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From cate3.osbunorth@xerox.com Sat May 19 12:34:49 1990
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From: cate3.osbunorth@xerox.com (Henry Cate III)
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Subject: Is nine prime?
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Organization: Xerox, Sunnyvale, CA
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Lawyers: one is prime, three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime,
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although there appears to be prima facie evidence that nine
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is not prime, there exists substantial precedent to indicate
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that nine should be considered prime. The following brief
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presents the case for nine's primeness ...
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Liberals: The fact that nine is not prime indicates a deprived
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cultural environment which can only be remedied by
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a federally funded cultural enrichment program.
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Computer programmers: one is prime, three is prime, five is prime,
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five is prime, five is prime, five is prime
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five is prime, five is prime, five is prime ....
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Bush: What's nine got against being prime? I'll bet it won't allow
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the pledge of allegiance to be said in our schools either.
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Richard Nixon: Put nine on the enemies list. I'm gonna get that number.
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Rec.humor poster: one is prime, one is prime, one is prime, one is prime
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Professor: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, and the rest are left as
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an exercise for the student.
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Computational linguist: 3 is an odd prime, 5 is an odd prime, 7 is an
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odd prime, 9 is a very odd prime, ...
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Computer Scientist: 10 prime, 11 prime, 101 prime...
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Chemist: 1 prime, 3 prime, 5 prime...hey, let's publish!
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Measure nontheorist: there are exactly as many odd numbers as primes
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(Euclid, Cantor), and exactly one even prime (namely 2), so
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there must be exactly one odd nonprime (namely 1).
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New Yorker: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is ... NONE OF YOUR
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DAMN BUSINESS!
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Programmer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 will be fixed in the
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next release, ...
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C programmer: 03 is prime, 05 is prime, 07 is prime, 09 is really 011
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which everyone knows is prime, ...
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BASIC programmer: What's a prime?
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COBOL programmer: What's an odd number?
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Henry Cate III
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Internet: cate3.osbunorth@Xerox.Com
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The founding fathers tried to set up a system where a man got a fair trial,
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not a system to let him get off on technicalities.
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