Here it is. Now go out there and calculate some trajectories.Heinlein said it best:
“Always listen to experts. They will tell you what cannot be done and why.
“Then do it.”
Would love to see his calc sheets.
Amazing. One would think just for practical reasons, for example accurate artillery aiming, there would have been a solution although I guess the partial solutions were good enough.
Here it is. Now go out there and calculate some trajectories.As a white-Indian he won’t be getting any affirmative action grants from Harvard.
Congratulations to a great kid. Nice self-effacing lad too.
“”When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, ‘well, there’s no harm in trying,’” he said.”
“Despite not speaking a word of German when he arrived, Ray will this week sit Germany’s high school leaving exams, two years ahead of his peers.”
I came to America when I was 6 speaking only German. I blame my stepdad for not teaching me calculus when I was 6 like Shouryya Ray’s dad did. lol.
I know about a whole bunch of Germans, VC and Woggies who, in the last few miliseconds of their lives, thought we had that problem prety well solved....
Surprise! The newspaper got it wrong. The correct word is “naivete’” (The correct punctuation on the second “e” should be what is known as a “circumflex”, but I could not find out how to post that, it’s French).
Wow....if this kid was in an American school...the jocks would beat him up for being a NERD....and the school would say it was HIS fault!!
And it turns out to have been junk journalism.
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