Tony Duell wrote:
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.
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