AH maths

[Devlinator]

Is it just me or is anyone else out there starting to really enjy AH maths? i mean inverse functions, second derivatives of implicit functions, polar form of imaginary numbers. Who actually, thinks this stuff up!!!!??

[relliott]

ah, oh how I miss Gaussian Elimination, inversion of matrices and superpolylogarithmicexponential functions

*wonders what song that could sound like...*

[andrewbaillie]

supercallyfragilisticexpialidocious

[relliott]

superpolylpgarithmicexponential functions
faster than a a polylog but a slower exponential
if you do them often enough they're clearly quintessential
superpolylogarithmic exponential functions

umdiddleyumdiddleyumdiddleyaye......

I suppose if all else fails in the exam, just write a song about it and see if you get the marks that way :)

[Devlinator]

Or just think what i do, which is

If all else fails
If there seems no hope
Turn to logs, they are the answer and
Logman will come to rescue!!

[relliott]

thou art officially madder than me

[hugbug3000]

DON'T talk to me about logs...... I mean, really, what are they??? and why do they have such a silly name?? And really, how do they help??

not to mention blinking everything else about the course.... so, enjoying it, no, that's not the word......

[elliottsimpson]

Before the days of calculators, there were slide rules (which was nothing to do with changing moral standards). Before the slide rules was the logarithm - the number of the power of 10 required to give the number you first thought of, I think.

10 to the power zero = 1, to the power one = 10, to the power some figure between 0 and 1 = a number between 1 and 10.

This gave rise to the horrendous school time joke.

The ark had settled safely back on dry land and Noah told the animals to "go forth and multiply" (which was the only time that's been said without it being considered in bad taste). Two snakes remained behind. "Please sir, we can't multiply because we're adders". "You do the best you can and I'll come back in a year and see how you're getting on".

A year later and Noah finds there are still only 2 adders. "The problem is", they say, "we don't feel at home here" - the ark must have drifted a bit. So Noah built them a log cabin and a complete set of log furniture (long before the days of Ikea) - dinning room, lounge, bedroom - the lot.

A year later Noah could hardly get through the crowds of snakes to reach the log cabin to find the original pair of adders. "This is great" he said. "How did you manage?" "Well, once we found the log tables you had left us, the rest was easy!"

Boom, boom - as Basil Brush used to say. (Who?)

[hugbug3000]

indeed............

[Devlinator]

That is just such a bad joke. Also as someone thinks that i am madder than them, i was wandering if we could have a competition to find the maddest, or just plain scariest person on this site.

All nominations must be in by tommorow, and please dont nominate yourself, its just plain sad.

[relliott]

Elliott, do you require to borrow a gun, or would it be easier if I just shot you? ;)

[andrewbaillie]

Someones been drinking the samples in the biochem. lab again!!
:lol :lol

[hugbug3000]

OOOH OOOOH where do we nominate people then??????

[Devlinator]

I will set up athread in general Chat, all nominations by tommorow at 7pm, then we will vote to see. Oh theres my bossy and controlling side coming out again