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Use it all the time:
2 Good
2 Be
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4 Gotten
Have a nice day.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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That's mathematics, not programming.
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den2k88 wrote: math is...
They'll all be located in North America. The rest of us use the correct word: "maths is...".
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- Homer
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Being not anglophone I tend to mix and match UK and US spelling and pronounciation, sometimes willfully (i.e. I pronounce sKedule instead of sCHedule because it's more intuitive coming from Italian). Add to that the fact that Maths is actually singular in italian... I have a strange writing / speaking pattern.
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There is nothing strange your about your writing / speaking pattern at all.
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Interesting. The only math I ever used as a software developer is some pretty basic statistics. And I hated statistics as a student
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When I had to use statistics I understood how much I didn't understand in high school. And I was top of the class in statistics!
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..and even the 'basic' statistics are beyond our managers....
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Every time I'm asked to do some math, I always start at 1+1 and work my way from there.
I always like math at school, got good grades even if I was never really good at it, (or felt like it).
Anecdotal, I crapped a test on Fourier Transform in one of our Theoretical Computer Science course, We had to do something with it to reduce some equations, but I indexed one of the sequence at 1 instead of 0, it never converged.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: I always start at 1+1 and work my way from there
How hard could that possibly be? The Universe of Discourse : 1+1=2[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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2 & 2 = 22
2 + 2 = 4
Just saying.
P.S. This only makes sense if you are speaking like an American. Many will use "and" instead of "plus" when adding.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Actually, it only makes sense if you're speaking Visual Basic. In any sensible language, 2 & 2 == 2 .
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You're right about the usage of 'and' instead of 'plus' by americans. Considering this, how do you come to "2 & 2 (which is 2 plus 2) = 22" ? I don't get it. I might be slow this morning...
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Since I can't figure out superscripting, please read B^2 as B squared ...
Let A = B
Multiply both sides by B: AB = B^2
Add B^2 to each side: AB + B^2 = 2B^2
Subtract 2AB from each side: B^2 - AB = 2B^2 -2AB
(B^2 - AB ) = 2*(B^2 - AB)
1 = 2
QED.
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Subtract 2AB from each side: B^2 - AB = 2B^2 -2AB
Issue found
I'm doing a lot of these mistakes anyway.
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Easier if you say if
(B^2 - AB) = 2*(B^2 - AB)
then given
B^2 = AB
you have
1 * (0) = 2 * (0)
giving
0 = 0
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Yep, I told you I was making a lot of mistakes? I also added a proof.
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Since I can't figure out superscripting, please read B^2 as B squared ... Surround with <sup></sup> like:
B2
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Makes sense, perhaps I should have tried that ...
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Division by zero will do that to you.
BB-AB = 0
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It will depend on what you work with.
But I think people that are bad at maths probably make bad programmers, since logics is so important.
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Ooh, signal processing? That is cool.
Every day is a learning day... recently I had to use Welford standard deviation to calculate a running standard deviation. I did not even know that was possible without storing all of the numbers.
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Brushless motor control, which is signal processing (especially when factoring in PWM sinusoids and EM emission control).
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