11 is prime
- Mechanical engineer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is approximately prime, 11 is prime
- Civil engineer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime
- Biologist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is still awaiting results
- Psychologist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime but suppresses it, 11 is prime
- Economist: 2 is prime, 4 is prime, 6 is prime
- Politician: Shouldnt the goal really be to create a greater society where all numbers are prime?
- Sarah Palin: Whats a prime?
