Stop here if you've seen this before.
Many years ago, when I was in college, a group of professors supposedly got 
together to discuss the proposition that all odd numbers are prime.

The first to report his results was the math professor who said:
1 is prime
3 is prime
therefore by induction, all odds are prime.

Next came the physics prof, who said:
1 is prime
3 is prime
5 is prime
7 is prime
oops, 9 is not prime
11 is prime
I can conclude that within experimental error, all odds are prime.

Then came the philosophy teacher:
1 is prime
3 is prime
5 is prime
7 is prime
9 is not
Hmmmm, is 1 REALLY prime?

Finally, the Economics professor had a go:
1 is prime
3 is prime
5 is prime
7 is prime
9 is prime
11 is prime
Yep, all odds are prime.

DJ
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