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offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2005-11-28 12:09 [#01789180]
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what is the last math course youve completed? for some
reason, i expect there will be some scary mathematics listed
in this thread that no one has ever heard before, only
taught to the most articulate and well-trained, genius minds
here on xltronic...

(algebra 2 for me !)


 

offline mimi on 2005-11-28 12:10 [#01789181]
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i hardly got any further than you, i only took a semester of
functions, statistics and trigonometry.


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2005-11-28 12:11 [#01789182]
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GCSE. Grade C. Lazy, I guess.


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2005-11-28 12:15 [#01789185]
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integral calculus


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-28 12:17 [#01789189]
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I stopped at the first year of.. eh.. videregående.. in
other words I haven't had maths since I was 16.


 

offline ToXikFB on 2005-11-28 12:17 [#01789191]
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im useless at maths.


 

offline yann_g from now on 2005-11-28 12:20 [#01789196]
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french gcse. 20/20, no kidding.


 

offline yann_g from now on 2005-11-28 12:21 [#01789198]
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without listening even once and even less writing my
lessons.


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-11-28 12:27 [#01789201]
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The last thing I did was GCSE maths, but I've just started
doing an oceanography degree, which involves a lot of maths
and physics.

So I am re-teaching myself both, because there is some
pretty mental (to me at least) maths involved.


 

offline tridenti from Milano (Italy) on 2005-11-28 12:42 [#01789211]
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Same here. I fucking hate it.


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-11-28 12:44 [#01789212]
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Do something about it then. Go buy a textbook and work your
way through it.

:B


 

offline Dolleater from Afrika Bambaataa on 2005-11-28 12:57 [#01789220]
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Im taking some oceanography classes to fullfill my science
requirements. I chose them because I didnt think there would
be much math involved. but I spend 90% of my time making
conversions and using formulas. As a non-science major, I
was hardly pleased to learn about the Density factor and
seismic reflection profiling. I am very, very bitter now.


 

offline tridenti from Milano (Italy) on 2005-11-28 12:58 [#01789222]
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I already bought it but nothing to do mate... Me and maths
are two different things :p


 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2005-11-28 15:11 [#01789323]
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discrete mathematics



 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-11-28 15:20 [#01789328]
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i completed 253 which is like the 3rd term of calculus or
s-thing. need 2 go back 2 skool


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2005-11-28 15:21 [#01789329]
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YOU DO THE MATH!

BIG TIME!!

HAHAHAHA big time......you do the math are the funniest
phrases in the world.


 

offline OK on 2005-11-28 16:03 [#01789359]
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i'm a mathematician. well, not yet but like in a year i will
be officially


 

offline OK on 2005-11-28 16:04 [#01789360]
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this semester i'm taking:
Calculus of variatios
Differential Topolgy
Partial Differential Equatios I
Logic II
and History of mathemathics I


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2005-11-28 16:04 [#01789361]
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I'm currently doing an Electrical and Electronic
engineering degree, which has some tricky maths!
Fourier, laplace, tons of calculus, trig, matrices, more
letters than numbers in equations. fun fun fun.....


 

offline QRDL from Poland on 2005-11-28 16:12 [#01789365]
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What is Algebra 2? I did take a course called Linear Algebra
2. It involved transformations in and of spaces. Some of it
was quite difficult and I ended up memorising the ways to
solve certain problems, which I don't usually do.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-11-28 16:33 [#01789378]
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Linear Algebra usually comes after Calc here, Algebra 2
would be pre-calc, or just before the class called Pre-Calc
or something.

Matrices; I'm surprised I got this far and i don't really
know what matrices are. I think they have something to do
with handling imaginary numbers or roots of polynomials or
something, among other uses? Somehow I must have skirted
around that area of knowledge; I always seemed to go through
tests 'on the fly' as it were, figuring out what I was doing
as I went along. I hate to study.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-11-28 16:40 [#01789381]
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discrete math
lots of math in EE classes but that was the last "math"
class ive had, after all the calcs


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-11-28 17:24 [#01789394]
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linear algebra was the first thing we got at university,
that and the usual integral stuff part two, so that's when i
learned i


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-11-28 17:25 [#01789395]
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math is cool, you should read asimov's foundation series


 

offline sean qunt from BELFAST on 2005-11-28 17:47 [#01789400]
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its "maths" plural, didn't you hillbillies go to a
polytechnic? =)


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2005-11-28 17:50 [#01789401]
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yanks always say math now you mention it.

I got an A at GCSE. I do some stats and physics type maths
now because I do a science degree.


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-11-28 18:01 [#01789409]
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I didn't quite fathom how much maths this degree entailed
before I started. Still, I'm enjoying it, getting better at
it all the time and I feel like I am doing something more
productive with my time than getting wasted every weekend.

I only got a D for GCSE maths, but I think that was down to
the amount of getting hammered and/or chasing girls I was
doing at the time. I'm not a thickie by a long shot.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-28 18:09 [#01789415]
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lim e^n * n!

n->inf. ------------- = sqrt(2 * pi)

n^n * sqrt(n)


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-11-28 18:12 [#01789420]
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i completed Calculus lvl 4 in college but i'll be damned if
i can remember a lick of it. the only maths that really
stuck with me all these years is algebra.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-28 18:13 [#01789421]
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sqrt


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-28 18:13 [#01789424]
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sqrt


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-11-28 18:16 [#01789429]
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:B


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-28 18:17 [#01789431]
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8 = > sqrt


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2005-11-28 19:34 [#01789464]
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Maths? evolume? You joiner.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-11-28 19:38 [#01789466]
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oops yeah sorry, i meant arithmeticses


 

offline oyvinto on 2005-11-29 00:24 [#01789562]
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i'm an engineer. MSc in OMG.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-11-29 00:53 [#01789567]
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12th grade math, though actually I stopped going to that
class three-fourths into the year and failed! So I guess I
really only have 11th grade math. I never took another math
course after that, though when I go back to school I guess I
might have to do one or three as a formality. Didn't take
one during the first two years of uni.



 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-11-29 04:24 [#01789584]
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1+1


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-11-29 09:32 [#01789785]
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second year maths in university

we've done set theory, graph theory, circuit theory...

nothing near as difficult as the logic we did in 1st year in
logic/prolog class. the logic we did in our actual 1st year
maths class was piss easy.

uni maths is no laughing matter :(


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-29 09:34 [#01789788]
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sqrt


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-11-29 09:36 [#01789790]
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i thought you did linguistics?


 

offline QRDL from Poland on 2005-11-29 09:39 [#01789792]
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You did prolog?! What a peculiar language, innit?


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2005-11-29 09:47 [#01789798]
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I took my last math class in the 11th grade of high school.
I don't remember what we covered, all I can tell you is it
involved the unit circle, Sine/cosine/tangent stuff,
radians, etc. Ever since I changed schools in elementary
and missed a year of math I coudln't catch up and was shit
at it every year afterward. To this day I need a calculator
to do even basic multiplication and division, it's
pathetic.

Good thing I went into communications in college. No math
or science requirements at all.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-11-29 09:53 [#01789800]
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heh, you said 'unit'


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2005-11-29 10:16 [#01789815]
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BSc in physics so we did some crazy calculus maths like
z-transforms, bessel function sand all that jazz. Handy
stuff.

I had a eureka! moment in college when i finally saw how
complex numbers (sqrt of negative numbers) manifest in the
real world . Its hard to explain but one application has got
to do with decaying processes in optics.

Matrices were fun!

Fermats last theorem is the last time i had anything to do
with maths. I solved it while listening to "vic acid" one
time, but i forgot to claim my prize. :P


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-11-29 11:00 [#01789838]
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i hate math


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-11-29 11:24 [#01789856]
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Diffrential Equations was the last useful math class I had.
And then there's the useless tripe called Integral Calculus
with complex numbers. Actualy it wasn't completely
worthless... there's the cool Algernon Effect I get when
looking over my old notebooks :)


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-11-29 11:42 [#01789863]
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math is fun


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