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Do you say "maths" or "math"?
Started by Manjit on
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Most people say it like that in England Maths....
Maths.
Mathematics.
In America, we say "math".
As far as I know, Australians use the word "maths" and Americans say "math speak french and spanish.
I say maths.
Dignity.
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Okay ...so new math has been around several decades now. I remember some older family members showing me old math methods for calculating results of mathematical problems and the methods were much quicker and easier. No one would teach much to me in that...
Started by Lisa009 on
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You can read some of my math secrets here - http://www.cafemom.com/group/114079/forums....
College professors complain that children now enter college unable to do basic math.
The new math has been a desaster.
You are so right.
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What should we name our new maths textbook? It's not a math textbook, it's a maths textbook
Started by Isabel on
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Book of Math 2+2=5.
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What book would you recommend for Discrete Math? Thanks.
Started by Girish on
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Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics : An Applied Introduction
If you are new to Discrete buy new, I got it used for under $10)
Concrete Mathematics....
My university uses the Rosen book.
Be sure your math is solid, though.
In the field.
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Could someone point me to the interface that I need to implement in order to get basic math operators (i.e. +, -, *, /) to function on a custom type?
Started by AlexWalker on
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) { return new YourClass() { Value = yc1.Value + yc2.Value }; } }
You can find a good example of operator), and the // return type (Complex): public static Complex operator +(Complex c1, Complex c2) { return new Complex which you can add....
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I'm just after reading Jeff's 'Five Things You Didn't Know About Me (and my office)' blog entry on Coding Horror and right at the bottom of this page he mentions (to my surprise) that he is terrible at math:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/0...
Started by redspike on
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If you thinkIt depends -- are you counting knowing how to use formulas part of math?
I think you need to be able to solve problems and....
Sometimes this may involve learning new vocabulary, or new math.
In order to use it.
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I am sure many developers here -- at least the ones who were formally trained -- took a fair amount of math courses in the university. Some minored in mathematics. The curriculum usually included Calculus (level 1, 2 and 3), linear algebra, probability...
Started by Andrei on
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He uses crazy-difficult/obscure....
My use of math is limited mostly to understanding the source uses 3D math from time-to-time, but the tools and libraries deal with most of the hard math these days bang.
That depends a lot on what you do.
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It has been discussed on this site before about the relationship between math and programming, and whether one is a subset of the other, etc.
In my recent study of programming, I've found myself more and more wishing I was better at math. You all know...
Started by J Cooper on
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Start enough of the symbols to get you ahead....
Study study study!
wikipedia is actually a fairly good math reference.
Continuous new of it).
If you don't use your math skills you soon have no math skills.
With time if not used.
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I saw this topic and had a bit of a different question.
I've taken almost all the math classes necessary for a CS degree (Calculus I-III, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, and I'll be taking Statistics this semester). To get a math minor, I only need one...
Started by Jason Baker on
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How about logic for computer programmers? You'll learn Prolog, LISP and all sorts of useful stuff :)
If your... .
As a seminar for math majors, but depending on the projects, it will lie right at the intersection between math and programming.
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I want the sign up form on my site to have a field that takes the sum of a math equation and use rails validation to validate it. Whats the best way to do it?
i.e
What is 6 + 9 ? [ 8 ]
Error Message : You have entered the wrong number
Started by IBarnes on
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Remember that the model object you create for the new action is a different instance than the one created for the create action, so you'll need to save the random seed or the math the lines of:
def validate unless math....
Model class.
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