Engineer, Mathematician, and Phycicist
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist went to the races one Saturday
and laid their money down.
Commiserating in the bar after the race, the engineer says, "I don't
understand why I lost all my money. I measured all the horses and
calculated their strength and mechanical advantage and figured out how fast
they could run..."
The physicist interrupted him: "...but you didn't take individual variations
into account. I did a statistical analysis of their previous performances
and bet on the horses with the highest probability of winning..."
"So if you're so hot why are you broke?" asked the engineer.
But before the argument can grow, the mathematician takes out his pipe and
they get a glimpse of his well-fattened wallet. Obviously here was a man
who knows something about horses. They both demanded to know his secret.
Well," he says, between puffs on the pipe, "first I assumed all the horses
were identical and spherical..."
Nothing but Jokes by
Nauman Faridi
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