JimB's wonderful canonical jokes re: engineers reminded me of the oldie but goodie below:
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At a convention of the most gifted minds representing every discipline, each in turn were asked the following question:
"What is 2 * 2 ?"
The engineer produces a calculator, furiously taps hundreds of keys in mere seconds and triumphantly announces: "3.99999".
The physicist retires to his lab where he performs 15 correlative tests and returns with the pronouncement: "the answer lies between 3.99 and 4.01".
The mathematician cogitates in the mental bliss only another mathematician can appreciate, and then announces with glee: "Though I do not have the answer yet, I can tell you, an answer exists!?
The logician frowns and instantly retorts: "Any answer is meaningless until you first define 2 * 2 more precisely."
And the accountant's response?..
He closes all the doors and windows, then looking around carefully he asks with a smile: "What do you want the answer to be?"
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At a convention of the most gifted minds representing every discipline, each in turn were asked the following question:
"What is 2 * 2 ?"
The engineer produces a calculator, furiously taps hundreds of keys in mere seconds and triumphantly announces: "3.99999".
The physicist retires to his lab where he performs 15 correlative tests and returns with the pronouncement: "the answer lies between 3.99 and 4.01".
The mathematician cogitates in the mental bliss only another mathematician can appreciate, and then announces with glee: "Though I do not have the answer yet, I can tell you, an answer exists!?
The logician frowns and instantly retorts: "Any answer is meaningless until you first define 2 * 2 more precisely."
And the accountant's response?..
He closes all the doors and windows, then looking around carefully he asks with a smile: "What do you want the answer to be?"