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Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com)
Earthquake Retrofit shares this article from the Associated Press: "An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist... He said the woman sitting next to him passed a note to a flight attendant and the plane headed back to the gate. Guido Menzio, who is Italian and has curly, dark hair, said the pilot then asked for a word and he was questioned by an official... "They tell me that the woman was concerned that I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper..." He was treated respectfully throughout, he added. But, he said, he was concerned about a delay that a brief conversation or an Internet search could have resolved. "Not seeking additional information after reports of 'suspicious activity'... is going to create a lot of problems, especially as xenophobic attitudes may be emerging."
... I hear the passengers thought he was with the Al-Gebra network - and he was holding potential weapons of math instruction.
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Oh no! Italians doing math?! They're only supposed to cook pasta and things. That's definitely out of character if you base it solely on cartoonish stereotypes.
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I came very close to dividing by zero once - my injuries were so severe that I had to be taken to the l'hôpital
Wait until Homeland Security finds out he was writing it in Arabic numerals.
Arabic numerals, combined with the new evidence he was carrying methods of math instruction, all lead to one conclusion...
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So, it was an economist writing down a differential equation over a tray table.
An economist -- yeah, as an engineer, it would have been my ethical duty to report this to the authorities.
Gotta appreciate the irony of a Welsh complaining about incomprehensible scribbling...
Haven't you heard? Math is fucking scary! He might have been preparing a pop quiz for people in every third row whose birthdays are divisible by a mersenne prime. Think about how many people could have died!!!
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Or, she might have thought he was a member of Al Gebra, and he was carrying weapons of maths instruction?
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