I am enchanted by the math, but I do not know from whence it came.
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2005 11:50:46 am PDT #1168 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
msbelle - Jun 10, 2005 11:56:31 am PDT #1169 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
so, I am at work, not doing work and no one else is really here and so it is quiet and peaceful and whatnot. That is nice. Natter is put put putting, though, yes? are people working? or not at work? or too bored to post?
-t - Jun 10, 2005 11:57:50 am PDT #1170 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm at work, not working, but was all caught up in doing math. And now I'm going home.
Vortex - Jun 10, 2005 11:58:00 am PDT #1171 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
It was the math talk. It drove people away
tommyrot - Jun 10, 2005 11:58:32 am PDT #1172 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm sulking because no one cares about the sheep urine bus.
Kidding.
I'm the only one here now. So no one will know if I go home early.
I have concocted a clever plan which relies upon this fact....
Emily - Jun 10, 2005 11:58:49 am PDT #1173 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
What I did to make it work, -t (like how I fold and spindle my sentence structure to avoid the hyphen at the beginning of the line?) is the following:
There's a bar vertically down the center which is 1 by x. There's another one horizontally which overlaps, so: x + x - x^2. Then you have the 4 triangle bits, each of which have a hypotenuse of x, so you could put them all together (hypotenuses out) to form a square of side x, so: 2x - x^2 + x^2 = 2x. So the only thing outside the octagon is four more little triangles which are exactly the same, so another x^2, and that fills out the original square, so: x^2 (outer triangles) + 2x (horizontal and vertical bars) = 1 (area of original square), so x^2 + 2x - 1 = 0.
More tangrams than geometry, but there you have it.
msbelle - Jun 10, 2005 12:00:16 pm PDT #1174 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the urine bus disturbs me. moreso wondering why someone came up with the idea.
Amy - Jun 10, 2005 12:00:49 pm PDT #1175 of 10001
Because books.
There's a bar vertically down the center which is 1 by x. There's another one horizontally which overlaps, so: x + x - x^2. Then you have the 4 triangle bits, each of which have a hypotenuse of x, so you could put them all together (hypotenuses out) to form a square of side x, so: 2x - x^2 + x^2 = 2x. So the only thing outside the octagon is four more little triangles which are exactly the same, so another x^2, and that fills out the original square, so: x^2 (outer triangles) + 2x (horizontal and vertical bars) = 1 (area of original square), so x^2 + 2x - 1 = 0.
That? Makes me want to run screaming. I don't know how you mathy types do it.
Emily - Jun 10, 2005 12:00:54 pm PDT #1176 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Sorry, everybody. I have about a month and a half to cover linear algebra, discrete math, trigonometry, and number theory, so that's pretty much my main focus (especially since I only have the rest of the month before I'm doing two clases as well).
Amy - Jun 10, 2005 12:02:19 pm PDT #1177 of 10001
Because books.
I have about a month and a half to cover linear algebra, discrete math, trigonometry, and number theory
Oh, I think it's fascinating, don't get me wrong. Just that...if it was "Do that or equation or I'll kill you!" I'd be a very dead girl.
I'm not proud of it, but I am a math loser in every way.