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UPenn Professor Solving DiffEQ on Scratchpad Causes Plane to Return to Gate

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM   
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:

University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.

Remember folks, if you see something say something!

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• He Was Suspicious He Was Suspicious (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @12:48AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @12:48AM (#343371)

  You can't really blame her for worrying that he was Osama bin Addin, leader of Al-Gebra. After all he was handling weapons of math instruction right in front of her.

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• Re:He Was Suspicious (Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @01:26AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @01:26AM (#343380)

  unabashedly stolen from the green site, kudos to damn_registrars:

  "... I hear the passengers thought he was with the Al-Gebra network - and he was holding potential weapons of math instruction."

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• Re:He Was Suspicious (Score: 4, Funny) by CirclesInSand on Monday May 09 2016, @05:38AM

  by CirclesInSand (2899) on Monday May 09 2016, @05:38AM (#343451)

  Apparently she couldn't differentiate between terrorists and those prepared to integrate into society. Wasn't separable to her at all.

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