Several scientists were asked to prove that all odd integers higher than 2 are prime.
Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, and by induction - every odd integer higher than 2 is a prime.
Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is a prime. Just to be sure, try several randomly chosen numbers: 17 is a prime, 23 is a prime...
Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an approximation to a prime, 11 is a prime,...
Programmer (reading the output on the screen): 3 is a prime, 3 is a prime, 3 a is prime, 3 is a prime....
Biologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 -- results have not arrived yet,...
Psychologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime but tries to suppress it,...
Chemist (or Dan Quayle): What's a prime?
Politician: "Some numbers are prime.. but the goal is to create a kinder, gentler society where all numbers are prime... "
Programmer: "Wait a minute, I think I have an algorithm from Knuth on finding prime numbers... just a little bit longer, I've found the last bug... no, that's not it... ya know, I think there may be a compiler bug here - oh, did you want IEEE-998.0334 rounding or not? - was that in the spec? - hold on, I've almost got it - I was up all night working on this program, ya know... now if management would just get me that new workstation that just came out, I'd be done by now... etc., etc. ..."
(Two is the oddest prime of all, because it's the only one that's even!)
In the 'prime'
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mysticvirgo67
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In the 'prime'
"People don't need restore. They just need recovery...and the occasional hard boot"
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"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
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Re: In the 'prime'
Ok! I got it! the Answer is..."Low battery"!
Re: In the 'prime'
geeze you would think a nuke has gone off in the forums or something.. 
The best acceleration you can get on a Mac is 9.8ms^2
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mysticvirgo67
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Re: In the 'prime'
Hard to go driving when wife rolls eyes every time it is mentioned LOL
"People don't need restore. They just need recovery...and the occasional hard boot"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
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mysticvirgo67
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Re: In the 'prime'
Yeah I noticed tht too... apparantly there are only four actively posting memebers, you and Andrew and myself and Freebe
"People don't need restore. They just need recovery...and the occasional hard boot"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
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mysticvirgo67
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Re: In the 'prime'
and if ny of us happen to have a few days of other than posting to do at home, the forums go blANk
"People don't need restore. They just need recovery...and the occasional hard boot"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
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ACalcutt
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Re: In the 'prime'
ya....thay have always been that way...you just raised our expectations by posting so much the last few months 
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mysticvirgo67
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Re: In the 'prime'
Awwww.... Thanks! i think . I'll try to keep posting as can.. is halloween season and I have been spending alot of time getting my first ever yard haunt together. One addiction at a time LOl
I'll try to keep posting as can.. is halloween season and I have been spending alot of time getting my first ever yard haunt together. One addiction at a time LOl"People don't need restore. They just need recovery...and the occasional hard boot"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
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cool...we would love to see some pics when your done 
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mysticvirgo67
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Re: In the 'prime'
they are on any one of a dozen SDcards... lol....
"People don't need restore. They just need recovery...and the occasional hard boot"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"
"The maximum acceleration of a PC is limited only by the amount of explosives used"