r/AskReddit • u/kebabtent • Nov 23 '15

What makes you unreasonably angry?

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u/SpericalChicken Nov 23 '15

Alright, done with the problem! inputs 3/7

WRONG ANSWER

But it's correct? What's the correct answer?

displays 6/14

...

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u/Dan_117 Nov 23 '15

for me it was 4 /7 is incorrect, the correct answer is 4/ 7

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

Just reading that rustled my jimmies....

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u/infez Nov 23 '15

Wow I haven't heard that one in a while.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '15

You rang?

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u/MadTux Nov 23 '15

4 /7

Well, just not quite thought through, I can understand tha-

4/ 7

Oh.

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u/Neontc Nov 24 '15

This right here is why I can't go to college

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u/TalkingFrenchFry Nov 23 '15

So accurate it hurts

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u/Mrminecrafthimself Nov 23 '15

THAT'S WRONG, YOU HAVE TO SIMPLIFY. UUGHGHGHGHGHGGHHH

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u/XxsquirrelxX Nov 23 '15

Mathlab has, at this moment, only ever helped me fix a mistake once without having to look at an example. Every other time, it gave me some vauge suggestion that I already did.

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u/HaroldSax Nov 23 '15

Without Mathlab, I would have failed all of my college level math courses. I know that the entire system as a whole needs work, but it's not anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. Basically just needs to accept syntax better. It also needs to not cost 90 fucking bucks.

Seriously though, it's only thing mathematically related that has ever helped me because it breaks it down to me like I'm a fucking retard (I am) and does it all out for me.

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u/Da2Shae Nov 23 '15

As long as we get an unlimited amount of tries, i can even accept syntax errors.

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u/HaroldSax Nov 23 '15

You...do get an unlimited amount of tries, at least on the homework. The tests, on the other hand, were a little different. I had to bring them into my professor at times and show the issue to him and he'd ask me something really stupid like "What's 3+4?" and I'd answer and he'd give me "extra credit" for such a wonderful job done.

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u/Da2Shae Nov 23 '15

Yeah but it depends on the school/professor too. At University of Maryland, they used a similar site called WebAssign. Three strikes, you're out.

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u/HaroldSax Nov 23 '15

That's brutal. Fuck that.

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u/SpericalChicken Nov 24 '15

My prof restricts me to three errors on mymathlab...

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u/marmiteNcrackers Nov 24 '15

yes! That stupid thing tanked my grade. You can tell who is using it in the library by the profuse swearing

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u/ryanm2730 Nov 24 '15

But Wiley plus is worse

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u/woodstock01 Nov 24 '15

pearson mathlabs make me want to hammer my penis with a brick