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declan_lgs

IIRC the history book says it was invented by Portugese ship designers at Sagres...
Close enough.

Victor

I can't remember how to solve these when the answers are non-round.

I cheated with the graph.

Victor

Victor wrote:

I can't remember how to solve these when the answers are non-round.

I cheated with the graph.

x= [-b +/- (b^2 - 4ac)^1/2]/2a

Victor

What is the opposite of leeward?

Mysteryfish

Wait. what IS leeward?

PurpleFistMixer

Isn't leeward a geographical term referring to the side of a mountain that's sheltered from the rain/wind? And then the other side is windward? Or did I make that up...

Victor

Correct. Your question.

PurpleFistMixer

Yay, I win.

Question: (*begins frantically trying to remember JC course*)
When...... and WHERE... was Christopher Columbus born?
Or the explorer of your choice.

Piste

15 something or other and Portugal.


In fight club *looks pointedly at PFM* What is the first organ of Jack's that is mentioned in the article?

PurpleFistMixer

Do you mean the Joe's organs series that the narrator finds in the Reader's Digest?

I admit I had to look it up in the book. It's been a while. I feel bad.

Anyway, so the first one we find is actually Jane's uterus. The next one is Joe's prostate, but that's a gland, so I'm not sure if that would count. I don't like biology.

So... I'd have to go with Joe's Gallbladder, which is mentioned in like the next line.

Re the film, I actually cannot remember. I think it might be the pancreas, possibly, but yeah, can't remember.

Mmm, fight club.

New question: what does the word 'sobriquet' mean?

Piste

WRONG! It was ''I am Jack's Medula Oblongada'' for shame, foolish child *slap*

Irishstabber

Sorry have to correct the Columbus q....1451 and Venice, Italy.

PurpleFistMixer

Piste wrote:

WRONG! It was ''I am Jack's Medula Oblongada'' for shame, foolish child *slap*

You LIE! LIE! Where does it say that?

Piste

'Tis in the movie. Sorry, I was talking about movie, not book. Have to read the book sometime....

PurpleFistMixer

I gotta see the film sometime. For the seventh time.

Flashling

Sobriquet is an epithet.
I didn't know that before I looked it up, so if someone else wants to post a question...

Victor

x^2 + 5x = 3

What is X?

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Is Fight Club on the JC syllabus these days? *

* What with it being an 18s movie.

andyman

0.3??

PurpleFistMixer

If someone wanted to answer on Fight Club they would be perfectly and utterly allowed to it, as far as I am aware. Books don't have any rating.

I was tempted, but we'd already studied To Kill a Mockingbird so there was little point.

For the maths thing I got 5.54 and -.541, but it was with the computer calculator which I'm unfamiliar with. Meh.

philologos

isnt there not a list like in the LC for texts?

PurpleFistMixer

Nope, not as far as I'm aware.

I mean, we did some pretty obscure poems...

cookiemonst3r

Victor wrote:

x^2 + 5x = 3

What is X?

-9.3 and -0.7 ???

Victor

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

For the maths thing I got 5.54 and -.541

I concur.

carpothepunk

REVIVE THE THREAD!!!

science question

explain the term germination

pussycat_doll

omg d exams r ova! lets stop wit dis! lol

carpothepunk

but not for this years JC Class...jeez

Diarmsquid

pussycat_doll wrote:

omg d exams r ova! lets stop wit dis! lol

LMAO! You're so funny!

Germination is when seeds begin to sprout roots and grow?

English: (pussycat, this one's for you)

omg d exams r ova! lets stop wit dis! lol

Translate.

pussycat_doll

yeh ur so funny. well dun 4 thinkin up sumtin so clever. lol just jokin!

Diarmsquid

Ok then, since you're not answering, question open to anyone..
/me awaits witty replies.

pussycat_doll

look, evry1 understnds wat im sayin, dey just dnt all pretend 2 be 'above dat'. cuz if u dnt understnd it den ur clearly stupid.