Maths

[mdhay]

You are missing out on something there, the "New Maths" is amazing. In fact, It's so amazing, it's even more complicated than the mediocre, drab boring old one!

[omega329]

just changed it, did I mention the answer sheet I also had?;) just kidding, It was the Intermidiate maths challenge, I got 86 out of 120, 2nd place was 77 (I'm at a public arts school ok?)
here are the questions
http://www.highlandbridge.co.uk/UKMT/teachers/IMC08.html
And here's my school:
http://www.kingsley.worcs.sch.uk/
and the box office for the theater:
http://www.thebigk.org.uk/
EDIT: just worked out why I was getting mixed up, I was just doing a history project with a lot of BC dates and I was getting mixed up with that, allthough I could just ask lance about what life was like in the time of the pharohs;) no offence meant. well, no SERIOUS offence meant...

I'm getting to big for my boots now, so I'm going to shut up and go bother mods on another forum.

[mdhay]

So am I. But I'm at OLSJ, I have recently done three Maths test papers And got 67/150 overall Bear in mind my calculator was broken, so one of my test papers was harder, but not hard enough.

[Lance]

You are missing out on something there, the "New Maths" is amazing. In fact, It's so amazing, it's even more complicated than the mediocre, drab boring old one!

Exactly! I wish they'd bring back plain old differential calculus.

Back when I was in school, 1 + 1 = 2, but now it's the square of the square root of two.


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Omega: Art school. That explains a lot! :D

Nah. I'm just kidding.

[mdhay]

Now, 1+1=2 is:

1+1×[insert lower case lambda here]
to the power of pi.

But with pi being possibly infinite, My response would be:

"What kind of pie?"

[Lance]

Blueberry!

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Here I am discussing non-linear mathematics with people less than a quarter as old as me. [Do the math! }laughs crazily{]

[omega329]

yeah! this "new maths" is incredible! they've even figured out the root of -1! and it isn't a stupid imaginary unit or letter i! it's 42!
/mdhay wahey! first decent convorsation with someone my own age!

[mdhay]

He didn't answer it directly, but then said:

"Martin, have you got Pure on you? I'm bored."

I could've sworn it was a pecan pie, but Blueberry sounds brilliant.

[Lance]

42? IIRC, that was the result of the Adams Equation.

[mdhay]

Wasn't that the answer to life, the universe and everything and The Adams Equation?

[Lance]

Hm... 42 in base13 = 54 in base 10, which means that the question, ''What is 6 x 9?'', pulled from Arthur Dent's subconscious, and which = 54base10, actually makes sense, except that it indicates that the question and the answer rest on different premises and are hence irrelevant.

[mdhay]

New maths example for you, Lance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Multistep_Method

[Lance]

By the time I got to ''Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace'', my eyes glazed over. I'll stick with simple algebra and spherical trigonometry, thank you very much.

[mdhay]

Hah, It put me into therapy!

And I'll stick to II plus II equals IV.

[omega329]

I'm gettin a "no article with that title exists" at the moment :(

[mdhay]

Sorry about that, Link rectified.

[omega329]

still getting it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Multistep_Method is this the link?

[eLhabib]

WHAT? you guys lost me about 20 posts ago... :robot

[mdhay]

Link is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_multistep_method

By the way, Lance, Arthur Dent says "6×7".

[omega329]

:brickwall I'm really sorry, but I'm still getting the same "no article"thing , I'm using opera 9.5 beta if that makes any difference. Anyway, this thread is going off topic so i think we should go back to talking about ages.
EDIT: WTF? it's working now! yaay! I can go confuse myself even more!

[omega329]

/q_dmc12, here's the relation:

14th NOV 1993 wo0t, I think that makes ME the youngest active member:lol
I'm 14, 6'2", spend most of my time with 6th formers, can't remember the last time I had a decent conversation with someone my own age and recently did a maths paper in which I got the highest mark in the school beating people two years above me:rolleyes: god, I'm a geek.

EDIT:Wait, What the hell am I on about? 1994 is after 1993! I'm the SECOND youngest active member, and they said I was good at maths!
This started off a talk about "new maths" and I happened to have mentioned 42

I might be one of the most off-topic people on this forum, and I wish I wasn't. I don't want a reputation, I've allready got one as being bad at maths.

[Lance]

You should abdicate. We've been offtopic enough in this thread for awhile.

So, gentleman, back on topic, please.

[omega329]

"Must... find... fatal flaw... in lance's hypothesis..."

Don't trust my maths, this is coming from the guy who though 1994 was before 1993!

[q_dmc12]

Don't trust my maths, this is coming from the guy who though 1994 was before 1993!

It is, if you go back in time to 1992 and change the numbering system:dizzy

[element42]

Try some of these:
http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/imo/imo03.html