I discovered an off-by-one error in college as I was graduating. Apparently the "class plan" I had put together with an advisor during my second year was missing a class, and I discovered it as I petitioned it for graduation. "You're one class short."
(It was for my second major, not the primary one, and the head of the physics department was nice enough to credit a nonlinear optimization course from engineering toward the major, so I earned it.)
I had a similar experience in getting a Math BS after finishing an Econ BA (which, for my school, was notoriously short and was not seen as sufficient to prepare you for economics graduate work).
The deal with my Math dept head was I had to make it my primary major (no true doubles at my weird undergrad, had to have an "additional"). It was a deal I was happy to make if it meant skipping an intro-to-proofs course after having taken the masters level series in most the of the fields they offered!
I discovered an off-by-one error in college as I was graduating. Apparently the "class plan" I had put together with an advisor during my second year was missing a class, and I discovered it as I petitioned it for graduation. "You're one class short."
(It was for my second major, not the primary one, and the head of the physics department was nice enough to credit a nonlinear optimization course from engineering toward the major, so I earned it.)