23 Jun
2004
23 Jun
'04
11:22 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 22:24, Antonio Carlini wrote:
Heh, true. I remember our exams were always about the last of all the
degree courses in the year, so we'd be queued up outside the exam halls
whilst there were loads of people around us out enjoying the summer.
Gits.
I seem to
recall for my degree anything requiring databooks would be
done as coursework, not as an exam in an exam hall - which seems the
logical approach.
Nah. Course work was invented for wimps who could not
cope with the fact that the worth of their entire lives
up to that point was going to be measured in three days
or so :-) Absolutely. I'd be lost without addition and
multiplication.
Subtraction is pretty useful but division just seems to be
an optimisation that I can often get by without :-)
I'm trying to think of the last time I needed any
vector calculus or Cachy-Riemann or even simple
control theory. There's the occasional would-this-
other-algorithm-be-any-better, but not often.
I you mention complex numbers, I'll have to shoot you :-) Seriously, I'm
not a maths person at all - I just can't get my brain around it. I could
cope with the sort of maths I needed for computing work, but any more
than that and I would have been stuck...
Actually, I was going to point out that the
world has been in terminal decline for all
of recorded history, but I'm afraid the
pyramids may crop up again :-)
Maybe if we decline any further the aliens will come along and help us
out ;-)
seeya
Jules