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George Dantzig, 1914-2005
Markus Registrada writes "George Dantzig, the inventor of the Simplex method for solving Linear Programming problems, died on May 13. He was also the now-legendary student who turned in solutions for what he had taken to be a homework assignment, only to find out they had been posted as examples of what were suspected to be unsolvable problems."
"or I'll be eating my breakfast cereal out of the bottom of your fcking skull, gestanlich?"
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If the problem was indeed unsolvable, then nobody in the set of exam students would have been able to solve it correctly either.
As the purpose of university exams since the invention of the grading curve is largely to sort the students by some semi-abstract form of academic capability, there really was no deleterious effect from you losing that mark.
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I hope the FAQ is updated to include his burial spot, I'd love to visit his grave site. So I can piss all over it.
It doesn't suck at all, it sounds like you got what you deserved. What the fuck university were you going to that didn't have a department head? Or if that was the department head, somebody that was HIS boss? Or another professor that could verify your findings? I think you're full of shit, or you were just wrong about the problem and it was solvable. You certainly weren't distracted with all the snatch you were getting in university.
Wrong Dan(t)zig. This is the one that always had a dick in his mouth.
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