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Re:What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits... by threatofrain on Sunday March 20, 2016 @05:19PM (#11324722)
That's because the symbolic operator is implied for brevity. If we allowed implicit operators, would tetration be permitted as well? It sounds like a distraction from the class subject.
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Re:What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits... by dagw on Sunday March 20, 2016 @05:26PM (#11324748)
Personally I'd allow it, but I'd also mark all those answers, (and any other reasonably clever answer) as correct on the test
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Re:What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits... by threatofrain on Sunday March 20, 2016 @05:37PM (#11324791)
As a testing company, maybe I would advise the teacher to give a discretionary, external reward for creativity, and maybe provide an advanced lecture for those inquiring students, but for policy reasons, people just want to know if students understood the content to measure pedagogical policy. You can either ask students to write an essay (unscalable and contingent on other skills), or you could ask a question with true and false answers.

Otherwise we cannot measure the efficacy of pedagogical policy.

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Re:What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits... by Mithaldu on Sunday March 20, 2016 @05:59PM (#11324877)
He asked them to do that, since that is the right thing to do where a textual question can have multiple answers depending on the context; however they refused to do so.
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