In article <5317e640$0$29985$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:31:51 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > > > In article <53176225$0$29987$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > >> Physics is the fundamental science, at least according to the > >> physicists, and Real Soon Now they'll have a Theory Of Everything, > >> something small enough to print on a tee-shirt, which will explain > >> everything. At least in principle. > > > > A mathematician, a chemist, and a physicist are arguing the nature of > > prime numbers. The chemist says, "All odd numbers are prime. Look, I > > can prove it. Three is prime. Five is prime. Seven is prime". The > > mathematician says, "That's nonsense. Nine is not prime". The > > physicist looks at him and says, "Hmmmm, you may be right, but eleven is > > prime, and thirteen is prime. It appears that within the limits of > > experimental error, all odd number are indeed prime!" > > They ask a computer programmer to adjudicate who is right, so he writes a > program to print out all the primes: > > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > ... So, a mathematician, a biologist, and a physicist are watching a house. The physicist says, "It appears to be empty". Sometime later, a man and a woman go into the house. Shortly after that, the man and the woman come back out, with a child. The biologist says, "They must have reproduced". The mathematician says, "If one more person goes into the house, it'll be empty again". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
