Re: Worst Hugos Ever?

Gene Ward Smith wrote:
goldfarb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Goldfarb) wrote in news:fpvcbm$u1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


There's a non-fiction article in _Expanded Universe_ in

which he

suggests, in all apparent seriousness, that people entering

a voting

booth should have to be able to solve a randomly-generated

quadratic

equation before they get to vote. (He did say that it

could be

restricted to integer roots.)


I think they should be forced to find, in their head, the Galois group of a polynomial with integer coefficients of degree sixteen.

I think they should be required to win at least three rounds of Jeopardy!.


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