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Tag Archives: Maths
Decathalon
The following is blatantly stolen (and slightly adapted) from Cosmic Variance
The decathlon combines ten different track and field events, so to come up with a final score we need some way to tally up all of the scores. You know what that means: an equation. Let’s imagine that you finish the 100 [...]
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You could be Johnny
I’ve just posted the following to this article about the tendency in the UK to see being bad at Maths (and Science) as a mark of pride.
It really annoys me every time a presenter on the news ‘jokes’ that they can’t do maths or science. Melvyn Bragg on the usually excellent “in our time” is [...]
I will derive
I… I will derive… find the derivative of x, position, with respect to time.
It’s as easy as can be, just find dx/dt…. I will derive!
A maths geek parody to the music of Gloria Gaynor. What’s not to like?
Happy Pi Day!