I'd Rather Whine than Switch

YANXWIN · Post by **YANXWIN** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:59 am

So "close" really does count. My math teachers lied to me then.

BRWombat · Post by **BRWombat** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:35 am

YANXWIN wrote:So "close" really does count. My math teachers lied to me then.

Just remember, for large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.

YANXWIN · Post by **YANXWIN** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:43 am

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)

hhsrat · Post by **hhsrat** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:43 am

BRWombat wrote:Just remember, for large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.

Or more simply ... rounding errors .. 1.4 (rounds to 1) + 1.4 = 2.8 (rounds to 3) ... so .. 1 + 1 = 3

hobie16 · Post by **hobie16** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:25 pm

hhsrat wrote:Or more simply ... rounding errors .. 1.4 (rounds to 1) + 1.4 = 2.8 (rounds to 3) ... so .. 1 + 1 = 3

I was always bad at math. In fact, I got kicked out of math class when I was twelve.

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."

GRUMPY PIRATE · Post by **GRUMPY PIRATE** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:28 pm

YANXWIN wrote:So "close" really does count. My math teachers lied to me then.

or as we used to say, "close" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and atomic bombs. :canthearyou:

WEDFan · Post by **WEDFan** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:16 pm

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.

GRUMPY PIRATE · Post by **GRUMPY PIRATE** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:23 pm

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?

BRWombat · Post by **BRWombat** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:28 am

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?

Remember, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

WEDFan · Post by **WEDFan** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:37 am

BRWombat wrote:
GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Remember, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

And remember, the reason so many programmers confuse Christmas and Halloween is that 31 OCT = 25 DEC.

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.

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