The Geometry Question for the Day..- Page 2

[Plum]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:19pm

I have a lot of pre-med friends, so I'm well aware of the nightmare that is organic chem. Though I actually liked what little I did of it in high school

I've done stats before, too, mostly as they apply to biology, so I could do my bio independent study in high school. They're...not really my favorite thing. But then again, math just isn't my favorite thing. I'm really not looking forward to trying to start that rusty part of my brain that I haven't used in almost 2 years.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:26pm

Yup, I'm pre-med, that's why I'm doing orgo. The pre-med society (yes, we're dorks) are going to make shirts that say "the pre-med society, because misery loves company." Yeah, it's kind of hellish. I enjoy some of orgo, but the labs are just ridiculous. Eight hours is just too long. We have other classes...

I'm sorry you don't really like statistics. I took AP stats in high school and then my freshman year I took a seminar that examined interesting statistical paradoxes. It was actually rather enjoyable...They're fun. Maybe I'll post one some day.

Rodney--where are you? You can't just pose a question and then leave!!! (J/K, I just want to know if I'm right.)

[fae]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 2:56am

hey rodney... i think you may be colorblind.

sorry mathman...it's the art major in me. i would have said blue, azure, indigo, cobalt, ultramarine, teal, turquoise, sapphire, navy, royal, cerulean, beryl, even livid, but not ORANGE.

Updated On: 10/20/04 at 02:56 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 8:42am

Jess1483 and NYBroadwayNY are correct.

The others who said 2 are correct but their way of getting it doesn't work.

Remember the first rule of geometry is "don't look at the picture"

If you have a series of circles within squares, within circles, within quares like this, if you know the length of one side of a square to find the length of a side of the next smallest square simply multiply the longer length my the square root of one half.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 9:12am

Well, that would be easier than my way... I never knew that square root of 1/2 thing.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 9:36am

Good, well, maybe I should have been a math major. Calculus killed that desire though... I decided that when you could have an entire question where there were no numbers, it stopped being math.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:10am

Yes, I agree. Calculus is not math.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:12am

Thank you. I've been saying that all along...Hey, Rodney, we agreed on something!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:13am

woo hoo!

** high five **

[Plum]

Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:26am

If calc isn't math, no wonder I liked it better than analysis.