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[Humor] prime numbers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gif)
Wed Jan 28 18:56:23 2004

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A mathemetician says, "One is prime, three is prime, five is prime,
seven is prime.  Therefore all odd numbers are prime."

A statistician says, "One is prime, three is prime, five is prime,
seven is prime, nine is sampling error, eleven is prime.  Therefore
all odd numbers are prime."

An engineer says, "One is prime, three is prime, five is prime,
seven is prime, nine is prime, eleven is prime, thirteen is prime,
fifteen is prime.  Therefore all odd numbers are prime."
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