Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / Several students were asked to prove \ | that all odd integers are prime. | | | | The first student to try to do this was | | a math student. "Hmmm... Well, 1 is | | prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, and by | | induction, we have that all the odd | | integers are prime." | | | | The second student to try was a man of | | physics who commented, "I'm not sure of | | the validity of your proof, but I think | | I'll try to prove it by experiment." He | | continues, "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is | | prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is... | | uh, 9 is... uh, 9 is an experimental | | error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime... | | Well, it seems that you're right." | | | | The third student to try it was the | | engineering student, who responded, | | "Well, to be honest, actually, I'm not | | sure of your answer either. Let's | | see... 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is | | prime, 7 is prime, 9 is... uh, 9 is... | | well, if you approximate, 9 is prime, | | 11 is prime, 13 is prime... Well, it | | does seem right." | | | | Not to be outdone, the computer science | | student comes along and says "Well, you | | two sort've got the right idea, but | | you'll end up taking too long! I've | | just whipped up a program to REALLY go | | and prove it." He goes over to his | | terminal and runs his program. Reading | | the output on the screen he says, "1 is | | prime, 1 is prime, 1 is prime, 1 is | \ prime..." / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;