You may use your class notes and Feynman

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by mindhacker • 17 years ago

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quizbiz• 17 years ago

bloody briliant, a much better exam hack than pointless puns.

henryprecheur• 17 years ago

Funny but sound like a urban legend.

buugs• 17 years ago

If it is true I'm sure that the student would have gotten at least a passing grade if was willing to risk using Feynman.

ruddzw• 17 years ago

Or would have no chance of passing without him.

Since it's an open-book exam, it's likely going to take a lot of thoughtful work.

abecedarius2• 17 years ago

Not necessarily. Tests were on the honor system at Caltech (and I suppose still are). You typically took them in your dorm room.

CamperBob• 17 years ago

So there's only one class at the entire school, called "Google 101"?

sethg• 17 years ago

This is the sort of hack that Feynman himself would have pulled, back when he was an undergraduate.

kqr2• 17 years ago

Even if they had explicitly written Feynman's Lectures on Physics on the exam, the students could have asked Feynman to give a special lecture which happens to cover all of the exam material.

varjag• 17 years ago

Half an hour, why it took him so long?

Semiapies2• 17 years ago

Obviously, he made sure to use good penmanship.

Semiapies2• 17 years ago

He can't have been the only person in the class who had the thought. I would have; I just wouldn't have dared.

True or not, funny story.

You may use your class notes and Feynman

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