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MATH question
#23946583 - 12/21/16 04:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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if a 357. magnum bullet was travelling at 1400 feet per second(fps) how many miles per hour(mph) would that equal?

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Come on dude are you fuckin serious?
You can't do that simple conversion?
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954.545 miles Google.
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i think the formula may be above my math level IIRC
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1400 x 3600 / 5280 = 954.545454...
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Damn dude, you didnt even need to convert fuckin units. Go back to school
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Also its .357 not 357.
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Re: MATH question [Re: Faustoid]
#23946708 - 12/21/16 05:16 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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would you all stfu and just help the guy. 
why aren't you all in school for anthropology? or biology? or chemistry or physics? how about you all go and learn all those things you don't know, 'cause like DUHHH you don't know them!
(or do you only do so much for math? the most useless subject in logic, in existence. "hi guys, i need to answer an arbitrary question that any computer can compute, so let's just solve some arbitrary math questions...whoa fun!" applied math = useless. informal logic is literally the only effective use of math for a layman. blowwwww hhharrrrds)
it'll be more useful than math, considering computers can rip a math a teacher a new one, these days...not to mention any mathematician.
don't be such blow-hards.
Edited by akira_akuma (12/21/16 05:23 PM)
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hey look at that!, i agree with you.
Well, with the first and last sentences at least.
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Re: MATH question [Re: Apostle]
#23946787 - 12/21/16 05:40 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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i just thought i'd expand on the point a little bit. expecting everyone to know everything is stupid. expecting someone to know just about anything is a faulty premise, because not anyone can know everything. it's simple.
fuck if i know much math because i quit school....i think the notion is absurd to expect someone to know such a futile concept...it's interesting...it's almost as if math might just be an extremely fun thing to do- from what i can see, most mathematicians would say if you don't enjoy math, then don't be a mathematician. it's a thing of beauty...it's a thing of fun & enjoyment...it's important to be able to apply logic to any situation, as a given, but not every situation that can be put into mathematical equation needs be put into such a manner.
there are different subsets of logic. math is one of the most difficult, and most useless to the layperson.
mathematicians whom are worth their salt probably would agree with me. just sayin'. i don't like that fuckin' attitude like "you don't know that! go back to school!"
and what? waste my fuckin' time?
shit like that really gets my goat.
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I used to kick ass in math class, falling asleep through most days and still acing the tests. the thing is though i was still doing the material and i was just blessed with better retention because of my youth.
now it's a "use it or lost it" type situation with me. i reteach myself algebra every few years, usually in jail, and im always amazed at how its like an alien language each time i come back to it.
im trying to make it a habit of practicing it now so i don't have to go through that cycle and hopefully one day ill make it to the higher Maths. I use KhanAcademey to brush up. did some practice yesterday actually. Math is fun, for real. I actually have more trouble with conversions and decimals than i do with the more "advanced" stuff.
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Yeah but he asked a middle school level math question...like damn, it's 2017 now, he's already on the internet, thus 2 clicks away from learning absolutley anything he wants.
There's no mercy for people over the age of 13 in developed countries who can't figure out how to get with the fucking program.. if this was Sparta we'd have killed the guy a long time ago.
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Re: MATH question [Re: trees]
#23946819 - 12/21/16 05:49 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Also a good point
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Re: MATH question [Re: Apostle]
#23946835 - 12/21/16 05:54 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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i've been reading, periodically, The Mathematical Experience- a book on the philosophy of math, in general. lots of different subjects. i love the concept- being that i am the worst mathematician ever, i still glean quite a bit from even the philosophy of math; maybe not so much from practice, but i try when i can...heck, that last math thread in the pub, i gave it a spin, and was pretty well spot on, i just couldn't explain it (which was half-the fun, obviously).
i suck at rote performances, that's probably my worst quality. but computing new information, that's different. i'm pretty good at it. so there's a...erm...a balance there. at some point the logic of rote mathematics breaks down for me...but certain concepts are infinitely intriguing if you're into it.
it's basically a mix of symbolic computation and fact of coordinating that logic through said symbols that i'm dyslexic (practically) about- it's easy to understand why...i didn't scan that shit by rote until i cemented it into my brain. it's difficult to retain such knowledge because, c'mon, it's nothing but symbols put into a logical formation (equations). it's not easy. why people act like it is, is beyond me- it kinda defeats the notion of how mathematics are so complex. to boil it down to easy answers is besides the point (or rather, not the only point)- so why expect people to be able to just come up with easy solutions to things they haven't pondered before in a language that's unknown to them?
i could easily ask of people to speak for me Ndebele, and just cuss at them when they couldn't, just the same...it's stupid. i've expounded on this long enough....

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trees said: Yeah but he asked a middle school level math question...like damn, it's 2017 now, he's already on the internet, thus 2 clicks away from learning absolutley anything he wants.
There's no mercy for people over the age of 13 in developed countries who can't figure out how to get with the fucking program.. if this was Sparta we'd have killed the guy a long time ago.
get with what program? the fact that he could have Googled it? or the whim of aiming to retain decades old knowledge that only pertains to specific situations you're liable to never come across?
Edited by akira_akuma (12/21/16 05:59 PM)
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Re: MATH question [Re: Apostle]
#23946841 - 12/21/16 05:55 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Apostle said: Also a good point
Yeah, I appreciate you defending someone who was just cursed with poor math skills, but this shit is unacceptable. If you wanted to know how many hog's-heads per millisecond it was, ok, I can appreciate the confusion. But ffs, its not even middle school shit, thats like 5th grade if you weren't a moron
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no it isn't unacceptable. why don't you know physics? it's math. where is your physics skills? explain to me the laws of thermo-dynamics in symbolic computation, you should be able to.
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trees


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Akira trying to cover up for his own lack of math skills. In Sparta we would have sacked you as well
Edited by trees (12/21/16 05:59 PM)
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Re: MATH question [Re: trees]
#23946857 - 12/21/16 06:00 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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lol, i am being open and honest about it. 
what the fuck am i trying to cover up? can you write an academic article that would pass for publication?
unless you can, you should shush.
you guys don't know set theory in logic? boy, retards.
must be some dumb asses to not know a language you've never studied. go back to school and waste your time learning it for the sake of...nothing.
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I finished college a bachelor's in science, which had us write lots of academic articles worthy of publication
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