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Friday, January 12, 2007

Students and Thugs

I had a professor who grew up in Russia. He said his college was in a seedy part of town and occasionally there would be altercations between the students and the local street toughs. After the police broke up a fight they had a clever way of separating out who was a student and who was a gang member. They asked each person a math question: "What is the integral of e to the x?"

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Blogger SonjaB said...

And I would be in the thug group...

8:14 PM  
Blogger Imaginary Broad said...

word verification gives me "ismyp", so I'll go with that for my answer.

2:24 PM  

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