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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (764559)1/18/2014 7:40:02 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 1572145
 
Hi J_F_Shepard Re that story about the "young college student was working hard in an upper-level math course". I looked it up. Actually it was a PhD candidate and it took him about a week to do the problems, he'd assumed they'd been assigned as homework. By the time he got them done, they were late and he asked for permission to turn them in late.

The problems were in statistics and were not important ones. Few mathematicians cared much about them. Certainly Einstein never worked on them, LOL.

See Snopes.com:
www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp

-- Carl
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