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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    Uh~~~before me dino could finish reading that meme with the upside-down airplane~~I was already thinking about a dead cockroach.
    But, yeah, I've had pets that would trustingly show me their upturned bellies.
    Don't want another pet. They can big time let you down by dying.
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    • Posted by $ Suzanne43 1 month, 3 weeks ago
      Dino, I know what you mean by not wanting another pet. It hurts so much when they die. We had our cat for fifteen years before she died. She was a member of the family. But we enjoyed her for all the time that she was with us. I had a dog as a kid. I think of him often.
      Hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    Yep, gave Flintstones to the kids! I've successfully completed the "balance the ice tray" maneuver a bazillion times, but a few times the floor (or my socks) got rinsed. Love the Sponge Bob analogy, LOL!

    Thanks for another great start to my day.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 1 month, 3 weeks ago
      For those flummoxxed by higher mathematics, it's important to remember that a bazillion (along with its friend the squillion) is an imaginary number. Sort of like π, a round number. Don't tell me π are square! But as we all once learned, e to the iπ minus one equals zero, unless the oiler is broken.
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        • Posted by $ Snezzy 1 month, 3 weeks ago
          Oops. I got singed by the sign (not the sine). It's actually e to the iπ PLUS one equals zero,
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          • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
            e^(pii) = cos(pii) +sin(pi*i) = -1 + 0 = -1
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            • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
              Sorry, Firefox mangled the syntax. Once again,
              e^(pii) = cos(pii) +sin(pi*i) = -1 + 0 = -1
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              • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                Any idea why (pi*i) changes to (pii) ?
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                • Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                  I wish I could help, but I'm still flummoxed at what keyboard trick Snezzy used to get the symbol for pi to show up in the text. I'm sure it's a PEBKAC. (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
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                  • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                    My post was wrong anyway. It should have been:

                    e^(π i) = cos(π) + i sin(π ) = -1 + 0 =-1
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                    • Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                      My current math skills are corroded with age and disuse so I never would have caught it, but I appreciate you getting back to the Gulch.

                      Interestingly, a few days ago I acquired a used two-volume set of Math books totaling over 2400 pages long and covers from simple math all the way to calculus. My hope was to brush through it over the next year or so and sharpen my knowledge a bit just for the fun of it. The highest I ever went in formal math education was to ace a precalc college course around 1982 (electronics courses got me into Maxwell and a bit more, but I can't recall most of it now). I'm now 72 and am still interested enough to give it a go. So, here in the Gulch, Snezzy and you are giving me the spark to get on with it.
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                      • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                        I will be 85 soon and have forgotten most of the math to the masters level. I have had heavy duty social anxiety all my life so couldn't practice math or my chemistry degree stuff. Went into lawn care business with 4 months off in winter to use math as a hobby. I like this:

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTfC...

                        Never did that stuff in algebra class in 1961.

                        As for books, no one wants my library of 1500 books with several hundred math and lots of physics and computer books. Young people are not interested due to getting everything online.
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                        • Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                          I started to watch the video (nice), but breakfast is calling so I'll finish it later. Don't know why someone would down vote your post, but I bumped it back up.

                          I had to drop college for family/financial reasons and never went back. I was running a 4.0 in Digital Electronics and the institution gave me a "Field of Study" diploma with distinction, but I never completed the degree. I, too, have accumulated a good sized library that will likely be recycled or land filled upon my leaving the planet.
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                          • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                            I wanted electrical engineering but it had a speech course so went for chemistry course but had senior seminar which worried me for 4 years. I had a panic attack before my presentation of use of LASERs in chemistry. Social anxiety isn't easy to live with though nice not dealing with others and being alone during COVID19 lock down.
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                          • Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                            OK, I finally watched the whole video and had to back it up and pause in a few spots, but got lost towards the end anyway. I've never been introduced to the Lambert W function (at least I don't recall it). It's a proof I have a lot of work to do if I want to go "there", LOL. If a numerical solution was required, I figure with a scientific calculator I could have brute forced a very close answer in far less time than it took the professor to explain it.
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                            • Posted by lrshultis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                              Sorry I should not have given that one. The w function is something I had not encountered before.
                              Look on youtube there are dozens of other ones, some hard but fun if you like puzzling things.

                              That's odd, no one down voted that time.
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    • Posted by $ 1 month, 3 weeks ago
      I'd sooner stay a night at a Holiday inn express . . .
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        • Posted by $ 1 month, 3 weeks ago
          LMAO . . . maybe a stretch (I do realize it was a ditz on the person) but if one can think someone could develop some specialty by watching sponge bob square pants and others can just stay a night at a holiday inn express, I'd sooner the latter.
          (remember the commercials where someone saved a person from death and is asked if he was a doctor? and he replies, no, but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night)
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