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super_elmo

Math, and other games

Nov 09, 2009 21:17

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clonedkitty November 10 2009, 03:41:50 UTC

I was with you until you said 1 modulo 4. I have never heard that language before in all my math days.

super_elmo November 10 2009, 04:03:07 UTC

That means it's a multiple of 4, plus 1.

clonedkitty November 10 2009, 04:26:22 UTC

hmm...well that certainly is interesting, isn't it? And while I don't have any idea of my own (other than toying with dots and noticing that you can make geographical squares using the number of dots for any squared number, and hey, squares have 4 sides, right....), I notice that our good friends on wikipedia have written down some proofs if you can make sense of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_Fermat%27s_theorem_on_sums_of_two_squares

Unless that's cheating or something.

super_elmo November 10 2009, 05:01:36 UTC

That's great, actually. Thanks for the pointing.

eiur November 10 2009, 14:36:54 UTC

Did I ever mention that I took "Calculus for Business Students" in college? It was great, far easier than my calculus in high school and...yesh, I never went beyond that.

*confused*

I did love statistics, though, so much more than regular math. :)

super_elmo November 10 2009, 15:46:42 UTC

Oh man I love statistics. Mmm.

jendontlikeyou November 10 2009, 19:39:04 UTC

I stopped doing Maths after GCSE.

I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

It all sounds incredibly clever though.