Read this if you are a mathematician

[: : Scott : :]

Originally Posted by humndislocation

I never did higher maths, so I don't know if I'm bringing it back or not.

I did do a maths module at university, which seemed to require you to know higher maths to be able to understand it.

Somehow, without understanding any of it, I managed to get a 7 on the exam ( the passing grade is 10 ). I have no idea how that happened.

Did you go to abertay? If so, you probably passed because richard paris would CUT YOU FUCKING DOWN if you failed.

[*Lyndsey*]

i like maths

my old maths teacher was an old hunk at school

[humndislocation]

Originally Posted by : : Scott : :

Did you go to abertay? If so, you probably passed because richard paris would CUT YOU FUCKING DOWN if you failed.

I went to Abertay, but I got some guy called Colin for the maths class, at least I think that was his name. He was a nice guy, but I couldn't understand his notes for the life of me.

[paul engage]

ARGHHHHHHHH

that's the L2- norm btw.. more generally defined for complex vectors. L2 is just one particular type of norm.

Even more generally, the double bar sign just denotes a norm (defined on a normed vector space)

[humndislocation]

I had no idea there was a difference between the bar and the double bar. I suck.

It wasn't so much the bars that confused me, as the little two beside them... Especially since there was one on the next page that was squared and also had the little two and made me head explode

[Niall]

Originally Posted by RussellOrGoose

I doubt I'll ever need trigonometry unless i work in a Toblerone factory.

i doubt you'd need it if you worked there.

[Chunder]

Originally Posted by Rebelius

but in the first one a, b and c are all squared so you can't get imaginary numbers.

Yep its true, I officially suck at the mathematics and have no future as a games programmer

[humndislocation]

Originally Posted by Chunder

Yep its true, I officially suck at the mathematics and have no future as a games programmer

Every time I have made a statement like that to a game programmer, they've always said that they hardly ever use maths in their job. True story.

When I mentioned the fact that I don't know calculus, one of them told me I don't really need it, as long as I know my vertex and matrix math.

[humndislocation]

Does anyone know how to find the intersection point of two axis-oriented toblerones?

Anybody?

God that was a nerdy joke, and I am fucking lame for finding the concept of a tolberlone being used as a bounding volume funny. This is a big sign that I need to take a break from programming and go outside methinks.

[: : Scott : :]

Originally Posted by Rebelius

but in the first one a, b and c are all squared so you can't get imaginary numbers.

what if a=ROOT-1

[paul engage]

about the double bar Scott.. yeah it is used to denote the norm of a matrix too- it's a general notation for a norm on a generic normed space. The single bar is usually reserved for the L2 norm of a vector or the complex modulus

[: : Scott : :]

i would like to play my "sorry if i was talking any bollocks it's been a year since i did any paper maths" card

[*Lyndsey*]

at high school...did anyone have a teacher that was a Dr of Maths? I did, Dr Cuthbertson, he was all ooo im a dr of maths kids - RESPECT ME

i didnt like him, his breath smelt bad and he was FAT

ha! respect the halitosis man

[RealR]

I might get a Dr of maths and i can then go on to shout at students as well as school kids. Yey!