Combined Mathematics Final [Friday 12-21, Period 4]

[notanactualfairy]

"The time has come," the Canadian said, "to talk of many things. All of them are math. And you will be writing them, rather than speaking." Jean-Paul was not mean enough to give an oral exam.

Jean-Paul momentarily disappeared, and there was a breeze around the classroom. Then he was back in front of his desk and each student had an exam. "You may use calculators and scrap paper. Begin."

Comments

Extra Credit

[notanactualfairy]

One of your allies is now an evil zombie ninja. Formulate a plan to defeat him, utilizing math.

Re: Extra Credit

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Buh?" Charlie stared at the extra credit, and tried to think about this using math. Math?

Right. What Would Rodney Do?

I would build a time travel machine and go back in time to un-do the zombie'ing, using math. Also, something with fractals. I'm pretty sure zombies can't do fractals, even if they're ninjas.

There!

Re: Extra Credit

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan outlined briefly the mathematical structures used to construct a spell that would, theoretically, return the ally to their normal state, removing any added evil, zombie, and/or ninja.

Of course, 'brief' in this case took three pages of single-spaced writing and diagrams.

Re: Extra Credit

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney cooked up a plan that involved calculating the precise frequency of the zombie's limited brainwaves. He then described how he'd construct a device that would disrupt that frequency and thus render the zombie back into a regular corpse. There were graphs.

Re: Extra Credit

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Beat him with that underappreciated tool, the slide rule.

That's about as far as my battle planning goes.

Re: Extra Credit

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Under the assumption that is a zombie was a ninja, the zombie actually had to have higher brain functions and intelligence than the normal zombie, Adah simply wrote out that proof where 1=2 (http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/second1eq2.html), in hopes that it would just blow its oddly functioning mind with its impracticality, and, therefor, rendering him useless. Because everyone knew the way to kill a zombie was by removing the head or, in this case, destroying the brain.