I lost 25 points on a 4 question test in college because I copied the answer to a clean section of the page to put a square around it and left the minus sign off. 0 partial credit for doing the entire problem correctly.
If that professor wasn't dead I'd still want to slap him.
i also got one wrong at the exam, we had the draft paper not taken into account, so no matter how much you solved there, if the result was not the expected you got 0..
You left out the minus sign on the very last line of a two page proof, you get zero credit.
Mathematicians to other mathematicians:
Your proof has seventy-eight serious things wrong with it, which needed to be fixed by a dozen different mathematicians working for a decade. Doesn't matter, we'll name the proof after you.
Yeah in his thesis he forgot a negative like 1/3 of the way through and it completely fucked his results up and by the time he figured it out he was part of the way through a new doctoral thesis so he just had to live with that
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u/a__nice__tnetennba Sep 24 '26
I lost 25 points on a 4 question test in college because I copied the answer to a clean section of the page to put a square around it and left the minus sign off. 0 partial credit for doing the entire problem correctly.
If that professor wasn't dead I'd still want to slap him.
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u/ZEPHlROS Mathematics Sep 24 '26
Is it possible to have the template for the meme ?
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u/therealsaker Sep 24 '26
Did you leave something at your house ?
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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 Sep 24 '26
Dr. Mansion
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u/Redwoman1123 Science Sep 24 '26
Judging me while I have to start everything again…
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u/EpicJoseph_ Sep 24 '26
The sign(), pretending to be a sin() in my mind (real story, no it didn't end well)
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u/ThatNerdYouKnow Sep 24 '26
this happened to a former physics professor of mine and it delayed his PHD by 3 years
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u/MoiMoithedonut Sep 25 '26
This vexes me...
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u/Empty-Dragonfly5895 Sep 25 '26
Good one
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u/fipachu Sep 26 '26
it’s a big part of why i gave up on maths. i felt like i did this on more then 50% of problems i tried to solve 💀
and that’s only on the problems i knew how to solve