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From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP 48 Yards.FeetInches
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Date: 24 Jun 91 21:48:16 GMT
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Okay, Harold started it:

>>The reverse transformation is left as an exercise for the student.

>               Left as an exercise for the student. How I hate those words.
>I thought I would never see them here. I had enough of them when we used
>Keith R. Symon's "Mechanics" for Classical Mechanics at UTC (Physics by the way
>). I also hate it should be obvious. It sure as hell wasn't always obvious to
>us.(Seemed like he always skipped 10 or 12 steps between the "obvious" parts.)

I tried "it is obvious that..." on a midterm in one of my Chem E classes once. 
The prof was amused, but he didn't buy it.

On the same midterm, one of my friends was desparate enough (and time was 
almost up) that he even tried "...and then a miracle happens."  The prof
didn't buy that, either.  Not even at BYU.


Ray 
HP ICBD -- IC's By Decree
Fort Collins, Colorado
rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com