UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige
Eksamen i : INF-3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939 — Grunnkurs i julebord
Eksamensdag : Fredag 8. desember 2006
Oppgaver og svar
Kombinert engelsk-norsk løsning
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UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
Faculty og Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Exam in : INF-3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939 — Elementary Yuleboardics
Day of exam: Friday, Desember 8th, 2006
Problems and answers
Combined English-Norwegian solution
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1. SYTTEN UFULLSTENDIGE SITATER
1.1. "To be or not to be, ...."
a) "that's what's bugging me"
• b) "that is the question."
c) "what is the answer?"
Shakespeare
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1.2. "I have nothing to offer but ...."
• a) "blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
b) "blood, sweat and tears"
c) "blood and sweat, toil and tears"
Winston Churchill
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1.3. "And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, ...."
• a) "and parsin"
b) "and parsing"
• c) "upharsin"
Daniel 5:25
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1.4. "You don't need a weather man ...."
a) "to teach you how to drive your van"
b) "to tell you if it's raining"
• c) "to tell you where the wind blows"
Robert Zimmerman
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1.5. "I ain't gonna work .... no more"
a) "in Marge's store"
• b) "on Maggie's farm"
d) "for the CIA"
Robert Zimmerman
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1.6. "Lovely Rita Meter Maid ..."
a) "Please don't leave that bill on my car"
b) "our love will never fade"
• c) "nothing can come between us"
The Beatles
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1.7. "All the world's a stage, …."
a) "And all the words a cage"
• b) "And all the men and women merely players"
c) "And each must play a part"
Shakespeare
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1.8. "Vel hefir konungrinn alit oss, feitt er mér enn um hjartarøtr. ...." (the rest in modern Norwegian)
a) "Og så døde han"
b) "Så falt han om i uvit"
• c) "Så seg han bakover og var død"
Snorre Sturlason
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1.9. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, ...."
"Salige er de fattige i ånden"
a) "for they will inherit the earth. "
"for de skal arve jorden"
b) "for they are mostly happy anyway "
"for de er stort sett fornøyd uansett"
• c) "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
• "for Himmelens rike er deres"
Mathew 5.3
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1.10. "Blessed are the meek, ...."
a) "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
b) "for theirs is the front of the line in the end"
• c) "for they will inherit the earth. "
Mathew 5.5
"Salige er de saktmodige"
"for Himmelens rike er deres"
"for deres er starten på køen til slutt"
"for de skal arve jorden"
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1.11. "We hold …., that all men are created equal."
a) "on to the creed of the fathers of our constitution"
b) "on to this creed"
• c) "these truths to be self-evident"
d) "our forefather's words to be true"
Thomas Jefferson
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1.12. "Ask not what your country can do for you – ...."
a) "ask how can you serve your country"
• b) "ask what you can do for your country"
c) "ask, How do you do?"
John F Kenney
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1.13. "Then Jacob gave Esau ...."
"Og Jakob gav Esau""
a) "some bread and water."
"brød og vann"
b) "two fishes and five loaves of bread"
"to fisker og fem brød"
• c) "some bread and some lentil stew."
"brød og linsevelling"
Genesis 25.34
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1.14. "We'll have Manhattan, .... It's lovely going through The zoo."
a) "some bread and some lentil stew."
b) "the Lower East Side, me and you."
• c) "The Bronx and Staten Island too."
d) "Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island."
Lorenz Hart
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1.15. "First we take Manhattan and then we take ...."
a) "the isle of Staten "
b) "the Bronx "
• c) "Berlin"
Leonard Cohen
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1.16. ".... When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin."
a) "When I want the East to sneeze, I flirt with the Chinese"
• b) "Berlin is the testicle of the West."
c) "When I want the East to sweat, I lean on Tibet."
Nikita Khrushchev
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1.17. "I never had sex with that woman. ...."
a) "Ms. Lebowsky"
• b) "Ms. Lewinsky."
c) "Ms. Loveinthesky"
Bill Clinton
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2. SEKSTEN DATAMASKINER
når
hvor
stikkord
name
2.1
-100
Egeerhavet astronomi-mekanikk
antikythera
2.2
1275
Spania
Debatt- og prekenmaskin
Llullian Circle
Ramon Llull
2.3
1623
Tyskland
Brukt av vennen Kepler
Regneklokken
Calculating Clock
Whilhelm Schickard
2.4
1644
Frankrike
Den fromme kartesianer
Pascaline
Pascal
2.5
1671
Tyskland
Calculus Ratiocinator
Step Reckoner
Leibniz
2.6
1801
Frankrike
så langt den mest suksessrike bruk av hullkort
Jacquard loom
Joseph-Marie
Jacquard
2.7
1820
Frankrike
Første salgbare mekaniske
bordbårne regnemaskin
Arithmometer
Charles Xavier
Thomas de Colmar
2.8
1822-49 England
desimal, analog, messing
Difference Engine
Babbage
2.9
1849-71 England
Analytical Engine
Babbage
-"-
constructor
2.10 1840
England
trinær, digital, av tre
Calculating Machine Thomas Fowler
2.11 1880
USA
hullkortregneren
The Tabulator
Hollerith (Billings)
(IBM)
2.12 1936
England
Vet vi noensinne når
vi skal stoppe?
a-machine
Alan Turing
2.13 1938-41 Tyskland
binær, fra mekanisk
til elektronisk
Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4
Konrad Zuse
2.14 1942
England
anti-enigmatisk
Colossus
Tommy Flowers
Max Newmann et alii
2.15 1945
USA
digital, elektronisk storskala, programmerbar
ENIAC
Mauchly & Eckert
et alii
2.16 1953
Norge
NUSSE
Hysing et alii
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2. SIXTEEN COMPUTERS
når
hvor
stikkord
name
constructor
2.1
-100
The Egeans astronomy-mechanics
antikythera
2.2
1275
Spain
Arguments and sermons
Llullian Circle
Ramon Llull
2.3
1623
Germany
Used by friend Kepler
Regneklokken
Calculating Clock
Whilhelm Schickard
2.4
1644
France
The pious Cartesian
Pascaline
Pascal
2.5
1671
Germany
Calculus Ratiocinator
Step Reckoner
Leibniz
2.6
1801
France
So far the most succesfull
use of punched cards
Jacquard loom
Joseph-Marie
Jacquard
2.7
1820
France
First commercial
Arithmometer
mechanical table computer
2.8
1822-49 England
decimal, analogue, brass
Difference Engine
Babbage
2.9
1849-71 England
-"-
Analytical Engine
Babbage
Charles Xavier
Thomas de Colmar
2.10 1840
England
ternary, digital, wood
Calculating Machine Thomas Fowler
2.11 1880
USA
punched card computer
The Tabulator
Hollerith (Billings)
(IBM)
2.12 1936
England
Do we ever know
when to stop?
a-machine
Alan Turing
2.13 1938-41 Germany
binær, fra mekanisk
til elektronisk
Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4
Konrad Zuse
2.14 1942
England
anti-enigmatic
Colossus
Tommy Flowers
Max Newmann et alii
2.15 1945
USA
digital, elektronisk storskala, programmerbar
ENIAC
Mauchly & Eckert
et alii
2.16 1953
Norway
NUSSE
Hysing et alii
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3. SEKSTEN BERØMTE DYR
3.1
Flyr vidt omkring og rapporterer hviskende til sin herre
deres art hyppig omtalt i vitenskapsteorien
Odins to svarte ravner Huginn And Muninn
3.2
Den flyktige katt fra Eventyrland
The Chessire Cat
3.3
Den selvstendigekatt som portrettert av han som skrev historien om den foreldreløse ulvegutten
The Cat that Walked By Itself (Kipling)
3.4
Hendel for plutselig forløsning— også kjent som filmhistoriens smarteste hest
Roy Rogers' Trigger
3.5
Den store messianske løve
Aslan of Narnia
3.6
Den luftbårne ganger til De eldre tiders Bellerofon en god del senere overtatt av poeten
Pegasus
3.7
TV-helthunden fra grenselandet
Lassie
3.8
Helveteshunden som møtte den narkomane detektiv
Hunden fra Baskerville
3.9
Verdensslukeren bundet, enn så lenge, med ubrytelige lenker ved helvetes port
Fenrisulven
3.10
Elefantevert ved hjelp av sine enorme sensoriske vedheng (når "elefantevert" er et dårlig ordspill)
Dumbo (den stor-ørede flygende elefant)
3.11
Den rundhodede gnager fra tegneseriene
unnfanget som Mortimer, for å fødes med et mer alminnelig navn
Mickey Mouse
3.12
Hva du kunne ha ropt (på engelsk) til presidenten, om hans fornavn hadde begynt med en D,
istedet fior en R, i hans møte med attentatmannen
Donald Duck
3.13
Den animerte ubåt med sin motvillig hellige passasjer
Hvalen som bar Jonas i sin buk i 5 dager
3.14
Den ørlille blodusgende latiner
Den spanske loppe
There was a little Spanish Flea
A record star he thought he'd be
he heard of singers like beatles and the chipmunks he'd seen on tv
....Why not a Little Spanish Flea?
3.15
Det konstant forkjølede arktiske klovdyret til den sesongbaserte altruisten
Rudolf, det rødnesed reinsdyr
3.16
Gjenfødt gjennom ild og aske
Fønix
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3. SIXTEEN FAMOUS ANIMALS
3.1 Flying wide, reporting back to their master in whispers—their kind frequently referred to in Theory of Science
The two black ravens of Oðin, Huginn And Muninn
3.2 The Volatile Feline from Wonderland
The Chessire Cat
3.3 The Independent Feline—as portrayed by the writer of the tale of the orphaned wolf boy
The Cat that Walked By Itself (Kipling)
http://www.petrescue.com/library/cat-walked.htm
3.4 The handle of abrupt release
Roy Rogers' Trigger
aka the smartest horse in the movies
http://www.equinenet.org/heroes/trigger.html
3.5 The Great Messianic Lion
Aslan of Narnia
3.6 The Airborne Steed of Ancient Bellerophon—much later claimed the Poet
Pegasus
3.7 The Canine TV-hero of the Borderlands
Lassie
3.8 The Hell-Hound versus the Famous Drug Addict Detective
The Hound of the Baskervilles
3.9 Devourer of the World—held, for now, by an unbreakable tether at the Gates of Hell
The Fenris Wolf
3.10 Elephated by means of his enormous sensory appendages (when "Elephated" is bad pun)
Dumbo (the big eared flying elephant)
3.11 The roundhead rodent of the cartoons, conceived as Mortimer, to be born under a commoner name
Mickey Mouse
3.12 what you might have shouted to the president, had his name begun with a D, instead of an R at his
encounter with the would be assassin
Donald Duck
3.13 The animated submarine with his reluctantly holy passenger
The Jonas Whale
3.14 The tiny latino blood sucker
There was a little Spanish Flea
A record star he thought he'd be
he heard of singers like beatles and the chipmunks he'd seen on tv
....Why not a Little Spanish Flea?
3.15 the permanently cold-ridden cloven-hoofed arctic animal of the seasonal altruist
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rain Deer
3.16 Reborn Through Flame and Ashes
Phoenix
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4. ÅTTE-OG-TYVE BERØMTE PAR
4.1
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
4.2
Evita Peron & Juan Peron
4.3
Adam & Eve
4.4
Anthony & Cleopatra
4.5
Barbie & Ken
4.6
Bert & Ernie
4.7
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
4.8
Homer Simpson & Marge Bouvier
4.9
Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love
4.10
Romeo & Juliet
4.11
Samson & Delilah
4.12
Siegfried & Roy
4.13
Abelard & Heloïse
4.14
Tom & Jerry
4.15
Batman & Robin
4.16
Laurel & Hardy
4.17
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
4.18
Hero & Leander
4.19
Othello & Desdemona
4.20
Philemon & Baucis
4.21
Porgy & Bess
4.22
Diana (aka Sala) Palmer & the Phantom (Kit Walker)
4.23
Samson & Delilah
4.24
Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
4.25
Sonny & Cher
4.26
Tarzan & Jane
4.27
Tristan & Iseult (Isolde)
4.28
Punch & Judy
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5. SEKSTEN BERØMTE PLANTER
5.1
Forbannet til evig ufruktbarhet av den tørste tømmermannsønnen (eller egentlig en annens sønn)
Fikentreet Jesus forbannet fordi det ikke ville gi ham skygge i dagens hete
Matteus 21, 12-17. Markus 11, 12-14
5.2
Holder oppe den bittelille tolleren, og eo ipso synderen, som så sårt ønsker å se forkynneren
Det morbærtrettet den kortvokste tolleren Sakkeus klatret opp i for å se Jesus i folkemengden
Luke 19:1-6
5.3
Varlser kongen med det fagre håret
Det treet Dronning Ragnhild, Halvdan Svartes kone, drømte om, som varslet at hennes sønn Harald Hårfagre
skulle ble den første kongen over hele Norge.
5.4
Det gjenfødte kystlige minnet om kongelig flukt
Kongebjerke ved det stedet der Kong Haakon unslapp tyskerne i 1940 i båt på vei mot England
5.5
Verdenstreet som gjennomborer Miðgarðr
Yggdrasil—det største og herligste av alle trær med eviggrønne grener som brer seg over hele verden og når like
opp til himmelen, og med tre røtter: én i Nivelheimen, en i Jotunheimen og én i Asgard.
5.6
Fikk slippe på grunn av sin ungdommelige uskyld, så bragt til den blinde for å bli den fagres bane
Mistelteien, som på grunn av sin uunselighet og uskyld ikke hadde blitt avkrevet noe løfte om ikke å såre Balder.
Loke tok teinen med til Balders blinde bror Hod og lurte Hod til å skyte den mot Balder, hvorpå Balder døde.
5.7
Puffen (krakken, stolen, sengen) for meditativ, nirvanisk lykksalighet
Lotusblomsten som Buddha hviler på.
5.8
Ombundet med ønsker om hjemkomst og forening
Det gamle eiketreet, ombundet med sitt gule bånd med ønske om soldatenes hjemkomst
5.9
Den ensteående mørke kjærlighetens og stridens blomst
Den sorte tulipan, dyrket frem av Cornelius van Baerle, beskrevet av Alexandre Dumas
5.10
Den uendelige spinkelhetens himmelrettede klatrestang
Bønnestengelen til Jacob
5.11
Skjebnen til Den eldre tids dialektiske fødselshjelper
Skarntyde eller Malurt som ble brukt til å brygge giftdrikken som ble servert Socrates
5.12
Det flammende uantennelige medium til han Som Er
Den brennende tornebusk hvorigjennom Gud talte til Moses på Sinai Bjerg.
5.13
En plante i navnet et fartøy for de fromme i gavnet
The Mayflower
5.14
Det fullstendig latterligere offeret krevet av de gigantiske voktere av ordene: Ni, Ping, and Nee-womm!
Busken forlangt av The Knights Who Say Ni i Monte Python's Holy Grail-film.
5.15
Vakkert blomstrende, men stikkende
omhengende den ikke helt nærværende skjønnhet
Tornehekken rundt slottet der Tornerose sov i hundre år
5.16
Hele rekken av dem besunget for sin forsommerskjønnhet, med løfter om undre
Kastanjene i Bygdøy Allé
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5. SIXTEEN FAMOUS PLANTS
5.1 Banned to be forever barren by the thirsty son of the carpenter (or actually someone else's son)
The fig tree banned by Jesus because it would not give him shade at the height of the day
Mathew 21, 12-17. Marc 11, 12-14
5.2 Supporting the miniscule customs officer, and eo ipso sinner, who so badly wanted to see the preacher
The sycamore tree climbed by Zacchaeus
Luke 19:1-6
5.3 Foretelling the fair haired king
The tree in the dream of Ragnhild, the Queen wife of Halvdan Swarthy, signaling that her son
Harold Fairhair would be first king of all of Norway.
5.4 The Reborn Coastal Memorial of Royal Escape
The King Birch growing near the place where Norwegian King Haakon, fleeing the Germans in April 1940,
entered the boat that took him to England. (The tree died and was replaced sometime during the eighties.)
5.5 The Miðgarðr Piercing World Tree
Yggdrasil—the greatest and most wonderful of all trees with evergreen leaves that spreads over all is the World
and reaches all the way to Heaven and with three roots: one in Nivelheimen, one in Jotunheimen, and one in Asgard.
5.6 Left to itself in virtue of its innocence and then coupled with blindness to be the bane of the fairest
The Mistletoe that killed Baldr: Loki arranged the murder of Baldr when he used mistletoe, the only plant which
had not sworn to never harm Baldr, and made a dart of it, which he tricked Baldr's blind brother Höðr into
throwing at Baldr, thereby killing him.
5.7 The stool of meditative nirvanic bliss
The Lotus Flower on which Buddha is resting
5.8 Ribboned with wishes of homecoming
The Old Oak Tree (with its yellow ribbon)
5.9 The Uniquely Dark Flower of Love and Strife
The Black Tulip of Cornelius van Baerle (Alexandre Dumas)
5.10 The Never-ending Slenderness of Heaven Reaching Climbing Stick
The Beanstalk (that of Jacob's)
5.11 The Fate of the Ancient Dialectic Obstetrician
The Hemlock (Skarntyde or Malurt) used to brew the poison that served to Socrates
5.12 The Flaming Inflammable Medium of The One Who Is
In the Book of Exodus, the burning bush is a miracle performed by God (YHWH) on Mount Sinai to inform
Moses of his divine calling. God appeared to Moses from a bush which was aflame, but which was not
consumed by the fire.
5.13 By name a Plant by Deed a Vessel for the Pious
The Mayflower
5.14 The totally silly sacrifice demanded by the giant keepers of the words: Ni, Ping, and Nee-womm!
The shrubbery demanded by The Knights Who Say Ni in Monte Python's Holy Grail movie.
5.15 Nicely flowered, but stinging—hedging in the somewhat distant loveliness
The Sleeping Beauty
5.16 The whole row—Edging the ally—the crooner besinging their flowering wonder-promising beauty
The Chesnut Trees of Bygdøy Allé
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