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Total nut job that one. Something was definitely wrong with him, the shear effort he put into just making up random equations and claims, getting banned and then making new accounts with the same nonsense was baffling. He was on PhysForums and a few other places too. A friend from OcUK and I...

No, though she and I used to go clubbing a lot with the same group of friends in Swansea and a bunch of other places. As far as I'm aware (10+ year old info) she's still with that guy she met on this forum? Can't remember his names, I'd stopped coming here long before that. We fell out of touch...

I would imagine it was disagreeing with Spie's views on a few things and being somewhat forthright. Doesn't matter, don't care. I'm surprised this account is now unbanned TBH - I only looked it up as I'm over a fellow OcUKer's house and this forum came up. I was a mod over on SciForums for the...

You talk of finite expansion numbers, we talk of infinite expansions. Two completely different things. I've used Word loads of time to do maths equations, and its terribly slow, because each equation is usually different and you have to select, click, drop down menu, symbol etc and it takes you...

I had the dubious honour of being the only person in the CMS (maths centre) this afternoon at around 3.45pm, trying to do as much Electrodynamics as possible since it was due in tomorrow. I get home, check my email and its been postponed a week :eek: :rolleyes: Didn't have to worry! Still, I...

Thats the great thing about Latex, it generates all the nice formating, contents and titles by itself. Once you know the coding, you can type in the equations very quickly and not have to mess around with all the alignment and sizes as you would with Word, its all done by the program :)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17312241&perpage=30&pagenumber=37 His 18.27 post. /edit Too slow. To save me typing up all this stuff next time this comes around I knocked up this : http://premium.uploadit.org/AlphaNumeric/Recurring.pdf Sad, but I was bored...

While accurate to probably parts per million or even billion, that is not exactly 1/3. If you were able to count in individual atoms, then it would be (provided you has a multiple of 3 atoms), but even a computer made circle is not a circle in the mathematical sense, though you'd need a...

Thats what I offered about 2 dozen pages ago to AcidHell2 when he said I was wrong, and its obviously not equal, but then he said even God himself wouldn't convince him, so I doubt a Cambridge professor would... There is always the option of posting on NRich (Haly linked to it a while back)...

Or rather we've spent so much time thinking about (and in) maths that we know that "common sense" has sweet FA to do with maths at times. Both of those are to do with physics, time, space and light. Where does " I define 1/3 to be the solution to 3x-1=0" matter about time, space and light...

Of course such numbers are unevaluatable (is that a word?), thats part of their nature, being unrepeating infinite expansions, they contain an infinite amount of "information", which is not physically possible to exist. Lee's comment was that they are undefinable, a very different thing indeed...

Cannot be exactly evaluated, but can easily be defined. "I define 0.9r to be : Sum over i from 1 to infinity of 0.9x(0.1)^i" There, I've defined it. No problem with that "hurdle" in your argument. A countably infinite number, of which there is a 1-1 correspondence with the Natural...

Nothing other than a GCSE and some A Level certificates (though if you asked me where I put them, I think I might have lost them :o), but I'm a year off a BA in Maths ;) My lecturers, and they agree with me. (or rather I do with them) Of course its definable. What makes an infinite sequence...

Isn't that pretty much a given within any axiomatic system? (at Growse) Actually, scratch that, I'm sure I just sweeped over probably enough logical reasoning to choke a large animal of somekind. I'd expect such a statement to be true, though couldn't prove it (somewhat ironic isn't it :p)...

A lot of Godels work is very mind bending, and IIRC he spent the vast majority of his time on such things as paradoxes. His idea was more about the general flaws in pretty much communication and description, be it English, French or Maths. "I am lying" is a paradox of language and logic...

In the early derivation of The Field of Reals (ie the real number line) its built into the "system" that you cannot divide by zero, even if that zero is "cleverly" disguised as (a-b) or (x-y) or even x. You can divide it by something really small, "dx", but you cannot divide by zero. And...

Its relative. They are hard if you've programmed yourself to repeat answers parrot fashion as you require to pass A Level. The concepts in STEP are not advanced, but instead disguise what you need to do rather than spell it out for you as A Level does. Saying they are "not very diffucult" is a...

1st year it was 4 a term for 2 terms. 2nd year it was a total of 12 topics (though some were only 16 lectures, not the "usual" 24), and this year it'll be 10 topics, totalling about 210 1 hour lectures. As I said, the emphasis is put on personal work, not lecturing. The lecturer gives guides...

Wow, thats a lot. I do about 13 hours a week, 24 weeks a year (of which only 16 weeks actually have lectures), 3 years, comes out as 624 hours of lectures in my degree. Lectures are not compulsory, and even if you do go, its expected you do 3 times (at least) as much hours of work in your own...

A Level stuff, and pretty much the basic language of every single bit of Applied Maths ever. Derivatives describe smoothly changing systems, as you find in physics. The amount of maths you can do just to investigate the properties of Diffrential Equations could keep you busy (and for some...