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    #62
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Hotaru wrote: »
    It's kinda the answer. I wasn't sure whether it was C-N or O-N specifically.

    There was a picture........................................................


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    #63
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    There was a picture........................................................

    Really?

    I totally didn't google it.


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    #64
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Why didn't the exponential function go to the party?


    Because it didn't integrate.


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    #65
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    2505656136_7b2aca9221_o.jpg
    Forgive me if it's been posted before.


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    #66
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    69903601.jpg


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    #67
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    That is the single greatest thing I have read all year.


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    #68
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Davidius wrote: »
    img.
    Forgive me if it's been posted before.

    Reminds me of this:
    tshirt.gif


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    #69
    TheCardHolder
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    useless.jpg


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    #70
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Jay P wrote: »
    Why didn't the exponential function go to the party?


    Because it didn't integrate.

    :D Love that joke!

    e^x is walking down a dark alley when a differential operator jumps out and says "I'm gonna differentiate you until you've disappeared, motherfucker"
    e^x just sneers and says "Fuck you, bitch! I'm e^x. How could you possibly hurt me?"
    The operator replies "I differentiate with respect to y"

    Who said mathematics can't be "street" or "ghetto"? :pac:


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    #71
    suitcasepink
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,836 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    Errm smart people is it "I have learned" or "I have learnt"?
    I really need help!


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    #72
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I think "learned" is more common in America whereas "learnt" is more common over here. But both are correct as far as I know.


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    #73
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    deise_girl wrote: »
    Errm smart people is it "I have learned" or "I have learnt"?
    I really need help!
    I learnt

    OR

    I have learned

    I'd go with the latter. WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO MEEEEE?! :(


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    #74
    suitcasepink
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,836 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    *sighs*
    Yee both said both but you recomended two different ones..
    I give up! :P


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    #75
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Computer related question -

    Got my laptop about a year and a half ago. Used Internet Explorer as my web browser up until Octoberish last year when it became extraordinarily slow and keep closing for no reason with messages like Runtime Error! etc. popping up. I started using Firefox which was amazingly fast while Internet Explorer remained as slow and stubborn as a donkey. All was well until the last few weeks where I've noticed Firefox is getting slower and is starting to do the inconvient shutdown thing. Google Chrome on the other hand is working fantastically (just like Internet Explorer and Firefox were originally).

    Soooo... anyone know what the hell am I doing wrong? How can I fix the problem? I'm going to run out of web browsers that work properly at this rate :/


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    #76
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Hotaru wrote: »
    Soooo... anyone know what the hell am I doing wrong?
    Well your first problem was using Internet Explorer, the second was using Firefox.
    How can I fix the problem? I'm going to run out of web browsers that work properly at this rate :/

    Chrome, also delete your history and stuff when it starts to get slow and see if it helps, Ctrl-Shift-Delete in Firefox, it's in the options in Chrome but not sure if there's a keyboard shortcut, have to manually clear out your pr0n.


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    #77
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Hotaru wrote: »
    Computer related question -

    Got my laptop about a year and a half ago. Used Internet Explorer as my web browser up until Octoberish last year when it became extraordinarily slow and keep closing for no reason with messages like Runtime Error! etc. popping up. I started using Firefox which was amazingly fast while Internet Explorer remained as slow and stubborn as a donkey. All was well until the last few weeks where I've noticed Firefox is getting slower and is starting to do the inconvient shutdown thing. Google Chrome on the other hand is working fantastically (just like Internet Explorer and Firefox were originally).

    Soooo... anyone know what the hell am I doing wrong? How can I fix the problem? I'm going to run out of web browsers that work properly at this rate :/
    Clear the cache, delete your history. How much RAM have you got? :-/

    ****loads of add-ons for Firefox also slows it down I find.


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    #78
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Clear the cache, delete your history. How much RAM have you got? :-/

    ****loads of add-ons for Firefox also slows it down I find.

    I shall try that. How much RAM have I got? Absolutely no idea :p
    Pygmalion wrote: »
    Well your first problem was using Internet Explorer, the second was using Firefox.



    Chrome, also delete your history and stuff when it starts to get slow and see if it helps, Ctrl-Shift-Delete in Firefox, it's in the options in Chrome but not sure if there's a keyboard shortcut, have to manually clear out your pr0n.

    I happen to like Firefox. However, I'm envisaging a permanent move to Chrome, where it's nice and fast and doesn't run break down frequently and there's plenty of room for porn...

    Question about Chrome though, where's the File/Edit/View/History/Bookmarks/Tools options that are normally above where you type in the webiste address? Might be a stupid question but I can't seem to find them.


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    #79
    Niall09
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Niall09


    Hotaru wrote: »
    Question about Chrome though, where's the File/Edit/View/History/Bookmarks/Tools options that are normally above where you type in the webiste address? Might be a stupid question but I can't seem to find them.

    The spanner and page images at the top right of the screen are where all your options and stuff are :)


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    #80
    Ginja Ninja
    Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja


    Hotaru wrote: »
    I happen to like Firefox. However, I'm envisaging a permanent move to Chrome, where it's nice and fast and doesn't run break down frequently and there's plenty of room for porn...

    well I never.................used it for anything else
    Question about Chrome though, where's the File/Edit/View/History/Bookmarks/Tools options that are normally above where you type in the webiste address? Might be a stupid question but I can't seem to find them.

    one big drawback of google chrome is the weird layout,I kind of like the simple "box" you get in firefox/IE


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    #81
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Ginja Ninja wrote: »
    one big drawback of google chrome is the weird layout,I kind of like the simple "box" you get in firefox/IE

    That's what I prefer about Chrome though. It took a while to get used to it, but I love all the small little things it does, especially the way the address bar is the search bar as well, and if you type in one letter, your favourite website comes up automatically.


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    #82
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Jay P wrote: »
    That's what I prefer about Chrome though. It took a while to get used to it, but I love all the small little things it does, especially the way the address bar is the search bar as well, and if you type in one letter, your favourite website comes up automatically.

    This, basically I think what they're going for is getting people to use keyboard shortcuts and giving more space to the actual web page and less to toolbars. I know at one point there was a little "How-To" on the homepage that changed every time, starting with more basic stuff and moving up.


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    #83
    phlegms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭phlegms


    Google chrome makes my loins moist.


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    #84
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Chrome it is so - y'all seem entranced by it so I'll give it a shot.


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    #85
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    I don't got no Chrome on my laptop. Am too hip for that. I'm as hip and happening as something that is also hip and happening.

    In other news I'm looking at this assignment here and I may have become stumped by the simplicity of its wording. I really am not sure what exactly I'm supposed to be doing. Naturally I cannot ask for directions help on account that I have a penis.

    Besides then you'd all show me up so you would. :pac:


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    #86
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Davidius wrote: »

    In other news I'm looking at this assignment here and I may have become stumped by the simplicity of its wording. I really am not sure what exactly I'm supposed to be doing. Naturally I cannot ask for directions help on account that I have a penis.


    I am highly insulted.


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    #87
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Hotaru wrote: »
    I am highly insulted.
    What I meant to say was that I cannot ask for help because I am above the lowly mortals that post in this thread and that I should probably mention that asking for help will in fact cause one to grow an extra yet mostly useless apendage.

    Is that less insulting? :confused:


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    #88
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Davidius wrote: »
    What I meant to say was that I cannot ask for help because I am above the lowly mortals that post in this thread and that I should probably mention that asking for help will in fact cause one to grow an extra yet mostly useless apendage.

    Is that less insulting? :confused:

    No. I have asked for help twice in this thread and have not grown any extra yet mostly useless apendages. Yet. I am living proof that posting a question in the genius thread is, quite simply, genius. Plus I really want to be able to help someone with something, ANYTHING at all, so that I can prove I really am a closet genius. Yes.

    So post! :D

    Also, I was just thinking that you sound ridicously like someone I know. Called David. However, he is not in UCD so I know you're not the same person. But still, it's a bit weird.


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    #89
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Hotaru wrote: »
    No. I have asked for help twice in this thread and have not grown any extra yet mostly useless apendages. Yet. I am living proof that posting a question in the genius thread is, quite simply, genius. Plus I really want to be able to help someone with something, ANYTHING at all, so that I can prove I really am a closet genius. Yes.

    So post! :D
    Fair enough.
    Given an integer n > 1, find distinct positive integers x and y with
    1/x + 1/y = 1/n

    It seems so very simple yet I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for here hence I'm not sure what my strategy is supposed to be. I'm not sure if I'm trying to express x and y in some algebraic term, trying to find some sort of solution set or trying to simply find a single example.

    I probably shouldn't have dozed off a bit in the lecture.
    Also, I was just thinking that you sound ridicously like someone I know. Called David. However, he is not in UCD so I know you're not the same person. But still, it's a bit weird.
    What's weird is that this wouldn't be the first time I've heard that. I have been told that I reminded somebody of another David on at least three separate occasions. I'm beginning to think that I may be a stock character.

    I've also had occassions where people said they saw somebody walking around that was basically me at 30. I am secretly hoping I discover time travel at this stage.


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    #90
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Davidius wrote: »
    Fair enough.
    Given an integer n > 1, find distinct positive integers x and y with
    1/x + 1/y = 1/n

    It seems so very simple yet I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for here hence I'm not sure what my strategy is supposed to be. I'm not sure if I'm trying to express x and y in some algebraic term, trying to find some sort of solution set or trying to simply find a single example.

    I probably shouldn't have dozed off a bit in the lecture.

    My severe out-of-practiceness with Maths leaves me at a bit of a disadvantage here but I'm thinking. Which has to count for something right? ;) On first glance, x and y can be many numbers so I don't think they're looking for a single example anyway.


    Davidius wrote: »
    What's weird is that this wouldn't be the first time I've heard that. I have been told that I reminded somebody of another David on at least three separate occasions. I'm beginning to think that I may be a stock character.

    I've also had occassions where people said they saw somebody walking around that was basically me at 30. I am secretly hoping I discover time travel at this stage.

    I'd say all Davids are clones of each other. Y'all come out with similiar stuff and grow up to look the same. Only explanation really.


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    #91
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Davidius wrote: »
    Given an integer n > 1, find distinct positive integers x and y with
    1/x + 1/y = 1/n

    I've had a few drinks and I'm not confident that I'm even close...

    But would 1/(n*3/2) + 1/(n*3) = 1/n?
    Multiply both sides by 3n and you get 2 + 1 = 3.
    Likewise 1/(n*6/5) + 1/(n*6) = 1/n since multiplying by n*6 gives 5+1=6
    1/(4*n/3) + 1/(4*n) = 1/n.

    Maybe like Y = N by a constant P; X is Y divided by P - 1?

    This won't give ALL the answer (I think), but it will (assuming I'm not wrong) give an infinite number of them.


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