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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭declan_lgs


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


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

    I cheated with the graph.


  • Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    What is the opposite of leeward?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭Mysteryfish


    Wait. what IS leeward?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Correct. Your question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Irishstabber


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Flashling


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    x^2 + 5x = 3

    What is X?


    Is Fight Club on the JC syllabus these days? *

    * What with it being an 18s movie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭andyman


    0.3??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Nope, not as far as I'm aware.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭cookiemonst3r


    Victor wrote:
    x^2 + 5x = 3

    What is X?

    -9.3 and -0.7 ???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    For the maths thing I got 5.54 and -.541
    I concur.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭carpothepunk


    REVIVE THE THREAD!!!

    science question

    explain the term germination


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭pussycat_doll


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭carpothepunk


    but not for this years JC Class...jeez


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Diarmsquid


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭pussycat_doll


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Diarmsquid


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭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.


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