Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Working with the set of real numbers (was: Finding size of Variable) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 03:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <8e4c1ab1-e65d-483f-ad9d-6933ae2052c3@googlegroups.com> <53153e66$0$24931$e4fe514c@dreader36.news.xs4all.nl> <531688b1$0$25064$e4fe514c@dreader37.news.xs4all.nl> <53169cd9$0$2923$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <5316d7a0$0$2923$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <53176225$0$29987$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1394076850 191 24.118.110.103 (6 Mar 2014 03:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 03:34:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:67917 On 2014-03-06, Roy Smith wrote: > In article <53176225$0$29987$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Physics is the fundamental science, at least according to the >> physicists, and Real Soon Now they'll have a Theory Of Everything, >> something small enough to print on a tee-shirt, which will explain >> everything. At least in principle. > > A mathematician, a chemist, and a physicist are arguing the nature of > prime numbers. The chemist says, "All odd numbers are prime. Look, I > can prove it. Three is prime. Five is prime. Seven is prime". The > mathematician says, "That's nonsense. Nine is not prime". The > physicist looks at him and says, "Hmmmm, you may be right, but eleven > is prime, and thirteen is prime. It appears that within the limits of > experimental error, all odd number are indeed prime!" Assuming spherical odd numbers in a vacuum on a frictionless surface, of course. -- Grant