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Ball Bearings
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were being interviewed.
As part of the process, they were given 2 brass ball bearings, left
alone for a while, then asked what they had done.

Mathematician: "I haven't done anything with them, but I've some
theories about 2-ness."
Physicist: "I've tried to balance one on the other, and have some
ideas about friction."
Engineer: "Er... they broke."


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Black Sheep
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on a train heading
north, and had just crossed the border into Scotland.

The engineer looked out of the window and said "Look! Scottish sheep
are black!"
The physicist said, "No, no. Some Scottish sheep are black."
The mathematician looked irritated. "There is at least one field,
containing at least one sheep, of which at least one side is black."

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variants:

The statistician : "It's not significant. We only know there's one
black sheep"
The computer scientist : "Oh, no! A special case!"

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