22 Jun
2011
22 Jun
'11
12:36 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: Calculators Re: Useless thread, RE:Religion, Re: Nazi System
Back in the late 80's in engineering school we had issues with the ever
expanding memory on scientific calculators (I used a Tandy PC-6) and how
people could dump enough information and equations to cheat on tests.
Professors at the time (some using very old HP calcs that were pre LCD) had
no idea you could dump lots of text and full equations into current models
of calculators.
Tony Duell wrote:
There are sevral (apocryphal) stories of students being told they can
'bring Feynman to the exam' (meaning, of course, the 3 read books or
equivalent) and somebody turning up with the Porfessor himself. Fromwhat
I've read, I could well believe that Feynman would go along with such a
stunt :-)
-tony FWIW, I've always felt that uou shpuld be
able to birng anything you
like
into an exam, apart from another person or a
communicatin device to
another person.
I was in an undergrad math class in the early 1980s, and the students
kept pestering the instructor about whether they could use this, that,
or the other thing on the exam. The instructor finally said that they
could use anything that they could carry into the room. One guy carried
in a grad student.