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11-16-2007, 12:57 AM
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Re: Is one wrong answer more wrong?
Depends. If someone tells us to go up two floors from the second floor to pick up our checks and I end up on floor 5 and you end up on floor -63, you're going to have a harder time getting to the right place than I. But if we're taking a math test, we both get the problem wrong.
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11-16-2007, 01:34 AM
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Re: Is one wrong answer more wrong?
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4 ~ 5 4 !~ -63 QED [/ QUOTE ] It depends on how you define the "~" operator. In some applications it might make sense to say that 5 is more right than 4, but if you want to speak strictly about mathematics, both answers are equally wrong. In a mathematics course, if the correct answer is pi, for instance, and a student writes 3.141592653 for an answer, then that answer is wrong, although that answer is more than fine for almost any conceivable engineering application.
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11-16-2007, 04:33 AM
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Re: Is one wrong answer more wrong?
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[ QUOTE ] 4 ~ 5 [/ QUOTE ] 4 is equal to 5 for extremely large values of 4. lol [/ QUOTE ] i was thinking more along the lines of "4 has the same distribution as 5"
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11-16-2007, 05:22 AM
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Re: Is one wrong answer more wrong?
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[ QUOTE ] 4 ~ 5 4 !~ -63 QED [/ QUOTE ] It depends on how you define the "~" operator. In some applications it might make sense to say that 5 is more right than 4, but if you want to speak strictly about mathematics, both answers are equally wrong. In a mathematics course, if the correct answer is pi, for instance, and a student writes 3.141592653 for an answer, then that answer is wrong, although that answer is more than fine for almost any conceivable engineering application. [/ QUOTE ] You have ruint teh funny.
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