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#626 2012-07-04 01:24:38
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
It would seem that I misunderstood your problem.
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#627 2012-07-04 01:29:04
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
How could you not?
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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#628 2012-07-04 02:37:31
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
Why would I?
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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#629 2012-07-04 02:45:05
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Re: Bafflers?
The question was not particularly well posed. I am going to give gAr full credit and then move on.
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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#630 2012-07-04 02:50:38
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
Okay. Good job, gAr.
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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#631 2012-07-04 03:02:56
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi gAr;
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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#632 2012-07-17 22:31:11
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
New Problem:
A real baffler!
What is the next term in the sequence
3,4,8,9,14,23,25,31,36,39,44,52,61,68,77,80,82,85,93,97,103,105,111,115,118,... ?
A says) I am stumped.
B says) I got it!
C says) Fantastic answer, how did you get that B?
D says) He just got lucky!
E says) Are you serious C?
Can you get it?
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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#633 2012-07-19 23:23:53
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Re: Bafflers?
Hi bobbym,
"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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#634 2012-07-19 23:39:58
- bobbym
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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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#635 2012-07-20 05:09:02
- 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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#636 2012-07-20 05:20:35
- bobbym
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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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#637 2012-07-20 05:22:39
- 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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#638 2012-07-20 05:50:11
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
You figured it out?
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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#639 2012-07-20 06:02:53
- 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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#640 2012-07-20 06:10:24
- bobbym
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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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#641 2012-07-20 06:12:17
- 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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#642 2012-07-20 06:15:22
- bobbym
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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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#643 2012-07-20 06:21:49
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
I want to try some stuff with Maxima now. I got interested in numerical methods of solvinge ODEs all of a sudden.
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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#644 2012-07-20 06:28:07
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
They used to call me kuttam.
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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#645 2012-07-20 06:30:34
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Re: Bafflers?
kuttam?
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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#646 2012-07-20 06:31:29
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
Hmmmm?! Runge Kutta has no meaning to you?
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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#647 2012-07-20 06:32:42
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
Googled it now. Didn't come across it in the Deturck-Wilf PDF I have.
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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#648 2012-07-20 06:35:06
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
With all due respect to Wilf and Deturk. Runge Kutta is the man.
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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#649 2012-07-20 06:55:22
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bafflers?
I will take a look at it.
Ya seen the new Fermi question?
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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#650 2012-07-20 06:58:17
- bobbym
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Re: Bafflers?
Yes. I did.
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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