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<blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 4189565" data-attributes="member: 39815">Here's how I heard it:The king called in an engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist, and told them, &quot;My subjects are having a hard time making enough to eat. I need you to find a way to milk a cow more efficiently. Come back in a week.&quot;A week later, the engineer is brought before the king. &quot;Sire, I looked and looked, through every book I had, and nowhere could I find the specifications for building a cow-milking machine. I'm sorry, I have failed you.&quot;*&quot;Fine,&quot; says the king, &quot;bring in the mathematician.&quot; The mathematician arrives, and says, &quot;Sire, I have not devised a way to milk a cow more efficiently. However,&quot; he says, triumphantly, &quot;I have proven that, given the existence of a cow, it can be milked.&quot;The king glares at him, and says, &quot;Take him away! Bring me the physicist!&quot; The physicist comes before the king, and excitedly proclaims, &quot;Sire, I have solved your problem! I have found a way to milk a cow more efficiently!&quot; &quot;Please, tell me how,&quot; says the king. The physicist says, &quot;First, we assume the case of a spherical cow...&quot;I don't have any comment on the thread topic, I've just always liked this joke.* I should point out that this is how a physicist tells the joke; others may tell it somewhat differently.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="occam, post: 4189565, member: 39815"] Here's how I heard it: [I]The king called in an engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist, and told them, "My subjects are having a hard time making enough to eat. I need you to find a way to milk a cow more efficiently. Come back in a week." A week later, the engineer is brought before the king. "Sire, I looked and looked, through every book I had, and nowhere could I find the specifications for building a cow-milking machine. I'm sorry, I have failed you."* "Fine," says the king, "bring in the mathematician." The mathematician arrives, and says, "Sire, I have not devised a way to milk a cow more efficiently. However," he says, triumphantly, "I have proven that, given the existence of a cow, it can be milked." The king glares at him, and says, "Take him away! Bring me the physicist!" The physicist comes before the king, and excitedly proclaims, "Sire, I have solved your problem! I have found a way to milk a cow more efficiently!" "Please, tell me how," says the king. The physicist says, "First, we assume the case of a spherical cow..."[/I] I don't have any comment on the thread topic, I've just always liked this joke. * I should point out that this is how a physicist tells the joke; others may tell it somewhat differently. ;) [/QUOTE]

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