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#1 2014-05-21 22:53:13
Let us welcome zetafunc.
Hi zetafunc.;
Nice to see you as a member.
Welcome to the forum!
What is your favorite color?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#2 2014-05-22 00:16:50
- ShivamS
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Welcome to the forum, Zetafunc!
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#3 2014-05-22 00:25:20
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Hi Zetafunc,
Welcome to the forum!
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#4 2014-05-22 01:12:10
- Bob
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
hi Zetafunc,
Welcome to the forum. 
At last! Only snag "Is this the end of your bid for the greatest number of guest posts ?"
I suppose there's nothing to stop you continuing that too.
Bob
Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you! …………….Bob
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#5 2014-05-22 01:48:27
- bobbym
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Hi zetafunc;
Welcome to the forum.
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 2014-05-22 08:37:44
- ShivamS
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
He would have had over 6000 posts by now had he registered since he first arrived.
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#7 2014-05-22 11:57:16
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Hi zf
Welcome to the forum! It's nice that you finally became a Member!
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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#9 2014-05-23 05:37:29
Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
But you did not tell me what is your favorite color?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#10 2014-05-23 07:41:03
- ShivamS
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Are you in university now?
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#11 2014-05-23 09:05:31
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#12 2014-05-23 09:09:58
- ShivamS
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Nice.
Are you going to a Russel Group university?
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#13 2014-05-23 09:18:21
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It is nice for a while, but then when you're doing absolutely nothing at all, just sitting in the kitchen drinking booze during the small hours, you feel so... filthy. Actually, that happens during term time too. There's a word we have for that over here -- it's a play on the word 'procrastination' but it's a bit too rude to post here. Yep, I go to one -- you might be able to find out which one if you looked through the FP1 thread, not sure if I should mention it though seeing as I've already had one person come up to me and ask me if I'm zetafunc!
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#14 2014-05-23 09:26:07
- ShivamS
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
They're a lot stricter over here then.
I'm probably not going to come and ask you if you are zetafunc, because you are at least a few thousand miles away. But I did come to both of Oxbridge sometime back - I really like their tutor system.
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#15 2014-05-23 14:47:37
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
one person come up to me and ask me if I'm zetafunc!
In real life?!
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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#16 2014-05-23 16:23:04
Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
By the way, doesn't the username zetafunc. have a trailing decimal point?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#17 2014-05-23 18:23:52
Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
In real life?!
Yes -- I denied it, but someone from uni asked about what I did at A-level. My answer was pretty distinctive and they matched what I posted in that thread, which led them to think I was zetafunc. But I'm not too bothered by it, not the end of the world if they know. It's a year with 200+ mathematicians, a lot of whom regularly look at maths forums. It's mostly The Student Room that they use, but I guess 1 person does look at this forum on occasion.
My username did have a trailing decimal point, but I decided to be super-adventurous and live dangerously by omitting it!
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#18 2014-05-23 19:47:39
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
I am amazed that they actually would look here. If they find this then the secret is 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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#19 2014-05-23 20:06:52
Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
I am amazed that they actually would look here. If they find this then the secret is out.
If you google "FP1 linear interpolation formula" -- which a lot of A-level students would do -- the thread comes up as the second result. It was just one person who mentioned it, and he wasn't sure if zetafunc actually went to UCL, just that we did the same A-levels. The reason is that there are only 50 people in the country who did one of the subjects I mentioned, and even fewer with my particular subject combination. I think my 'secret' is fairly safe, however -- don't think it'll compromise anything.
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#20 2014-05-23 20:13:14
- bobbym
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
If they find this thread, is the secret safe then?
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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#22 2014-05-23 20:18:25
- bobbym
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
And the part of the dropped .?
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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#24 2014-05-23 20:23:01
- bobbym
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Re: Let us welcome zetafunc.
Do you want me to add it back?
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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