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bill.wards.netThis is the sort of hack that Feynman himself would have pulled, back when he was an undergraduate.
Funny but sound like a urban legend.
Not necessarily. Tests were on the honor system at Caltech (and I suppose still are). You typically took them in your dorm room.
So there's only one class at the entire school, called "Google 101"?
Heh. I remember one open-book midterm in particular: my score of 56% got a B.
Michael Nielsen's conducting a different sort of Google 101 here: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?page_id=503
If it is true I'm sure that the student would have gotten at least a passing grade if was willing to risk using Feynman.
Or would have no chance of passing without him.
Since it's an open-book exam, it's likely going to take a lot of thoughtful work.
bloody briliant, a much better exam hack than pointless puns.
He can't have been the only person in the class who had the thought. I would have; I just wouldn't have dared.
True or not, funny story.
Even if they had explicitly written Feynman's Lectures on Physics on the exam, the students could have asked Feynman to give a special lecture which happens to cover all of the exam material.
Half an hour, why it took him so long?
Obviously, he made sure to use good penmanship.