{"id":3310811,"date":"2006-02-14T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2006\/02\/14\/Several-students-were-asked\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:37:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:37:45","slug":"Several-students-were-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3310811","title":{"rendered":"Several students were asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/horsewithnobunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/3310811\/'>Review<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>Several students were asked the following problem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    Prove that all odd integers are prime.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n    Well, the first student to try to do this was a math student.  Hey<br \/>\nsays &#8220;hmmm&#8230;  Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, and by<br \/>\ninduction, we have that all the odd integers are prime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    Of course, there are some jeers from some of his friends.  The<br \/>\nphysics student then said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure of the validity of your proof,<br \/>\nbut I think I&#8217;ll try to prove it by experiment.&#8221; He continues, &#8220;Well, 1<br \/>\nis prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is &#8230;  uh, 9 is an<br \/>\nexperimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime&#8230;  Well, it seems that<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    The third student to try it was the engineering student, who<br \/>\nresponded, &#8220;Well, actually, I&#8217;m not sure of your answer either.  Let&#8217;s<br \/>\nsee&#8230;  1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is &#8230;, 9 is<br \/>\n&#8230;, well if you approximate, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime&#8230;<br \/>\nWell, it does seem right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n    Not to be outdone, the computer science student comes along<br \/>\nand says &#8220;Well, you two sort&#8217;ve got the right idea, but you&#8217;d end up<br \/>\ntaking too long doing it.  I&#8217;ve just whipped up a program to REALLY go<br \/>\nand prove it&#8230;&#8221;  He goes over to his terminal and runs his program.<br \/>\nReading the output on the screen he says, &#8220;1 is prime, 1 is prime, 1<br \/>\nis prime, 1 is prime&#8230;.&#8221;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review Several students were asked the following problem: Prove that all odd integers are prime. Well, the first student to try to do this was a math student. Hey says &#8220;hmmm&#8230; Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3310811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[400569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}