On Friday, December 25, 2015 13:08:29 jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > Question 6 is no piece of cake. All three should be compulsory for BWMA, > ARM, ACWM and the like. No true Imperialist would fail to answer > correctly. > > I would get "epic fail" on the Latin, Greek, History & Geography. With > resources (open book exam), I could hack my way through the math sections. > Why is an applicant to an American college expected to successfully > manipulate British currency? 20 shillings to the pound, 12 pence to the > shilling or do I have that backwards?
I have the monotonic keyboard layout and don't know the accents that well, but here goes: Ξενοφώνος θύοντος, ήξε άγγελος απο Μαντίνειας λέγων οτι ο υιός αυτού Γρύλλος τέθνηκε. Και εκείνος αποθείς μεν τον στέφανον διέτελε δε θύειν. Επεί δε και ο άγγελος προσέθηκε οτι τέθνηκε νικών, Ξενοφών πάλιν επέθηκε τον στέφανον. I don't know the dual. Euclid didn't use the dual (δυσιν ορθιαις ισαι εισιν, "they are equal to two right angles", would be δυοιν ορθιαιν if he did). > Does the student at least have a table of logarithms? I would hate to do > the long division, multiplication and root extraction solely by pencil and > paper methods. Fortunately, I am from pre-calculator days and can still > use logarithms when I need more accuracy than a slide rule, but I don't > even remember the method for manual root extraction, I'd have to use > Newton's method. I can extract a square root by hand, but it's been years since I've done it. Here are some questions I'd put on an entrance exam: A car is traveling on a level road at 90.000 km/h. A man drops a ball out of the window from 1.440 m above the road surface. Ignoring air resistance, and assuming standard gravity, how far does the ball travel horizontally in the frame of reference of the road? What is the maximum number of lumens per watt? You find a graffito "For a good time, call 919-263-1770" in the bathroom. Where do you start looking for the perpetrator, and why? Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain. _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
