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[–] 69 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

I think, technically, this is a comma-separated list, so the kid should have circled 1.39, 2.17, and 3.96 as the smallest numbers.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    That's not how csvs work though. Everyone knows you sometimes use dots as decimals but as separators in column 3 and 17, but not in rows that rhyme with their first entry except on tuesdays.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You can always use the Excel API to read the file, but make sure you set the computer's locale to Turkish before you start.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    as a turkish, this localization difference horrifies me every time I need to engage in something with a dot/comma because I never have any idea which one is which and refuse to look it up to put an end to it for good.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The thing is, the kid circled (then erased) the "correct" answer for the first two and started circling the right one for the last question... Then stopped.

    So they totally got the assignment.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    What does the red fish squiggly on the side mean? Correct or incorrect?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's an "X" to indicate incorrect answer. The teacher has 100+ papers to grade and a lesson plan to get together for tomorrow and doesn't have time to make their marks look pretty.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm in a different pink collar profession and sometimes when I have an audit checklist to circle "yes" for "I did the thing" down 15 items my circles just turn into a long chained spiral.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    May I ask what category a “pink collar” profession is?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I used to have a teacher (and multiple others since then) back in the 90s who also used the same squiggly to indicate correct answers. Not sure what the origin is, but I've also used it since

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That’s interesting. I had the exact opposite experience in the same timeframe. Those are X’s written really fast and the pen doesn’t leave the page. I’ve only ever seen those marks used to indicate incorrect answers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Now that I think about it, maybe the "correct" ones were rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, in which case I guess it might mean a quickly drawn V?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    In addition to what others have said (this is an X), American teachers traditionally use red pen to mark incorrect answers/correct mistakes.

    The teacher marked these as incorrect.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    A great opportunity to use letters as the list item bullets

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Roman numerals still count right?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah to avoid any clever "gotcha" kids, use

    A. B. C.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    A. B. C.

    Are just undefined variables, and therefore a number. It's just that we haven't defined what those numbers are so they can still be any real number including the smallest number

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Error!

    prog.c: In function ‘main’:
    prog.c:4:8: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token
        4 |   int A.;
          |        ^
    prog.c:4:8: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
    prog.c:5:8: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token
        5 |   int B.;
          |        ^
    prog.c:5:8: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
    prog.c:6:8: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token
        6 |   int C.;
          |        ^
    prog.c:6:8: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
    
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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    When I was an elementary teacher I would have let this slide for sure. I would have explained next time I'll count it wrong though.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    If the numbers counting the questions are part of it, then only 1 should be circled.

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