Does the fact that a circle can not be quadrable depress or annoy you in any way?

[BigRedChief]

College Algera almost killed me. I have no desire to go beyond that level.

but in my field(I.T.)and at my level they tell everyone to get a high level of math skills before entering the field. I never saw the strict corelation.

Sure we have to know A + B = C and then someone says "G" is broke and all you did was A+B=C. So you have to figure out how "G" was effected but is not part of the equation. But I don't know how taking high level math skill courses in college would have helped me do this on a daily basis. In my experience you either have this skill or not. Sure you can get better but its still an inert skill, not something learned in a class.

[Fish]

Math is the universal language. It spans the entirety of the universe. It binds everything.

Most people never realize how much they use it in their everyday lives. Language, art, music, all based on mathematics.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. ~John Kemeny

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ~Mark Twain

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ~Gottfried Leibniz

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ~Euclid

[Buck]

Three guests check into a hotel. The clerk says the bill is $30 so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify he gives the bellhop five dollars to return to the guests. On the way back to the room the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to give each guest a dollar and keep two for himself.

Now that the guests have been given a dollar back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But, 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining dollar?

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding

Three guests check into a hotel. The clerk says the bill is $30 so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify he gives the bellhop five dollars to return to the guests. On the way back to the room the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to give each guest a dollar and keep two for himself.

Now that the guests have been given a dollar back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But, 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining dollar?

Taxes are a bitch.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding

Three guests check into a hotel. The clerk says the bill is $30 so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify he gives the bellhop five dollars to return to the guests. On the way back to the room the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to give each guest a dollar and keep two for himself.

Now that the guests have been given a dollar back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But, 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining dollar?

Ha ha. Tricky

They didn't pay $30 in the end, only $27.

(3 x 9) - 2 = 25 (amount of final bill)

[Jenson71]

There are a few colleges, and maybe high schools - but I doubt it, that teach math by reading books. So, if you were like me, you were assigned 30 problems from a textbook due by the beginning of class the next day. But instead of that stuff, at these Great Book schools, their math assignment is to read a chapter of Euclid's Elements, for example. I think I would have greatly preferred this latter version of learning math. Anyone have opinions about this? Is it helpful, productive, useless, etc? Anyone go to a Great Book school?

[FAX]

The concept of Pi kind of pisses me off. Does that count?

FAX

[Buck]

If you are a math nut like me go to wikipedia and search "List of Paradoxes"

Prepare to waste the next 2 hours of your precious time there.

P.S. thats where I got that earlier paradox.

[Pablo]

I just got out of my Business and Economic Forecasting class.

Math is teh suxorz and teh know phun.

[KCCHIEFS27]

The transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons(why does this word have a red squiggly line underneath it?)..this is really crazy for those that haven't seen it yet..

[Buck]

Originally Posted by KCCHIEFS27

The transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons(why does this word have a red squiggly line underneath it?)..this is really crazy for those that haven't seen it yet..

Thats cool, it makes sense though.

[lazepoo]

Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding

Thats cool, it makes sense though.

That was cool.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Firestone???

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Nice.

Somebody stole that movie from me.