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When it states in the rules that calculators must be dedicated to computation, does that just mean that you are not allowed to put notes on an nspire or similar calculator?

Has anyone found the pricing for the competition day box lunches? I can't seem to find it on the website.

State schedule can be found here: http://outreach.science.tamu.edu/tso/20 ... edules.pdf

If you are wondering if it screws over your school, it probably does.

Ok, I think I understand it now. The two measurements are the same because of how the parsec is defined from parallax using Earth's orbit, right? Similar(ish) question: in Kepler's third law, what causes the constant to cancel with certain units? (AU, solar masses? can't remember) It is similar to ...

appleshake123 wrote:

bhavjain wrote:Let's revive this.

By how much is the oribital period of RX J0806.3+1527 decreasing each year?

Sorry if I'm stupid, but what is the relevance of RX JO806.3+1527 to this year? I do not believe it is one of the DSO's.

Its just another name for HM Cancri

Hello Chalker,

Sorry to be bombarding you with score requests but my friend REALLY wants to know how close she was to getting a medal in hydro (she got 9th).
Thanks for putting up with all of our unending requests! I hope this isn't sucking you away from your job at the ohio supercomputer center.

Hello Chalker,

Since Div C DyPlan is being universally described as too easy and short on this thread, could you please give us a general idea of how close the scores were?
My partner and I got 9th and we would like to know how close we were to medalling.

Astronomy (14th) - Great as always. Dynamic Planet (9th) - This test was awful. The questions were super basic and there was very little math. The entire test was 3 pages front and back and the answer sheet was 1 page. This was really surprising because it was the same proctor as last year's test, w...

On the topic of MIT, I didn't do bridge myself, but apparently the autoloaders didn't work, and the proctor let a team keep pouring sand when the bucket was resting on the ground. Also, apparently the scoring was waaaaay off. Hopefully someone who did the event can verify.

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