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Pure Math, Pure Joy
e271828 writes "The New York Times is carrying a nice little piece entitled Pure Math, Pure Joy about the beauty and applicability of pure math as carried out at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. There is an accompanying slideshow of pictures of mathematicians in action; I particularly loved the picture titled Waging Mental Battle with a Proof."
Isn't that odd that you have to explain to a clueless person your answers on the Mensa entrance test? :)
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Not to call you or your girlfriend a liar, but she couldn't have shown you a question from a mensa test. The test materials are controlled and even if they weren't the answers are not distributed outside of the scoring center (which I believe is in texas at the HQ). What you were probably looking at was some lame excuse for a mensa-like question which I would not give any merit. Also as far as I can remember, no question on the test has more than five possible answers so I would be highly skeptical of your a-j question. It kinda pisses my off when people bad-mouth mensa even though they have never been to a meeting. Also, I offer you this suggestion: if you want to criticize the test, TAKE IT FIRST!!!
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So shut up, you suck.
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