Posted on 01/24/2009 6:43:23 PM PST by Daffynition
I used that trick in a math exam, sophomore year. I could not get the proof, so I multiplied both side by zero and added the right answer. Got me an “A”. Was it cheating? Damned right it was!
$ cat birth.c
int bdays[12];
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
int i,j,N;
double drand48();
N = atoi(argv[1]);
srand48( getpid() );
for( i=0 ; i<N ; i++ ){
j = 12 * drand48();
++bdays[ j ];
}
for( i=0 ; i<12 ; i++ ) printf(”%3d “, bdays[i]);
printf(”\n”);
}
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
do
birth 20
done
0 2 0 3 1 1 4 3 4 1 1 0
1 1 1 3 2 1 0 3 3 2 2 1
0 4 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 0 2 0
1 3 3 1 5 2 1 1 0 1 1 1
0 3 3 4 1 3 1 2 0 1 0 2
3 3 0 4 0 0 2 0 4 1 1 2
1 1 2 2 0 1 2 2 2 0 2 5
0 4 3 2 1 0 1 3 2 4 0 0
1 3 1 1 0 2 3 1 3 0 3 2
1 1 3 3 1 1 0 1 2 3 1 3
I use that trick to disqualify job candidates. If they don’t go “Hey, idiot, you can’t divide by zero!”, I have security put them off the property.
Too stochastic, average them and give me the deterministic answer.
If you wish, I can send you some links about chain conditions.
Saturday night at the math follies...
Don’t drink and derive....
But, MAN, I really would like an hour alone with that book.
Er....,that book and a really good scanner.
I agree. This may be a very significant find for the history of mathematics. Maybe Archimedes would have chosen to use English letters instead of Greek letters in math proofs. Can you imagine if instead of epsilons and deltas, we had e’s and d’s arguments? Give me an e and I will find a d... Seems awful bland.
The Alexander Horned Sphere did me in!
A: Because the passengers made the Mayflower Compact!
Limp, limp, limp,.....
Maybe he used aremaic symbols. LOL.
Awwww, that hurt.
Horned sphere?
The deterministic answer to what ?
Archimedes computed the area of the curved figure (left) by enclosing it in a bigger one with straight edges (right). He then examined random slices to compute the volumeusing the concept of actual infinity.
Credit: The owner of the Archimedes Palimpsest.
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Not to be picky, but the Arabs neither invented nor discovered the ‘zero’. They borrowed it from India, as with most of the great Muslim acccomplishments.
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