Date:  21 January 1983 16:26 mst
From:  Lippard.DSOP (James J. Lippard)
Subject:  Miscellaneous Digest V2 #6
Reply-To:  misc
To:   (Miscellaneous Mailing List)

Miscellaneous Digest                              Volume 2 : Issue 6

Today's topics:
		Odd Numbers are Prime (2 msgs)
		Ham
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[The following two messages are from the Physics mailing list.]
Date: 18 Jan 83 16:47:23-PST (Tue)
To: physics@sri-unix
From: CAD.tektronix!tekmdp!stevenm@Berkeley.arpa
Article-I.D.: tekmdp.1692

Ok, I can't stand it anymore. Here is my humble submission to the
engineer/scientist/mathemetician joke genre:

Someone asks a mathematician, a physicist, an electrical engineer,
and a computer scientist to prove the all odd numbers are prime.

Mathematician: Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, and 7 is prime,
          therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime.

Physicist: Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is
          experimental error, and 11 is prime, therefore, by
          experimentation, all odd numbers are prime.

EE: Well, um ah, I guess 1 is prime, and 3 is prime, and 5 is prime, and
          7 is prime and, uh, 9 is prime, and 11 is prime - hell, all
          odd numbers is prime!

Computer Scientist: Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime,
          5 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime, 5 is prime ......

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5 is prime,
S. McGeady
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Date: 19 Jan 83 10:43:17-PST (Wed)
To: physics@sri-unix
From: decvax!yale-com!leichter@Berkeley.arpa
Article-I.D.: yale-com.677

For mathematicians, it should be "1 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 5 is a
prime - ah, they're all prime." (One is a special case, two is
interesting, three is the same as "all".)

Also:

Sociology major:  2 is a prime, 4 is a prime, 6 is a prime, ...

(it's been pointed out to me that the only thing wrong with this proof
is that 2 is indeed a prime.)

High school math teacher: "Now, class, watch this proof carefully; it
will be on the exam.  1 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime - no
questions 'till the proof is done - 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime - I
said NO QUESTIONS 'TILL THE PROOF IS DONE - ..."
                                                           -- Jerry
                                        decvax!yale-comix!leichter
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Date:     21 January 1983 1510-mst
From:     Ron Harvey
Subject:  Ham

Subject: First Chimp into Space Dies

Ham, the chimp that went into space before Alan Shepard, died
yesterday at the North Carolina Zoological Park, where he had
lived for the last 2.5 years.  An autopsy on the chimp, who made
a sub orbital flight aboard a Redstone rocket on 31 January, 1961,
will be performed at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, DC.


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