Math(s)

[Blue Harvest]

I hated maths and had the worst teacher ever, yet somehow I still got a B at GCSE. That led me to take it at A-Level, only to drop it after a week after remembering how much I hated it.

[Vivisteiner]

^At my school they only let us take A level maths if we got an A or A* for GCSE.

English people are jealous because they cant model the laws that govern the whole Universe on one page, but mathematical people can.

Actually, us math guys can't do it either; there's too many of them. Not unless you stripped down explanations and didn't show work, but if you can't show your work, you might as well be wrong. English majors can use their skills in writing to at least attempt a theory on the workings of the world, which can incorporate math if they choose, and since they are good writers, they can be both concise and appreciable. Well, technically, they'd need two or more pages. Either way, it's like arguing whether ends-means users are superior to those who can craft the theory behind it. You need both.

Im only going by what Michio Kaku said in his book 'Physics of the Impossible.'

He said that all the equations necessary to explain the Universe could be fitted onto one page. Of course, to prove those equations are true would require many more pages, but the equations themselves occupy very little space.

How big a sheet are you talking here, buddy?

Because all I do most of my life is study those laws(and what to actually do with them, which mathmatisians can't) and I gotta tell ya, that's gotta be one hell of a sheet.

I assume he was referring to an A4 sheet.

Michio Kaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the guy, in case you dont know.

[Zeldy]

Well I had my Non-calc GCSE today, and it wasn't too bad, though of course, I could only attempt the final 3 or 4 questions, as all the A* techniques just go over my head. The beginning of the paper I could do though! I have my Maths calc in June.

In my school and all the colleges I have applied to, you needed a B to do Maths for A Level, and you needed As to do further Maths.

Anyway, MATHS SUCKS.

[Captain Maxx Power]

For the maths geeks.

[Aerith's Knight]

For the maths geeks.

Ghehe, funny

[Zeldy]

Is it because the square root of -1 would be nothing? I don't know xD

[Sergeant Hartman]

Such a thing does not exist!

[Jess]

I smurfing hated maths at school. I could do it on most the part, but I hated it, it bored me half to death and every single maths teacher I had at school was useless - so I taught myself most things out of a book. I got a B in my GCSE. I'm okay, but when it comes to anything to do with shapes and fractions I fail miserably. I used to find algebra the easiest, but having not done any for the past two years I probably couldn't do it now.

The college I originally applied for asked me to do Maths or Statistics instead of my choice of Law - so I didn't go to that college. I couldn't have done another two years of it. I much preferred the English subjects at school, Art and ICT. I didn't get to do Psychology until college as my school didn't offer it as a GCSE at the time (they started to the year after! ), but that's my favourite now.

[Zeldy]

Such a thing does not exist!

Yeah but wouldn't you be able to see it if it was left in Surd form?

[Sergeant Hartman]

If you came out with a surd like that, then you must have done something wrong.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Is it because the square root of -1 would be nothing? I don't know xD

[boringmode]An imaginary number, denote as i, is a value that when squared becomes -1, and is the value -1 becomes when it itself is rooted. Because such a number doesn't exist within the realms of real numbers it's necessary to create it, thus the use of i as a standard value for this figure. It's primarily used in complex numbers, which are algebraic equations that can be used for a number of things, the least of which includes defining the values for a vector.[/boringmode]

[Zeldy]

Is it because the square root of -1 would be nothing? I don't know xD

[boringmode]An imaginary number, denote as i, is a value that when squared becomes -1, and is the value -1 becomes when it itself is rooted. Because such a number doesn't exist within the realms of real numbers it's necessary to create it, thus the use of i as a standard value for this figure. It's primarily used in complex numbers, which are algebraic equations that can be used for a number of things, the least of which includes defining the values for a vector.[/boringmode]

Really, just ignore me. I'm just trying to annoy you by picking faults xD

[Vivisteiner]

Imaginary numbers are cool. They dont exist yet they can solve many problems. Without them you wouldnt even exist.

Ok, maybe they're not that important. But you get the picture.