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Daniel123

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Maths is great

May I express my love for maths.

I came across the method of differences for the first time today. It's fantastic.

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Identity

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Yes, it's quite fantastic and unexpected. I still don't know how it 'works' though.

luca-deltodesco

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Ah i remember that, its a been a while since i've had to use that now

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Daniel123

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Ah i remember that, its a been a while since i've had to use that now

I started my FP1 self-teaching last night (although I'm using an old P4 book ). I plan to have finished FP1, FP2 and M2 at least by the time I break up from school (July 18th).

Out of interest, what are you planning to do at university?

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luca-deltodesco

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I'll most likely be doing a computer science joint mathematics.

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Daniel123

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I'll most likely be doing a computer science joint mathematics.

Ahh, I thought so.

luca-deltodesco

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The biggest beauty i've found in maths recently is from the FP3 module for OCR that i've been working through the last 2 weeks (Exam tomorrow) which lets us get results like this:

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Daniel123

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The biggest beauty i've found in maths recently is from the FP3 module for OCR that i've been working through the last 2 weeks (Exam tomorrow) which lets us get results like this

How did the exam go? I had C3 today. I should get 100, but I noticed so many of my mistakes, I wonder how many more there were.

One of my mistakes was:

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luca-deltodesco

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I did mostly fine, any marks lost will be stupid mistakes, except for one part of one question that pretty much stumped me! (eek) or i say stumped, i managed to half way work through it, but didn't manage to take it all the way to get the given result, i sort of had the given result, plus some silly looking thing that i couldn't manage to get rid of it was 6 marks, so i might get 3 or 4, i should still get an A atleast, i really don't aim for 100% especcialy not when i only gave myself 2 weeks to work through the module

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Daniel123

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I did mostly fine, any marks lost will be stupid mistakes, except for one part of one question that pretty much stumped me! (eek) or i say stumped, i managed to half way work through it, but didn't manage to take it all the way to get the given result, i sort of had the given result, plus some silly looking thing that i couldn't manage to get rid of it was 6 marks, so i might get 3 or 4, i should still get an A atleast, i really don't aim for 100% especcialy not when i only gave myself 2 weeks to work through the module

I don't think A's are particularly difficult to get. From how I think I've done in my 5 maths modules so far, I'm already 16/17 marks into an A before having taken the last exam. 2 weeks is impressive, although I haven't looked at FP3 at all yet. I'm annoyed I didn't start teaching myself maths earlier, but if I continue at this rate I'll be finished FP1 in the next few days

amish

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Dan C3 was ACE for me, better than expected. C4 was ok. Rates of change i hardly answered

Daniel123

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Apart from forgetting units on the rates of change question, I think I've got full marks everywhere else

Daniel123

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The biggest beauty i've found in maths recently is from the FP3 module for OCR that i've been working through the last 2 weeks (Exam tomorrow) which lets us get results like this:

I attended a few lectures today, one of which was on the Mandelbrot set. I was in awe - truly thrilling.

luca-deltodesco

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ah fractals i've messed around with them alot over the years, including extending the mangelbrot set to 4 dimensions through quaternions

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Daniel123

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I wish I had computer skills.

You've gotta love the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEw8xpb1aRA

Devantè

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One of my mistakes was:

Erm ... may I ask how you managed to get that result? O_o

Daniel123

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One of my mistakes was:

Erm ... may I ask how you managed to get that result? O_o

I think I've taken the 1 across to the other side, and then just merged it with the 3.

Devantè

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Re: Maths is great

May I express my love for maths.

I came across the method of differences for the first time today. It's fantastic.

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