An assemblage of the greatest minds in the world was gathered at a 
conference to solve the age-old and profound question:

                          "What is 2 + 2 ?"
                          -----------------

Here were the responses from the experts:

Accountant:  "2 + 2 = 4.45, with GST and PST included."

Lawyer:  Shuts all the doors and windows, glances back and forth, 
         then whispers, "Well what do you want it to be?"

Politician:  "What does the poll say?"

Doctor:  "I once memorized the answer before and I think it's 4.   Wait,
         or was that 1 + 3?  Nope, 3 + 1?  2 * 2?  Hmm, I'm not sure.
         Looks like I'll have to dig out the Medical Handbook.  Excuse
         me..."

Psychiatrist:  "The answer is negative 4 or positive 4 depending on
         your mood swing."

Physicist:  Goes and performs the most complicated calculations
          using the Theory of Relativity, and announces:
          "2 + 2 = pi plus or minus pi."

Civil Engineer:  "About 5."
          (And this is why all engineers now have to wear an iron ring.)

Electrical Engineer:  "Where's my @#*  calculator? "

Mathematician:  Cogitates for a while, completely oblivious to the
          rest of the world, then returns with his hair all tangled up
          and declares, "I don't know the answer but I can prove that
          the solution exists and converges."

Chemist:  Goes and mixes solutions of red, green, and yellow together
          which results in a series of explosions; does some calculations
          and announces, "At room temperature, 2 + 2 = 3.1 plus or minus
          5 parts per million.  Hold on... that doesn't seem right...
          hmm..."

Biologist:  "The question doesn't make sense:  you can't cross two
          inorganic things together..."

Philosopher:  "Gentlemen, the question is not 'WHAT is 2 + 2' but 
          'WHY is 2 + 2' "

Archeologist:  "2 + 2 is... let me find out using carbon dating 
          technique."

Historian:  "Gentlemen, this is a historic moment.  We're on the 
          verge of making history   So what's the answer gonna be?" 
          (Everyone ignores him and goes on with the debate.)

Computer Programmer:  "This is a very difficult problem.  Let me 
          write a program to solve it."  He goes and writes a
          program and executes it.  The output reads:
          "2 + 2 is... Segmentation fault.  Core dump."

Windows 95 Programmer:  The program output reads:
          "2 + 2 is... Please wait..."

Unix Programmer:  Goes and writes a program called "2plus2" with the
          command syntax:
          2plus2 -n1 first_number -n2 second_number -o operation
          YY-pPq Y-r ! -st  output_format  Y-l landscape ! -p portrait
          Y-R round_up_digits  Y-l Yo ! n  optimization  Y-B Yb ! d ! x
          ! o   base_radix  Y-i$ iterations  Y-gYx ! y  graphic_output
          Y-fn filename  Y-t batch_job  Y-bp beep  Y-r randomize
          Y-g guess  Y-h hog_CPU  Y-a abort
          Upon execution, the output reads:
          "Bad command.  Not enough arguments."

Economist:  Draws a graph projection of the result over the 1985 -
          1999 period which looks like this:

                       10 +                   oooo    o
                          !           o      o    o oo o
                          !          o o    o      o    o
             sum (2+2)  5 +o     oo o   oooo
                          ! o   o  o
                          !  ooo
                        0 +---------+---------+---------+
                  Year:  '85       '90       '95       '99

          ** 1985-1999 World Projection of (2+2) Assuming
          ** Stable World Economy and 4.5% Annual Inflation Rate


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RESULT - answer awaiting...

ps- will you please provide correct answer!



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