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>>9651364

ITT: stories involving TAs

>TA in algebra
>hand-in asks you to state and prove lagrange's theorem
>one student writes "... since the cosets divide G up into n parts .."
>put a cross next to that piece to indicate that's not exactly what's going on
>proof was okay otherwise
>still gave him full marks on that one because without the full marks he'd have failed the hand-in
>after the corrected hand-ins are handed out, he comes back to me to complain about exactly that
>tell him how he needs to think about in terms of equivalence relations and cells
>he says we're both right and that he'd write his version on the exam
>let it go

Man, I really wanna help these people, but this fucking cunt reeee

>>8903348
>>8903355
YES, I GOT IT. Figured it out while taking a huge fucking shit (I always eat tacos before doing algebra for some reason, makes me think better). Thanks for the help, lads.

Also to >>8903340, what does it mean for a set to be multiplicative?

>>8900379
>doesn't understand what a series is

doesn't understand what it means for a series to converge*

And if he gives a shit about learning this stuff rigorously, and not just some intuition, he will watch the video.

>goes on and on pointlessly to show it.

>plug in the approached value and be done with this