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Mathematician: "We should use proof by induction, I can show 3 is a prime number by listing all of it's factors, and then from there I can show that 2n + 1 is prime ..."
Scientist: "What? that doesn't make any sense. What we need is experimental data. Let's collect enough points, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. Six points should do, now look, the general trend is that all of them are prime. We have one anomaly, but it's probably just caused by a random fluctuation in..."
Engineer: "Nah, all this theory is pointless, we only need to know if they are prime in the real world. Let's just take a few and see if they work for our purposes. 3 - prime, 5 - prime, 7 - prime, 9 - nearly prime, 11 - prime, surely that's good enough."
Computer scientist: "While you lot have been wasting your time arguing I have been writing a program that will do all the work for us"
All of the students gather around the CS's computer and watch as he presses go.
Computer: 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime
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Isn't the whole point of this thread, and the whole international debate, that it is disputable?