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- From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Real? Mathmaticians
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 19:10:04 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- MATHMO TEST 15/03/1990 (version 0.01)
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- These questions were compiled by Gavin Matthews (GRM11@UK.AC.CAM.PHX) with the
- assistance of Bob Dowling (RJD4) and others. Any offence caused by this file,
- to any person living, dead or mathmo, is entirely deliberate. Any suggestions
- are, of course, welcome - especially those which are physically possible.
-
- Answer strictly one of "YES" or "NO" to each of the following questions. Count
- the number of distinct questions to which you answer "YES".
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- GAMES AND PUZZLES
- : Can you solve Rubik's Cube unassisted?
- : Have you ever made a model of a dodecahedron?
- : Can you play Go?
- : Can you play Othello?
- : Have you ever beaten a computer at Chess?
- : Have you ever played Conway's Game of Life?
- : ...by hand?
- : Do you know the probability of a 4-3-3-3 split in Bridge?
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- MANNERISMS
- : Have you used the word "trivial" more than twice in the last 24 hours?
- : Would you answer "Do you know the time?" with "Yes"?
- : Would you answer "Is it still raining or has it stopped?" with "Yes"?
- : When people make grammatical errors do you correct them?
- : If someone accused you of "pedanticism" would you reply "pedantry"?
- : Would you wear a jumper with (an approximation to) the Mandelbrot Set on it?
- : Would you say "There exists" rather than "There is"?
- : Do you drink more than 5 cups of coffee or tea per day?
- : Would you talk about "n objects, where n is ..." ?
- : Do you make excruciatingly bad puns?
- : Have you ever corrected a lecturer?
- : ...three times in the same lecture?
- : Do you usually wear an anorak?
- : Would you introduce yourself as a "mathmo"?
- : _Are_ you introduced as a "mathmo"?
- : Do you have strong views on the least natural number?
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- EXPERIENCE
- : Have you ever plotted (an approximation to) the Mandelbrot Set?
- : Have you ever calculated (an approximation to) pi or e on a computer?
- : Would you know what to do with Napier's bones?
- : Does the word "plagiarise" make you think of Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky?
- : Do you, or did you read Mathematics?
- : Have you read "Goedel, Escher, Bach"?
- : Do you play a musical instrument?
- : Have you ever programmed a computer to count prime numbers?
- : Have you solved the 8-queens problem?
- : Are you a member of a maths society?
- : Were you cleverer than maths teachers at your school?
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- ATTRIBUTES
- : Do you think more clearly whilst pacing?
- : ...fiddling with something?
- : Are other people unable to read your handwriting?
- : Are _you_ unable to read your handwriting?
- : Is your spelling lousy?
- : Are you either hopelessly incompetent or frighteningly competent at mental arithmetic?
- : Are you short-sighted?
- : Are you left-handed?
- : Would you fail the Turing Test?
- : Do you often forget to have meals?
- : Are you physically unco-ordinated?
- : When you hear the word "ring", do you think first of a set with multiplication and addition?
- : Consider the joke: "Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip? - To get to the same side." Do you find this amusing?
- : Does the denary value of 2^16 spring readily to mind?
- : Can you "prove" 0=1?
- : Do you know how many primes there are less than 100?
- : ...less than 10000?
- : Does the number 1,729 mean anything to you?
- : Do you know what "QED" stands for?
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- FLUENTS
- : Is it more than six months since you last had a haircut?
- : Is it more than a week since you last had a bath/shower?
- : In the last month, have you gone 24 hours continuously without sleep?
- : In the last month, have you gone 18 hours continuously without being awake?
- : Is it more than a week since you changed your clothes?
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- METRICS
- : Have you ever done anything merely to improve your score in this test?
- : Do you feel that some of these questions were designed with you in mind?
- : Have you attempted to wilfully misinterpret any question in this test?
- : Did you succeed?
- : Did you notice the split infinitive two questions ago?
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