'Lineage'
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.
Thankfully, my choice of home being a third floor apartment with 70 miles of semi-clogged highway between it and my parents' house means visitation is on my terms unless medical necessity intrudes.
I had to forego a haircut tonight because the lone stylist had someone under the dryer, apparently a supervision-intensive process that makes it impossible to cut another person's hair at any point in a half hour period. I believe the Mastercuts manager and I will be having a discussion this weekend.
I've been looking at that Chinese math exam problem. [link] I'm having some, well, issues with it. I'm not sure if it's a translation issue or what. Parts i and iii both ask about finding the angle between two lines that, as far as I can tell, don't intersect. Now, for part i, I can sort of finagle the "Show these two lines are perpendicular" into "show that these two lines lie on perpendicular planes," which might be what they're looking for, but it's horribly worded. Part iii, I can only guess that they mean to find the angle between two lines with the slopes that those two segments have, but my answer would really be "the angle between those two lines does not exist."
Part ii, though, looks like an interesting problem. I kind of gave up for now because I can't remember enough analytic geometry.
The British problem, parts i and ii are both from a standard 4th or 5th grade curriculum in the US. Part iii isn't taught until later, but answering it requires nothing other than remembering a definition.
Really, from a "how to write a test" standpoint, I'm not too thrilled with either problem. But I really want to know what they're actually asking in that Chinese one.
Hil, I'm so glad to hear your take on those math problems. Of the Chinese one, Part ii was the only part I could understand.
Weird decor of the day
If that were cheap I might be tempted.
Based on the crowd on the train home I'm guessing... Detroit beat the White Sox?
I wish I had popcorn.
That would be good right now.
I have popcorn!
I wish I had wine.
taunter.
I have wine!
I'm not sure if it's a translation issue or what. Parts i and iii both ask about finding the angle between two lines that, as far as I can tell, don't intersect.
That's my reading too. Maybe they missed a subscript in the first question? Though I think they still wouldn't intersect.
What does "foot of perpendicular" mean?
What does "foot of perpendicular" mean?
It's a common substitute for eye of newt, when the latter is unavailable.