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A virus walks into a bar...
A university asks several departments to come up with a way to prove all odd numbers are prime.
The Math department said: "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, the rest is proven through Induction."
The Physics department said: "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is prime and so on..."
The Computer Science department said: "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime...."
I'm not trying to be a dick, but 1 is rarely ever prime...2 is though.
An English student is writing a dissertation on the book "Life of Pi" (which is great and you should all read) and wants to write about the mathematical symbolism in the book. However, he does not know much about pi, so he decides to ask his friend in the math department what pi is. The mathematician replies, "Pi is an irrational number exactly equal to the circumference of any circle divided by its diameter. It equals 3.141593 to 6 decimal places." This is too complicated for the English major, so he goes to a physicist. The physicist tells him, "Pi is this number that is 3.14 to two decimal places and is about 22/7. It is useful for calculating volumes of spheres, areas of circles and so on." This is still a bit much, so looking for one final opinion, the English student goes to see an engineer. "What's pi?" he asks. "Oh," replies the engineer, "it's about 3. We call it 10 to be safe."