From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!malcolm
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Math Test - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.478
Posted: Sun Aug  1 03:26:17 1982
Received: Mon Aug  2 00:53:50 1982

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pur-ee!malcolm    Aug  1 03:17:00 1982

I'm sure all of you have seen a version of the test that ask
you to do extremely unreasonable things....Eg. Medicine: You
have ten minutes to sterilize your pocket knife and perform
an appendectamy on yourself....

My favorite question has been the Math question.  It
usually goes something like this:
Math:  Develop a numbering system such that 'e' and 'pi' are
integers.

Is this really so unreasonable?  I can't decide based on the
Math that I have had.

					Malcolm Slaney
					Purdue EE Dept.