Math Is Fun Forum

Mayflow

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Hi all you math fun lovers!

I have high school math and no more, but I do think math is fun and life is fun, so I hope to have some fun here and maybe learn a thing or two along the way, so I dip my toes into the waters here - no biting! :-)

Agnishom

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi;

Welcome to the forum!

What is your favorite color?

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Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi, Agnishom. Transparent Blue with transparent green hues. Yours?

Jai Ganesh

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi Mayflow,

Welcome to the forum!

My favorite color is sapphire Blue and my lucky number is 6. And yours?

Last edited by Jai Ganesh (2014-09-24 01:01:10)

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Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hey ganesh - like in that elephant from India? My fave number is 9 (decimal) 9 (hex) and 1001 binary.

Bob

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

hi Mayflow,

Welcome to the forum.

Bob

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Bob

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=21404

Bob

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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

Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Oh my gosh. Thanks Bob. That is really cool to me. Is this Hinduism?

Bob

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

It seems to be so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Chaturthi

Bob

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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

Jai Ganesh

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hey ganesh - like in that elephant from India? My fave number is 9 (decimal) 9 (hex) and 1001 binary.

I adore elephants, I am named after Lord Ganesh..I pray for Raju, the elephant's well being.

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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.

Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

I believe every being deserves freedom.

ShivamS

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Welcome to the forum!

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi;

Welcome to the forum.

I have high school math and no more,

According to Zeilberger that is all you need. I have been struggling to get that much all my life.

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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.

Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks. Well welcome to ... er well, my being on the forum? The fun thing about math to me (and mind you, most of you will likely know a lot more math than I do) is that it is about how things (numbers and units I guess) relate to one another.

What does math mean to any and all of you, and what use is it do you think?

anonimnystefy

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi Mayflow

Welcome to the forum!

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Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi Mayflow

Welcome to the forum!

Hi. Can't you have an easier to type name? Do you or would you like to have a nickname?

anonimnystefy

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Many people here call me Stefy, so you can use that.

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“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.

Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi;

Welcome to the forum.

I have high school math and no more,

According to Zeilberger that is all you need. I have been struggling to get that much all my life.

Struggle you do, success you will find, Yoda. It is only the good heart that becomes the champion. Math is a language made up by the mind of man, but math cannot explain the minds that made it up.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi;

I am afraid Yoda is incorrect there, success is an illusion.

Math is a language made up by the mind of man, but math cannot explain the minds that made it up.

I think you need philosophy for that, I just always wanted to know how many pears, apples and peaches can you distribute to 5 different kids.

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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.

Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Hi;

I am afraid Yoda is incorrect there, success is an illusion.

Math is a language made up by the mind of man, but math cannot explain the minds that made it up.

I think you need philosophy for that, I just always wanted to know how many pears, apples and peaches can you distribute to 5 different kids.

Depends on how many fruits you have divided by 5, and if you want to distribute them equally.

Besides I am not Yoda. Isn't your Avatar of Yoda?

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Yep, that is the one and only Yoda.

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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.

Mayflow

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

Then I shall be as Kwan Yin, Goddess of the Sacred Wind. Her names are many. Yoda is accepted in her sacred fraternity, as are all.

ShivamS

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

The thing I like most is the formalism and rigour.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

I think she is too tall for Yoda.

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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.

anonimnystefy

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Re: Hi all you math fun lovers!

How can you know without a point of reference?

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“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.