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* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', the protagonist's brilliance is established when he solves in one day the problem of finding "all the homeomorphic irreducible trees of degree 10" which took a team of professors two years. This is a real math problem but while it sounds incredibly daunting it's really the kind of thing any graduate student in mathematics should be able to solve in an afternoon.

* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', the protagonist's brilliance is established when he solves in one day the problem of finding "all the homeomorphic irreducible trees of degree 10" which took a team of professors two years. This is a real math problem but while it sounds incredibly daunting its really the kind of thing any graduate student in mathematics should be able to solve in an afternoon.

* Rimmer does this to himself in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when he covers his arms and legs in revision notes and equations that are beyond his capacity to understand, in order to cheat on a test he is clearly not qualified to pass.

* Rimmer does this to himself in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when he covers his arms and legs in astrophysics equations that are beyond his capacity to understand to cheat on a test he is clearly not qualified to pass.
-->'''Rimmer:''' Right, they're bound to ask the right thigh, which is 10 per cent. They must ask the left thigh, which is 20 per cent. They've got to ask one of the forearms. Which means I've passed already; anything on the left shin's a bonus! Right. *Looks at one arm* `CUTIE'. Current under tension is... what's this? Current under tension is equal? Current under tension is expendable? Current under tension is expensive? What does this ''mean?'' *Begins to panic* ''What does any of it mean?'' I've covered my body in complete and utter and total absolute nonsense ''gibberish!''