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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
10:06:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
This is a geek:
The world's fastest human calculator on Tuesday broke his own record for working out a 200-digit number using nothing but brain power to produce the answer in just over 70 seconds.
Alexis Lemaire, a 27-year-old Frenchman, correctly calculated the 13th root of a random 200-digit number from a possible 393 trillion answers.
The so-called 'mathlete' produced the answer of 2,407,899,893,032,210 in 70.2 seconds, beating his previous record of 72.4 seconds, at London's Science Museum.
For all my "geek cred," I can't do math to save my life. I topped out at the quadratic equation and it's really been downhill from there, mathwise. Fortunately I had them there word thingies to fall back on. It's nice to have a plan B.
How do you do in math?
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10:06:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
You Think You're a Geek? Not Even Close, My Friend
This is a geek:
The world's fastest human calculator on Tuesday broke his own record for working out a 200-digit number using nothing but brain power to produce the answer in just over 70 seconds.
Alexis Lemaire, a 27-year-old Frenchman, correctly calculated the 13th root of a random 200-digit number from a possible 393 trillion answers.
The so-called 'mathlete' produced the answer of 2,407,899,893,032,210 in 70.2 seconds, beating his previous record of 72.4 seconds, at London's Science Museum.
For all my "geek cred," I can't do math to save my life. I topped out at the quadratic equation and it's really been downhill from there, mathwise. Fortunately I had them there word thingies to fall back on. It's nice to have a plan B.
How do you do in math?
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Pi got me. Math was always a concrete thing before that. But then suddenly we're measuring circles with this number. No reason WHY we're using this number (at least none they'll explain to a 3rd grader no matter how many times they ask), it's just the right one. TRUST US.
That was it for me. I played along for awhile longer but then Algebra came along in high school and I was, like, LETTERS? Forget it. I'm late for History class. -
I love Math! I recently declared a Mathematics minor to go with my Sociology Major. I will be taking Calculus B next semester.
That said, I'm not sure what a quadratic equation is either. *
My excuse: I took math in high school and one class my first time in college. Fast forward 20 years, I started taking math classes and did pretty well. And then I remembered how much I love Math. Ahh, Math.
*okay, I just looked it up on the internet (love the internet for that) yeah, it looks familiar. Will need to brush up for the calculus, will definitely be using that algebra stuff. Ugh. -
I kind of fell apart at Intermediate Algebra. So I became an accountant. Scary, huh?
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My three oldest kids are taking college math in high school and jr high, as they are in honors classes..............
I have to hire a tutor to help them..........
Its expensive being a math-challenged Dad........... he he he
12/15/07 6:09 PM
Carol