I'd Rather Whine than Switch
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Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
Just remember, for large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.YANXWIN wrote:So "close" really does count. My math teachers lied to me then.
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Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
And something about apothems, which I always thought was someone with a lisp talking about marsupials. You might be able to sympathize with that. (Not the lisp part)
Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
Or more simply ... rounding errors .. 1.4 (rounds to 1) + 1.4 = 2.8 (rounds to 3) ... so .. 1 + 1 = 3BRWombat wrote:Just remember, for large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.
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Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
I was always bad at math. In fact, I got kicked out of math class when I was twelve.hhsrat wrote:Or more simply ... rounding errors .. 1.4 (rounds to 1) + 1.4 = 2.8 (rounds to 3) ... so .. 1 + 1 = 3
We were doing fractions and the teacher says, "I want someone to divide 38/56 by 21/41. How about YOU!" pointing at me.
I started stammering and he says, "Think!"
"I'm trying to think." I replied.
"Okay, what is our common denominator?" he asked.
"Well," I replied, "We both lust after eleven-old girls."
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Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
or as we used to say, "close" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and atomic bombs. :canthearyou:YANXWIN wrote:So "close" really does count. My math teachers lied to me then.
Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
There was an old Frank and Ernest cartoon captioned (roughly):
In school I really enjoyed math, but I was terrible at it.
It was then I decided that liking math and being good at it were three entirely different things.
In school I really enjoyed math, but I was terrible at it.
It was then I decided that liking math and being good at it were three entirely different things.
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WEDFan wrote:There was an old Frank and Ernest cartoon captioned (roughly):
In school I really enjoyed math, but I was terrible at it.
It was then I decided that liking math and being good at it were three entirely different things.
Mmmmmmkayyyyyy.
maybe he was talking about binary?
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Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
Remember, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:WEDFan wrote:There was an old Frank and Ernest cartoon captioned (roughly):
In school I really enjoyed math, but I was terrible at it.
It was then I decided that liking math and being good at it were three entirely different things.
Mmmmmmkayyyyyy.
maybe he was talking about binary?
Re: I'd Rather Whine than Switch
And remember, the reason so many programmers confuse Christmas and Halloween is that 31 OCT = 25 DEC.BRWombat wrote:GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Remember, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
If binary digits are bits,
And decimal digits are dits,
Imagine the fun
We'll have when we're done,
Playing with Trinary...
Oops. Never mind.