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Joe Haldeman (21.759)
sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 12 14:59:04 1990
In Haldeman's SF writing class, a story's final grade is determined
by the formula g = sqrt(n^2 + l), where g is the grade, n is a
numerical grade (A+=100, A=95, etc., with a ten-point bonus for
hard SF), and l is either the story's length in words or 7500,
whichever is smaller.
As he was writing this formula on the board, after he wrote
the square-root sign, he said, "I don't know why you're all
laughing. This is M-I-fucking-T, isn't it?"
