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#26 2012-03-02 01:27:46
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
I forgot the problem and the solution, solved it again in a different way and now cannot remember that!
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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#27 2012-03-02 01:30:32
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Re: Bafflers?
That's bad!
I'll take a note of the solution, very good recurrence.
"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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#28 2012-03-02 01:32:44
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Re: Bafflers?
Yes, write everything down, now! Do not wait for later is a good rule.
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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#29 2012-03-02 01:40:14
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Re: Bafflers?
It's done!
"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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#30 2012-03-02 01:53:10
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi;
Thanks for looking at the problem. I am writing down the solution also.
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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#31 2012-03-02 01:57:35
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Re: Bafflers?
I enjoyed it.
"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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#32 2012-03-02 02:10:25
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi;
I am going to get a little rest, see you later.
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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#33 2012-03-03 09:43:07
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi bobbym
Can you help with getting the solution. Even these are hard for me.
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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#34 2012-03-03 10:05:23
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi anonimnystefy;
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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#35 2012-03-03 10:52:08
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi bobbym
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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#36 2012-03-03 10:55:38
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Re: Bafflers?
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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#37 2012-03-03 10:58:29
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi bobbym
I don't understand how you got that.
EDIT: nevermind, I got it
Last edited by anonimnystefy (2012-03-03 11:00:36)
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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#38 2012-03-03 11:03:01
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Re: Bafflers?
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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#39 2012-03-03 11:07:33
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Re: Bafflers?
Read #38 again.
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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#40 2012-03-03 11:11:07
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Re: Bafflers?
Oh, I did not see that you edited your post.
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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#41 2012-03-03 11:15:39
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi bobbym
Yes I do.
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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#42 2012-03-03 11:21:00
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Re: Bafflers?
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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#43 2012-03-03 11:35:30
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi bobbym
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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#44 2012-03-03 11:42:43
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Re: Bafflers?
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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#45 2012-03-03 11:45:51
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
On my desktop our laptop I would've took time to write all that.I just cannot force myself to LaTeX on my phone.
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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#46 2012-03-03 11:47:53
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Re: Bafflers?
Why the heck are you using one of those dinky screened, micro keyboarded, wimpy phones instead of a desktop?
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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#47 2012-03-03 11:54:42
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
Because it's late.
Back to the problem.I just done the recursion, stick in 10 and I'm done?
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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#48 2012-03-03 11:56:40
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi;
That is one way. There are others.
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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#49 2012-03-03 12:04:57
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Re: Bafflers?
The other would be to find all the elements up to the tenth one from the formula.But the other one is the fun way.
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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#50 2012-03-03 12:05:57
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Re: Bafflers?
Fun? Maybe... What if there were 10^12 iterations?
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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