SATICHE - 0009

What is Two + Two?

To a mathematician it's 4
To a physicist it's somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5
To a programmer it's 3.99999
To a statistician it's about 4, with a probability greater than 90%
To an engineer it's 5, but we'd better call it 8 to be on the safe side
To a sales engineer, "To you, three"
To a test engineer, "0.25, but that's close enough"
To the DEC service department, "We're not telling you"
To Sir Clive, "1,000,000,000,000"
To a trainee accountant, "Four"
To a qualified accountant, "Approximately four"
To a consultant accountant, "As an initial estimate I would suggest somewhere between three and five"
To a senior consultant, "Hmmm, a very good question. Tell me, what sort of figure did you have in mind?"