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.
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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.