Math joke #17

Typical answers to the question “are all odd numbers primes”?

Physician: 3 is correct, 5 is correct, 7 is correct, 9 is a measuring error, 11 is correct, 13 is correct.

Informatician: writes a program to check, and the result is: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 9 is prime, 9 is prime … STACK OVERFLOW.

Confused freshman to mathematics: Let p be a prime. Then p is not divisible by 2, hence p is odd. Q.e.d.

Engineer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime when approximated, 11 is prime, 13 is prime …

Politician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 will be prime after the next election …

Jurist: 9 is prime … there we have our precedent.

Philosophe: Why don’t we call all odd numbers primes and all primes odd numbers?

Statistician: 100% of the sample 5, 13, 37, 41 and 53 are prime. The data highly suggests that all odd numbers are prime.

Logician: When you explain to me what you mean by “prime” and “odd number”, we can continue to discuss.

Theologician: 3 is a prime and that’s enough for me.

Multiculturist: Yuck! Who are you that you come to split numbers into groups?