Scott Gardner wrote:
>
> I'll go ahead and add my engineer joke to the mix:
>
> An engineer and a mathematician work together, and are always
> arguing as to which of them is the better problem-solver. Finally,
> their boss gets tired of all the bickering, and decides to end it
> once and for all. He calls the two women into the conference room,
> and says "Here's a problem for you both. If you were to drop a
> chicken off the top of the Empire State Building, how long would it
> take to hit the ground?"
But chickens can fly, can't they?
> The mathematician is selected to go first.
> She fills up three chalkboards with equations, taking into account
> air resistance, the difference in gravity from the top of the
> building to the bottom, thermal updrafts, the surface area of the
> chicken's wings, atmoshperic pressure, and all sorts of various and
> sundry parameters. Two hours later, she comes up with her answer.
> The boss is suitably impressed.
> Now it's the engineer's turn. She walks up, erases the chalkboards,
> and begins -- "Assuming a round, frictionless chicken...."
Ah, a frozen chicken!
PaulH
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