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#851 Re: This is Cool » Marble Adding Machine » 2007-08-19 18:46:10

I don't get why you people love this machine so much... it's unwieldy and can only perform calculations up to a certain degree. My calculator could do what it does much better.

#852 Re: Introductions » Homeschooler » 2007-08-19 18:40:07

Indeed. The internet has such great potential, as long as it is not squandered.

#853 Help Me ! » Why is it that... » 2007-08-17 14:23:26

Identity
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In pre-calculus you concentrate on about 10 different types of graphs (y=x, y=2^x, y=x^4, y=sin(x)) etc, but in calculus you are given all sorts of random graphs from all over the place and you're supposed to differentiate or integrate them without even knowing what they are?

#854 Re: Help Me ! » Logarithm Tables Calculation » 2007-08-16 23:11:30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm# … _logarithm

Some infinite series that converge to natural logarithms. To convert them to base 10 logs, simply divide by the natural log of 10.

#856 Re: Help Me ! » Negative *Negative » 2007-08-15 18:50:25

Perhaps a more suitable explanation could be given if you could tell us what level your maths is at.

#857 Re: This is Cool » Space Hotel by 2012 » 2007-08-15 18:46:06

I'd like to see the space hotels like the space station in 2001: A space odyssey. It even had a bar! Just like a hypermodern hotel.

#858 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » High paid jobs » 2007-08-13 19:03:30

Physicists probably wouldn't get paid that much, no matter what they were researching, but they sure get paid a lot.

#859 Re: Formulas » Coordinate Geometry Formulas » 2007-08-11 23:14:40

Turning point of a parabola of the form y=ax² +bx+c

    or...   

#860 Re: Formulas » Plane Geometry Formulas » 2007-08-11 22:40:27

Area of a regular n-gon if the side length is known

Where n is the number of sides of the n-gon, and s is the side length.

Area of a regular n-gon if the diagonal length is known (formulated myself tongue):

Where n is the number of sides of the n-gon and R is the length of a diagonal.

(Oh I see ganesh has the first formula in a different form)

#861 Re: Maths Is Fun - Suggestions and Comments » Subtraction » 2007-08-11 22:36:37

I find using Quick Subtraction is just as fast as normal.

#862 Re: Help Me ! » algebra exponents - which is greatest? » 2007-08-11 15:26:03

Numbers increase veeery quickly with large exponents, so you want to have the biggest one you can here.
So the answer is a, as that gives

, which is massive.

#863 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » The Atom Smasher » 2007-08-09 09:22:59

Well actually, from what I've heard at least, Hawking Radtiation has respectable mathematical support, but, well, you can never be too sure. Quadratic Applications may turn out 2 solutions, when only 1 is true.

#864 Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » The Atom Smasher » 2007-08-09 02:57:23

Identity
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In 2008, CERN will be unveiling their new atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. It will be 7 times more powerful than the current largest at Fermilab. Physicists at CERN say there is a very large possibility that miniature black holes will be created from the fast collisions.
According to the physicists are CERN, there is no threat to us, because due to Hawking Radiation, the black hole should theoretically only last for a fraction of second.

Does it bother you that Hawking Radiation has never been experimentally confirmed? It is just a theory. It certainly bothers me. I'm sure in the past you could find example after example of experiments which have proved theories wrong. We're risking everything for the advancement of science.

Read on:
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadr … y_concerns
http://aboutfacts.net/Science71.htm < bottom of page

#865 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » True negative gain? » 2007-08-08 23:05:53

Don't be too philosophical about maths, philosophy never got anyone anywhere. Maths is a brilliant framework for describing things, but we must remember that it is just that.

#866 Re: Help Me ! » prove » 2007-08-07 19:53:02

Wow. That is amazing!

#868 Help Me ! » Cyc » 2007-08-05 00:42:56

Identity
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What does the 'cyc' under the sum mean? Thanks.

#869 Re: Help Me ! » find x » 2007-08-04 04:28:06

I'll wager there's no analytic method to solve this... by inspection I have x=2 as one possible solution.

#870 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » Unbelievably fast mental calculations! » 2007-08-03 18:50:36

Learning the abacus actually seems like a pretty fun thing to do, and yeah, they have conducted competitions and the abacus usually beats the electronic calculator.

#871 Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » Unbelievably fast mental calculations! » 2007-08-03 05:31:20

Identity
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When I first saw this I was eek! I've known that people who study Vedic Mathematics can use various tricks to speed up calculations but this is something else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EueFhYZ4HxI&

#873 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » Harry Potter, Voldermort and the other that survives. » 2007-07-31 03:32:43

Thank god it's finally all over, the whole Voldemort reviving every 1.5 books or so was annoying.

Anyway, I don't think there will be any more books on Harry Potter because

is gonna be a whole lot  more monotonous -.-

There might be some books in the Harry Potter Universe but unless they are really good I'm not reading them because they would be money-grabbing publications.

#874 Help Me ! » Coordinates question » 2007-07-30 01:18:25

Identity
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If A has coordinates (a,b) do you say




?

My textbook always seems to say 'A is at (a,b)' rolleyes thanks

#875 Maths Is Fun - Suggestions and Comments » Member Contributions Forum » 2007-07-30 00:55:17

Identity
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I think it might be cool to have a member contribution forum, where, if you feel like writing an article, you can submit it for all to read, and mods/Mathsisfun could select good ones every now and then and format them into Mathsisfun quality articles!
They could even be about cool theorems or papers you would like to share. Even though we have 'This is Cool', it doesn't quite fulfil the purpose I think. tongue

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