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| Subject: Idiots: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called. Fri Feb 23, 2018 5:05 pm | |
| A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.
On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.
Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/article201604224.html#storylink=cpy
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