I knew of someone who kind of did, depending on which way you look at it. Only for one question though…

He noticed that the answer to a single question, was literally written on his otherwise exam-compliant calculator a few weeks before the exam, for high school math. The question often came up in practice tests. This calculator wasn’t programmable (in the sense you could store answers).

The question?

How many kilometres in a nautical mile? Answer: 1.852.

He figured out that the numbers in the centre row of the calculator lined up exactly with the decimal fraction:

7 8 9

4 5 6

1 2 3

So he drew a line around the calculator pad to link those numbers up. None of the teachers picked it up, as it looked like graffiti.

Police on Thursday found Wilga’s abandoned Mitsubishi van about 150km from Beacon in the Karroun Hill area, which has been described as remote and inhospitable country.

The first rule of venturing into the Australian outback:

• Never, ever, abandon your vehicle.

You become extremely hard to find wandering into the Australian wilderness. Many people have died this way thinking they’ll ‘walk to the nearest help’, which may be hundreds of kilometres away, through hostile dangerous heat during the day and extreme cold during the night.

Agreed. The books are just as good as the show.