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Old 25-11-2011, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
I recall a maths tutor at Uni who had a psycho-pathological dislike of one of the undergrads. An assignment required a mathematical proof which was correctly handled by the student.

The tutor being unable to find any flaws in the proof marked down the student for using a biro that produced excessively thick lines.

Same principles apply.

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Steven
Sounds like my loony physics lab tutors …
One of them got violent whenever someone made a mistake. He was seemingly in practice for the Olympic 'Discus' throw and he exercised his right arm frequently on undergraduate exercise/lab experiment books.

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