Sigh, I wish the students I supervised at University had been as smart as that, it might even have been a challenge. Mine just copied off each other word for word. Not very smart considering the fact that I wrote a script that ran diff between each and every assignment from all 8 groups. Sorting by amount of difference accending, I caught about a dozen students that way. I was generaly able to work out who had copied from who, but the lecturer who was teaching the course (and my boss at the time) just instructed me to give both parties 0 and leave the rest to him. I took a very sick pleasure in doing so I have to admit ;) When I was studying we just wern't that careless :-)

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