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Happy Pi Day! A Celebration of Painful High School Math

#1 vecoriwen

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 11:36 PM

Happy Pi Day Everyone!

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 11:59 PM

In 2 1/2 hours! w00t! I <3 Pi Day! Unfortunately I will not be sporting a Pi shirt, because of my brokenness.. however - you can count on it next year!

(Unless someone wants to get me one for my birthday?)

It's also Einstein's birthday. He was a pretty cool dude.

And yeah -- Geometry was painful.. effing triangles! I could do it now! I help my sister with it all the time, but back then? Nooo! I think it's because that's where me and Veccy met. We terrorized boys, made fun of the teacher, and put off homework as long as possible. Good times.

Soh-Cah-Toa anyone?

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 12:43 AM

I used to have a shirt that read "Got milk, need <pi symbol>." People thought it was a symbol that represented pot. It's hard to explain mathematical concepts to idiots.

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 12:52 PM

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 02:22 PM

Gah I ######ing hate geometry. Effing triangles is right, and transversals, kites, rhombuses, and all the others too!

Still I do love me some pi.

I guess so.

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 03:35 PM

Geometry kicks algebra's butt.

Period.

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 03:40 PM

Meh.. throw me Algebra any day. I quite enjoy it.

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 04:02 PM

I prefer Stats.

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 06:32 PM

Just to tick off the geometry teacher, I found a way to not use graphing paper and still get the right answers using algebra entirely. I think that was in December. I haven't used a single scrap of graphing paper since then. Hehehe...

Gets boring after a while, though. Sometimes I wonder when he'll realize that a kid who dreams up entirely new number systems deserves to be in a class higher up, perhaps Algebra 2?

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 07:37 PM

Hm, JacaByte? Explain.

Have I reached the stupid quota?

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 07:40 PM

JacaByte, on Mar 14 2008, 05:17 PM, said:

A while back, I dreamt up a system of mathematics that used three dimensional polygons to represent huge, enormous numbers. The level of complexity required to do that was staggering, how my brain could even grasp it in my sleep is beyond me.

Sorry about that, I was a little vague...

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 09:32 PM

Pufer, on Mar 14 2008, 05:02 PM, said:

I prefer Stats.

Yeah, probability/statistics is by far the most enjoyable math course I've taken. Statistics is a field I've considered entering.

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 09:50 PM

Perhaps I would have enjoyed Stats if I had had a less miserable teacher. Sorry fellas.

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 07:57 AM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 14 2008, 03:40 PM, said:

Meh.. throw me Algebra any day. I quite enjoy it.

Pufer, on Mar 14 2008, 04:02 PM, said:

I prefer Stats.

-Pufer

I prefer Calc.

As for Pi Day, I memorized 25 digits of Pi. I think I knew more last year, but I'm happy enough with 25.

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 01:08 PM

It was also my Board Birthday. I'm quite proud of it.

You know.. Stats isn't bad. I'm taking Stats for Psychology, and if it weren't for an insufferably daft and dull teacher, it'd be somewhat interesting.

Whatever happens..happens.

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 04:17 PM

Happy Birthday!

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 04:49 PM

Hehe.. Thanks

On a completely unrelated note... some of my fingers are yellow.

Yeah - Nitric acid does that.

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 05:33 PM

Hey, want some...nitrous oxide!?

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 05:36 PM

When I got my wisdom teeth taken out they gave me laughing gas before they put me under.

I actually laughed.

I guess its not supposed to do that...but they had to strap down my arms so that in my flailing laughter I didn't rip out my IV.

Damn that was good stuff. I want surgery again just to have it...mmmm...tastes like bubble gum.

-Veccy...loving the laughing gas.

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 05:37 PM

vecoriwen, on Mar 15 2008, 06:36 PM, said:

They lie. It's actually weed.

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 07:00 PM

They gave me NOX when they put me under to have an infected premolar taken out. I hate that stuff. I won't ever touch it, or breath it, again.

Just two completely different points of view...

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Posted 15 March 2008 - 08:21 PM

A couple friends of mine live in the same apartment complex as a nos addict. Whenever he picks up a new tank, he runs home, fires it up, and then starts removing his clothes (evidently the more you use the hotter you feel). He usually passes out completely naked on his couch. How do I know? In his hurry to fire it up, he rarely remembers to shut his front door behind him. My friends usually raid his place for laundry detergent while he's passed out.

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Posted 16 March 2008 - 02:19 PM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 15 2008, 04:49 PM, said:

Hehe.. Thanks

On a completely unrelated note... some of my fingers are yellow.

Yeah - Nitric acid does that.

Ha... I also had some yellow spots on my hands because we were working with Nitric Acid in the lab last week. I much prefer Silver Nitrate, which significantly darkens your skin.

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#24 moonunit4eva

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Posted 16 March 2008 - 05:02 PM

I think we were doing the same lab DE! Were you working with metathesis reactions?

Also - Pufer - I think I may have a story to rival yours this time. But you'll just have to wait till I can have someone properly narrate to me.

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