Just thought I'd let the world know. Well, the fforum at any rate. As if you didn't already, but there you go...

It means I have to work on my graphs tonight instead of finishing off Schizm. My computer game. Darn.

Anyone else played schixm and know how to get the guy asking for oil to appear?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

I can sympathise with the cursework. Particuarly the mechanics side of it - I never got it in the first place, and thought I'd done really well with the equations - even getting my maths teacher to check they were ok before I handed it in. It came back with big red marks all over the equations :( At that point I gave up on the mechanics side of Maths.

I've never played Schizm - what sort of game is it (quest, shoot 'em etc?)



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

Look on the bright side. I'm only....8? years older than you, and I haven't had to do *any* maths for at least 5 years. And have no intention of doing any in the future.

So, soon, it will all be over...



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Do something pretty while you can...

Yes the good thing about finishing exams is that then you can choose what you want to do afterwards, and thank heavens you don't have to do maths... one of the joys of life in my opinion! :)



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Or you can finish your exams and then panic madly as you realise you forgot to work out what the hell you wanted to do. It's a good feeling, briefly...

you only have to do coursework once, though. It's once too many, but...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

*in a very small voice, from the back*

But I like maths...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

I couldn't disagree more. whilst I wouln't say I enjoyed my maths coursework (it was mildly tedious), I didn't mind doing it.... in fact I didn't mind doing it so much I went on to get a BA in it... these days (just over a year since i finished uni... doesn't time fly...) despite being in a numerically related job, I miss working out mathematical problems - the joy of working out things logically and /knowing/ when you have the right answer.

were there any problems in particular...?

rob, who felt someone had to stand up for maths

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I shall add no more, but that a mathematician will easily percieve it is not put in such a Dress as to be taken notice of by him, there being an abundance of Words spent to make the more ordinary sort of People understand it.
John Arbruthnot, Of The Laws of Chance (1692)

I think we must have posted simultaneously just then!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

Maths is fine, to be honest, but I always preferred taking the logical approach it required to something entirely different. It's great for working your brain, but after a while I found myself getting bored with doing the same kind of problems again and again. I liked ecology as if I got bored I could wander off down some badly lit side-alley of the subject I was supposed to be worrying about.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I like maths too, Sarah, dd thinks I'm mad of course.

Good to see I'm not the only one who doesn't totally abhor maths...

can I take that as an invitation to start telling obscure maths jokes?

rob, who has been tempted to stick this \/ in his sig since he saw sarah's

<edit>oops... I seem to have forgotten to remove my default sig from this message, and on editing can't see a way to remove it... oh well</edit>

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"And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum



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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Unless they're funnier than "There are 10 types of people who understand binary. Those who do, and those who don't."



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Feel free to love maths - I would but I'm dyslexic with numbers, hence I tend to add numbers that don't exist, which is clever but doesn't get you good grades! So it is a major relief not to have to do maths.

Didn't mean to diss those of you of a mathematical persuasion, though - I can see the beauty of the symmetry and how elegant a proper mathematical solution is, but get it right? no......



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

I quite liked balancing differential equations (at least, I think that was what it was called - it involved algebra and brackets). But that was about it. I had to do statistics in Psychology in 3rd year, and it was evil. I therefore know what a standard deviation is, but unfortunately not how to work one out. (I'd chosen an Arts degree! Why were they making me do maths???!) I fought hard to not have to take it in 4th year. And won, thankfully.



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Do something pretty while you can...

At a role-playing game, my friend Ven was temporarily struggling to add the dots on 3 dice. She looked up and said;
"You'd wouldn't believe I've got A-level maths, would you ?"

"No," we all promptly chorused.

I would - by A-Level they've banned you from using numbers...

You should have asked for a diagram.

I do like the simplicity of THE equation. I like the way it just churns out answers without any fuss or worry.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I like Pure maths - the algebra, mainly because it's working with letters, rather than numbers. Letters seem so much more logical somehow...



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

I think all maths is great. Nonlinear asymptotics is my fave. (Balancing a pendulum upside down and proving you get chaotic motion.)

Currently I'm doing some stuff on diffusion in semi-infinite media. All to do with degradation of contacts in integrated circuits. It'll make your mobiles work better... (I hope)

I'm adding up my rubber duckies. I've got .... er .... two!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

The only math I take an interest in is when there is a "$" involved. Then it's usually because there is more going out than in. It's amazing how that works....