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 The Bloody History of the Square Root of Two
Posted: January 31, 2009 06:35 pmTop
   
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The next time you're bored in math class, remember this. Today we tend to compartmentalize our lives, including differentiating between philosophy and mathematics. The Greeks weren't so picky, and therefore their digressions on mathematics tended to be a bit more high-strung than what we'd recognize today. Subsequently, when an unfortunate soul in 500 B.C. discovered the existence of irrational numbers by computing the square root of two, his study group murdered him instantly lest the heresy of non-repeating, indefinitely continuing numbers rise to challenge the integers with their lack of infinite decimals.

Now who said math isn't fun? wub.gif
 
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Posted: January 31, 2009 06:54 pmTop
   


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it might be easy but i wouldn't call it fun...
 
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Posted: January 31, 2009 06:57 pmTop
   
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It'd be more fun if we could kill each other during class I think.
 
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Posted: February 1, 2009 10:29 amTop
   
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Wow?
He got murdered LOL

Lol, sometimes in Maths (Even though I love Maths, I'm planning to take it at Uni) I'm like "Who invented this shit!?!?!?! They should really die"

But yeah, Maths is so fun, but I guess @ Uni, it gets into a bit of Physics, which I don't really like.

Ah well, I like Complex Numbers & such.

~Abs
 
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Posted: February 1, 2009 05:36 pmTop
   
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Never really liked physics; I'm working on a math minor in college, I think I'm going to take something towards number theory for my elective.
 
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Posted: February 1, 2009 06:18 pmTop
   
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I remember that from World History biggrin.gif. It was somewhat funny tbh.
 
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