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Anything sounds trivial if you start the sentence with '(S)he just ...'. And you say that as though a few dozen bright students didn't fail to accomplish the sa

• Camillo 13y ago
  They failed because the instructions are incorrect and cannot be parsed (assuming, as is reasonable, that they were given the instructions seen in the blog post). It's quite possible that the only student who succeeded did so because she misread the first sentence in just the right way. Note that the assignment has "the first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall", while the student's version repeats "halfway between a point" twice, which makes the sentence parseable. What really surprises me is that nobody reported the mistake to the professor.
  • yohui 13y ago
    > What really surprises me is that nobody reported the mistake to the professor. I think someone else in the class did: > Michelle has asserted that the statement, as it appears in the Pace catalogue, only makes sense when an additional phrase is added. Which linked to: http://cmuems.com/2013/a/michelle/08/29/quadrangle/ http://cmuems.com/2013/a/michelle/08/29/quadrangle/