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1:31 AM
Apr 23 at 1:08, by Sciborg
You two are some of the smartest high schoolers I've ever talked to, and the only reason you doubt yourself is because you surround yourself with other very intelligent people. Compared to the general population of high schoolers, North and Bobble, you are brilliant.
no longer technically valid. I'm not a high schooler anymore
 
1:57 AM
@bobble and the birb is very proud <3
 
@Sciborg on a scale of one to unicorn in a ruffle coat, how proud?
 
2:15 AM
unicorn in a pink ruffle coat
 
2:44 AM
draw please
 
 
14 hours later…
4:47 PM
i'm bad at drawing horses
 
 
6 hours later…
10:25 PM
is perfect anyways
 
10:48 PM
@Deusovi Welp, I took that Zepto quiz thing today
You know that one with the study guide with the questions from the Putnam exam?
 
10:59 PM
Yeah it was a prank
I got literally trolled by my math teacher
Question 1 was analyzing like given the graph of f(x), analyze if f(a) exists as a a limit or something
 
yeah figures
 
And you were given four statements that you had to match:
1) f(x) exists, but f(a) exists, so the limit does not exist (the graph had just the squiggle)
2) f(a) exists and only f(a) exists (and it was just a dot)
3) f(x) exists and f(a) exists but cannot be evaluated because there is an elephant in the way
4) The limit does not exist because f(x) and f(a) literally does not exist (it's just an empty graph)
 
amazing
 
AND I didn't realize it was a prank until the last question
I was sort of skimming the questions but I was like
 
i should use "it cannot be done because there is an elephant in the way" more often in proofs
 
11:03 PM
"Is this a trick question? Can the limit exist if it's just a dot? What happens if there's no graph?"
@Deusovi I'll send you the photo if I can, that one was REALLY funny
There was literally the graph and then an elephant obscuring part of the shape of the curve
Hence, there's an elephant plushie in his room named "Zepto" that a former student gave him in honor of that
Another question was: Evaluate the following limit:
lim(infinity-->8) of infinity
And one of the choices was "indeterminate, because we cannot determine whether or not the infinity was rotated counter-clock wise or clock-wise" and then as an example of the rotation he flipped like a seven around
Another question asked if any of the following were convergent and the choices were:
I) Robert Frost, a branch, and a road (a road not taken, the path diverges)
2) Pictures of tectonic plates, I assumed it meant like divergent plates
3) a_0,..._a_1,... __a_2,... ____a_3 (they kept getting further away from each other)
 
that's beautiful
 
Okay, and the thing is, I didn't just get trolled by my math teacher, I got trolled by all of the previous students who him and were like "Yeah this test is impossible"
Hence the whole Putnam Question Study Guide
OH and for that convergent question, the answer choices (because it was asking which of the following from that list is convergent) were:

All of the above
Most of the above
Some of the above
A statistical significant portion of the above
Maybe some of the above
None of the above
Less than none of the above
Way less than none of the above
I should just say that in my proofs or "select all that apply" questions
"A statistically significant portion of the above is correct"
 
i do really hope you can show us the full thing at some point
 
I hope so too, it was absolutely hilarious
My tablemate started to write the lyrics to "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the front page and math teacher is like "Did you just rickroll me?" and he's like "I should TOTALLY do that next year!"
One of the other question was on like a u-substitution, but the answer choices were like "lim (u-->2) of (something with u)/(something without you)" and he was like "Yeah that's a joke on the band U2 and they made a song called with or without u, so, like yeah, with u /without u... you're too young for that joke to make sense"
God I love my math teacher
After the "quiz" was done, my teacher was like "okay, well, we have to be consistent on what we say to the other periods" so we wrote up on the board like our list of what we'll say for each question and they were

1) Polar limits
2) Factorialth root
3) Beth numbers (I guess infinities beyond aleph or something???)
4) ? (We left it for second period to make up something)
5) "Only doable question" - at least we knew what the symbols meant
6) Fill in the blank proof
Anyhow Deus, are you free like tomorrow/Friday to help out with actual proofs? (we're doing convergent proofs (N epsilon) and delta-epsilon proofs)
 
11:19 PM
sure, i should be free!
 
Thanks! I'm going to head out- I have to work on my college essay :/
 
alright, see ya!
 

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