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#1 2011-06-27 18:31:35
- tony123
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#2 2011-06-27 19:32:24
- gAr
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Re: solve
Hi tony123,
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense" - Buddha?
"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
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#3 2011-06-27 20:31:23
- bobbym
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Hi tony123;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#4 2011-06-27 22:38:16
- anonimnystefy
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Re: solve
why is the one in the a a contradiction.
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#5 2011-06-27 23:17:30
- bobbym
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Because the equation x^4 - 4 = 0 has only 2 real roots. As b partly shows when x is either of them it does not equal 4.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#6 2011-06-27 23:38:11
- anonimnystefy
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It has nowhere been specified in which set of numbers is the solution.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#7 2011-06-27 23:40:51
- anonimnystefy
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And it's not like a expression can't have several values e.g. Grandi's series.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#8 2011-06-27 23:42:57
- bobbym
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Re: solve
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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