Suggestion to anyone in college

IAmMe · Post by **IAmMe** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:08 am

Talking of interesting Lego projects, you might be interested in these:

http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... ivity.html
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... nding.html

MC Escher in Lego

IAmMe UK

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:47 am

Nyamaza wrote:Well, I didn't evern try to sell back any of my comp sci books. Every one of those has SOMETHING that it covers better then any of the others, that helps me to remember different things better then the other.

First rule of a CS major... never sell your CS book.

And to answer the second question running through this thread, while I didn't ever study further in text books (terribly boring things, most of the time), by the time I was 7 I had the entire Cosmos series memorized, had a couple PBS tv shows I watched avidly (Square One and The Secret City (art show that helped to teach perspective and 3D art, won me two different art awards)), and typically was given more difficult problems by my math teachers then the rest of the class (my good teachers at least).

I loved Square One! (The pieces that stick out the most in my mind are Mathman [with the evil Mr. Glitch!] and Mathnet. It was years before I figured out the pun behind the names of Kate Monday and Pat Tuesday [Sergeant Joe Friday, anyone?] or the probable reason behind the actor switch [one of {illness, death, or other life-altering event} or {contract negotiation failure}.]. But I loved mysteries solvable by math...and math-based video games.)

Nyamaza wrote:To this day I've never done an addition or subtraction word problem. That day in class the teacher went ahead and gave me multiplication and division ones.

And to try to win the title of uptimate childhood geekiness... during summer vacations I would do long division, by hand, for fun!

I thought I was the only one who ever did that!!!!!

Nyamaza · Post by **Nyamaza** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:24 am

DetailBear wrote:I'm not sure if this is playing in the US.
http://www.swaystudio.com/honda_movie.html

In the geekiness contest, I used to read dictionaries for fun.

I ALMOST got there. I started on my family's encyclopedia, but got distracted and went back to gaming halfway through the A volume.

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 10:44 am

Erm...umm...

I once made a Recognizer out of Legos! The legs even came off the main body to attach to the center for "pile-driver" mode! And one of the legs could come apart in the middle, to become the Blue Recognizer!

The_Fox · Post by **The_Fox** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 3:09 pm

Recognizer...something in the back of my mind has an image of the big flyin robot thing from Tron...is that it, Alfy?

The Fox - Must destroy MCP...

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:50 am

The_Fox wrote:Recognizer...something in the back of my mind has an image of the big flyin robot thing from Tron...is that it, Alfy?

The Fox - Must destroy MCP...

Yay!!! Got it in one!!!

Kesh · Post by **Kesh** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:10 pm

I want Mathnet on DVD.

[parrot]
"One-one-two-three! Fib-bo-nacci!"
[/parrot]

8)

Nyamaza · Post by **Nyamaza** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:41 pm

0_0

That was my FAVORITE!!!

I love the tile puzzle at the end!

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:46 am

Nyamaza wrote:0_0

That was my FAVORITE!!!

I love the tile puzzle at the end!

YOURS TOO?!?!?!

"1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 5, 2, 2, 4, 1...but there are TWO!!!"

Randyg · Post by **Randyg** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:23 pm

Alfador wrote:YOURS TOO?!?!?!

"1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 5, 2, 2, 4, 1...but there are TWO!!!"

hmm, can't say I know where that's from, but I'm guessing the sequence is x(n) = ((fib(n) - 1) % 5) + 1?

--Randy

Nyamaza · Post by **Nyamaza** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 8:08 pm

nope nope.

F(0) = 1
F(1) = 1
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)

in the case of that puzzle
f(n) = F(n)%5

Randyg · Post by **Randyg** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:30 pm

Nyamaza wrote:nope nope.

F(0) = 1
F(1) = 1
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)

in the case of that puzzle
f(n) = F(n)%5

if that were the formula, you'd have 0's in the result. there are no 0's. ((F(n)-1)%5)+1 seems to give much nicer results...

--Randy

WolfFur · Post by **WolfFur** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:53 pm

I really like pizza.

Randyg · Post by **Randyg** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:15 pm

WolfFur wrote:I really like pizza.

so, let's say you put 1 slice of pepperoni on the first slice of the pizza. You then put another 1 slice of pepperoni on the second slice of the pizza. You then decide each slice of pizza should have a number of slices of pepperoni on it equal to the sum of the number of slices of pepperoni on the previous two slices of pizza. So the first slice has 1 on it. the second also 1. the third 2. the fourth 3. the fifth 5. the sixth... unfortunatly, you can't fit 8 slices of pepperoni on a slice of pizza, so you decide every time you have more than 5 slices to put on, you'll put on 5 less. so you put 3 pieces on the sixth slice. you then go to put 8 on, but again 8 doesn't fit, so you subtract 5, and put 3 on again. you then go to put on 6, but 6 again doesn't fit, so you subtract 5 and put on 1. you then put on 4 slices. then 5 slices. and so on, until you run out of pizza and/or pepperoni.

--Randy

Nyamaza · Post by **Nyamaza** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:45 am

I learned to use a slide rule, because I thought it was fun.

The_Fox · Post by **The_Fox** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:55 am

randyg wrote:
WolfFur wrote:I really like pizza.
so, let's say you put 1 slice of pepperoni on the first slice of the pizza. You then put another 1 slice of pepperoni on the second slice of the pizza. You then decide each slice of pizza should have a number of slices of pepperoni on it equal to the sum of the number of slices of pepperoni on the previous two slices of pizza. So the first slice has 1 on it. the second also 1. the third 2. the fourth 3. the fifth 5. the sixth... unfortunatly, you can't fit 8 slices of pepperoni on a slice of pizza, so you decide every time you have more than 5 slices to put on, you'll put on 5 less. so you put 3 pieces on the sixth slice. you then go to put 8 on, but again 8 doesn't fit, so you subtract 5, and put 3 on again. you then go to put on 6, but 6 again doesn't fit, so you subtract 5 and put on 1. you then put on 4 slices. then 5 slices. and so on, until you run out of pizza and/or pepperoni.

--Randy

Whoa....I so totally understand that now. Makes me wish I'd seen this as a kid, coulda given me a better grounding in mathematics than I currently have.

The Fox - I spent most of childhood in front of Mario Bros...on the other hand, at least I have very good hand eye coordination.

Nyamaza · Post by **Nyamaza** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:38 am

Heh, that's why my family had the TV and the video games on seperate, but adjacent TVs... we could game AND watch TV at the same time. usually while eating dinner too.

R. Wyatt · Post by **R. Wyatt** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:28 am

I think Pythagora's Pizza Palace may be able to make that for you.

I spent most of yesterday giving an eleven year old tuition for his maths test today (he'd be fine, if he could only sit still for ten seconds), and when I got to work at 6am this morning, I was immediatly grabbed by a supervisor, who needed help with her maths retakes, so please forgive me if I don't take a hugh interest in this topic...

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:31 am

Well, today I'm heading over to Port Orchard to tutor two highschoolers who live across the street from my parents, because they got D's in math last semester.

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