Date: 15 Apr 1997 03:55:38 -0700
From: "G Horne" <g_horne@sttheresa.pvt.k12.ca.us>
Subject: FWD>the one about the engin
To: "TI ALUMS AND STAFF" <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>,
Mail*Link(r) SMTP FWD>the one about the engineer, the
scientist, and the
If you laugh, you're a nerd...
...unfortunately, I laughed....
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Date: 4/14/97 8:35 PM
From: Richard D. Bowdon
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The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with
that?"
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Engineers think that equations approximate the real world. Scientists
think that the real world approximates equations. Mathematicians are
unable to make the connection...
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A Mathematician, a Biologist, and a Physicist are sitting in a street
cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the
other side of the street. First they see two people going into the
house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming
out of the house. The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate.".
The Biologists conclusion: "They have reproduced". The Mathematician:
"If now exactly 1 person enters the house then it will be empty again."
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An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture
with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest
possible amount of fence. The engineer is first. He herds the sheep
into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A
circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best
solution." The physicist is next. She creates a circular fence of
infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight
around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular
fence around the herd." The mathematician is last. After giving the
problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and
then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside!"
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In some foreign country a priest, a lawyer and an engineer are about
to be guillotined. The priest puts his head on the block, they pull
the rope and nothing happens -- he declares that he's been saved by
divine intervention -- so he's let go. The lawyer is put on the
block, and again the rope doesn't release the blade, he claims he
can't be executed twice for the same crime and he is set free too.
They grab the engineer and shove his head into the guillotine, he
looks up at the release mechanism and says, "Wait a minute, I see
your problem......"
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