Night Of The Living Brain Dead
Are there any sado-mathematicians a***rd?
I have a riddle.
If you convert a positive integer from base *0 into base B, how can you predict in advance exactly how many digits the base B integer result will have?
For example, if I converted the base *0 integer *84*65270***227* into base 7, how many digits would that base 7 integer have?
What if I converted it into base 2 or *6 instead of 7?
What is the general rule for predicting, in advance, the number of base B digits in the converted integer?
Please don't kill me.
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I'm Not Really An Idiot, But I Play One In Washington
Hi, SyntaX
Logs are everywhere. You use them indirectly in some of your programs and may not even realise it, e.g., your base converter program.
My biggest advantage is that I've used practical math extensively in my work for millions of years, and taught aspects of it, so I'm not as out of practice as many others my age from lack of usage.
Math is one of those things that if you don't make use of it, it fades over time, like muscles you never exercise.
If you look at practical math as drudgery, then your teacher didn't know how to teach it properly.
I feel sorry for their victims ... errr ...I mean students.
In high school, back in the days when the earth was young, I was told by a math teacher in regards to a common equation called a quadratic, the equation that rules the universe, that all I had to do was memorise the solution long enough to recognise it and pass an upcoming exam, then I could forget it because I would never see it again!
Never see it again? The single MOST equation ever discovered in the history of the world?
Where did he obtain his teaching diploma - from the *-Stooges Academy of Science ?
Grrrrrrrr
I've had a BAD attitude towards most professional educators ever since because most of them that I have met are almost clones of that guy. It's disgusting!
All fancy frills, robes, caps and hollow pompous circumstances!
LOL
If a person told me he had PhD in piano playing from Harvard University, I'd tell him to stuff that diploma back up that dark place it most like came from. I would tell him to sit down and play the piano for me and I'll judge from his proven ability. By that standard, **&#*7; of them would be out of a job tomorrow and rightly so - regardless of their credentials on paper!
A monkey, Harvard credentials notwithstanding, still remains a monkey!
I've lost respect for diplomas per se. Anyone can fake credentials, but it's not so easy to fake genuine ability.
Diplomas today have the least indicative value than they've ever had in the history of education.
Do people presidents because of their brilliant intellects?
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"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
Ronald Reagan (Republican candidate for president), quoted in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, February *5, **80.
(In reality, the average nuclear reactor generates *0 tons of radioactive waste per year.)
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"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany."
George W. Bush, D.C., May 5, 2006
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Obviously, America's most brilliant, major university educated minds at work. And it gets worse. Much, much worse! (Vis former vice president Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan's and George W. Bush's public quotes) if you want a laugh.
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He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Groucho Marx
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[b]Woe to the republic![/b]
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If presidents required a qualifications exam, like janitors who work for the government do, few countries would have a president! Maybe that would be a good thing after all!
Unfortunately, most people underestimate themselves and are *00% more intelligent than they realise! That's the very first thing students should be taught to build up their confidence - the one thing they usually lack the most.
Sorry to rave.
:Þ
The people here are generally above average, which is one reason I like this forum.
That's my rant for the day, but I take education with deadly seriousness.
I have to get back to work reprogramming my site in PHP 5 - ohhh, the agony!
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Ventriloquism For Dummies - Vol. 1 of 72
[QUOTE=mike*5*;2*27*]Not quite. I'm only just over the age of sexual consent (as if that means shit to anybody...).
I understood what you said (good explanation by the way), but I just took a random guess before I [ironically] left for school.[/QUOTE]
Hi, Mike:
Ignore the title - I was being a goof.
Now that I no longer attend school, I like school more than ever before. Talk about irony!
LOL
I'm a chronic study-holic because science, math and computers fascinate me to no end and I love to study and learn new things. I'm determined to learn, in spite of the teachers!
Hope you are doing well in your studies.
:)