Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> One of the Italian born adjunct professor gave a rather bright student a
> "C" for failing to use the correct units. I thought he was too harsh but
> maybe I was wrong.

I didn't see the test, but using the wrong units means you don't really
understand what you're doing (unless it's a typo, of course). Getting a
number wrong can happen all the time, but getting a unit wrong -- that's
grave.

Gerhard

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