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#26 2012-07-26 06:07:14
- anonimnystefy
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
Euler.
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#27 2012-07-26 06:22:35
- bobbym
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
I was speaking of modern, living mathematicians.
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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#28 2012-07-26 06:30:55
- anonimnystefy
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
But you're a thousand years old!
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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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#29 2012-07-26 06:31:31
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
But I am living, sort of. Euler is gone.
Also, I am not a mathematician!
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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#30 2012-07-26 06:37:16
- anonimnystefy
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
You're not dead?
Oh, yeah. You're a numerical analyst. And the best one was a chemist. Makes sense. But, if you're not a mathematician then the rules don't apply to you. You can have two constants with your name on it. What is the one you had in mind?
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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#31 2012-07-26 06:40:08
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
About time you learned his name.
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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#32 2012-07-26 06:45:08
- anonimnystefy
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
I remember that problem. Isn't it one of the ones you came up with?
This is the easiest one:
Evaluate the above integral to as many digits as you can. Find a good way to do so.
Is that analyst Robert Israel?
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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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#33 2012-07-26 06:53:05
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
Nope, Robert is good but not that good. It is the legendary Forman S. Acton.
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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#34 2012-07-26 06:56:40
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Oh, he's the author of that book you mentioned "Numerical Methods That Work".
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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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#35 2012-07-26 07:00:40
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Re: The Two Trains and How Fast
That is correct. If you have a problem to solve, if it is a numerical problem, then you bring it to him. You do not bother with a mathematician!
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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