M. W. said:
I think the crowning achievement
of this set was the total lack of factual errors.
For most tournaments, hard editing work will
eliminate all but a handful of potential hoses, and we
accept that editors are human if the mistakes are kept
to a bare minimum. Unless I'm recalling something
wrong, this tournament was COMPLETELY factually
accurate, hitting a crucially important goal of editing on
the nose.
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I would like to point
out there was a mistake, though it wasn't in a
tossup. In the bonus about crystal structure, the last
question I believe was something like "Name this structure
where a = b = c, but alpha doesn't equal beta which
doesn't equal gamma." This confused the heck out of me
(of course I don't have the exact wording),
especially since it's a subject covered in one of my
classes. The answer was triclinic, which should have been
described as "a doesn't equal b which doesn't equal c and
alpha doesn't equal beta which doesn't equal gamma."
I'm fairly sure that the symmetry described in the
question isn't possible, or else it's a special case of a
different system.
Paul Tomlinson