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I heard a version that went

Mathematician: “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, therefore by induction we know all odd numbers are prime.”

Physicist: “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 must be experimental error.”

Computer scientist: “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime …”



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