• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    God I hated questions like this in school. There’s always something specific the teacher is looking for, but nothing to point you towards it.

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      26 minutes ago

      I’m thinking maybe “Because if you subtract 40 from my number you get a negative number,” but I could be either over- or under-thinking it.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      2 hours ago

      Usually the pointer is the blahblah the teacher was droning while you were fantasizing about the attractive classmate sitting directly in front of you