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[The Star King]

Nice tease. You're like those people on Facebook that post cryptic statuses like "in the hospital", "FML", "having the worst day ever" without any explanation so that a bunch of people reply with "OMG are u OK?????" and "What happeneddd???"

Cool overreaction bro. What his near-death experience actually was is irrelevant to this discussion, so there's no need to go into it.

That really doesn't work. Like, I could say that I hate it when falcons grab too much and then ***** at the first person who eh'd at me and call them predictable, but it doesn't work like that.

Not sure why I didn't understand what you were saying the first time I read this. Anyways, I'm sure you would agree with me that the response was predictable, right? I wouldn't point it out/think it was funny if it was just once in a while, but you're the one who ALWAYS posts what I expect someone to say.

 

[Battlecow]

BTW ballin', can a straight integer be a polynomial? I thought polynomials had to have variables in them somewhere (and x^0 doesn't work 'cause you can only use non-negative integer exponents)?

 

[clubbadubba]

BTW ballin', can a straight integer be a polynomial? I thought polynomials had to have variables in them somewhere (and x^0 doesn't work 'cause you can only use non-negative integer exponents)?

0 is non-negative.

Form of polynomials is:

f(x) = a0*x^0+a1*x^1+....+an*x^n

So yea, f(x) = 2*x^0 = 2 works, that was a silly hw question why would anyone answer any other way lol.

 

[The Star King]

Er, doesn't a polynomial need two or more terms, though? f(x) = 2 would be a monomial.

 

[ballin4life]

BTW ballin', can a straight integer be a polynomial? I thought polynomials had to have variables in them somewhere (and x^0 doesn't work 'cause you can only use non-negative integer exponents)?

Er, doesn't a polynomial need two or more terms, though? f(x) = 2 would be a monomial.

A constant function is technically a polynomial. A monomial is just a type of polynomial.

Just in case though I also put f(x) = 2 + (x-0)(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4)...(x-100)

0 is non-negative.

Form of polynomials is:

f(x) = a0*x^0+a1*x^1+....+an*x^n

So yea, f(x) = 2*x^0 = 2 works, that was a silly hw question why would anyone answer any other way lol.

Well the first two parts of the problem were about the polynomials n^2+n+41 (which gives primes for n= 0 ... 40) and n^2-81n+1681 (which gives primes for n= 1 ... 80), so one might think that you have to find something similar.

 

[The Star King]

Oh, I thought they were mutually exclusive for some reason. Probably because of the prefixes lol

 

[Sempiternity]

does anybody know anything about fluid dynamics

 

[dandan]

here is a quick easy math riddle:

prove or disprove: every even number that is greater than 2 can be written as the sum of 2 different primal number.

 

[ballin4life]

here is a quick easy math riddle:

prove or disprove: every even number that is greater than 2 can be written as the sum of 2 different primal number.

nice try goldbach

i'm sure you have a truly marvelous proof

 

[clubbadubba]

here is a quick easy math riddle:

prove or disprove: every even number that is greater than 2 can be written as the sum of 2 different primal number.

The only prime numbers less than 6 are 2, 3 and 5. Exhausting possible sums of 2, 3, and 5 we see:

2+3 = 5
2+5 = 7
3+5 = 8

Thus no two different prime numbers sum up to 6. Disproved, owned. Unless you are counting the negative numbers... in which case I ain't doin that.

does anybody know anything about fluid dynamics

I'm an aerospace engineering major and gonna graduate in spring, so yea I've had my share of fluids.

 

[dandan]

5+1 = 6
man, think harder.

(might have had to say 1 is considered a prime number).

 

[clubbadubba]

5+1 = 6
man, think harder.

(might have had to say 1 is considered a prime number).

yea but normally its not... http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html
Quote from the link:
"Why is the number 1 made an exception? This is a problem that schoolboys often argue about, but since it is a question of definition, it is not arguable."

But yea if 1 is considered prime then maybe its true, but I don't like proofs i just like disproving by counterexample lol so I'm not touchin it.

 

[The Star King]

here is a quick easy math riddle:

prove or disprove: every even number that is greater than 2 can be written as the sum of 2 different primal number.

Lol @ "quick easy math riddle". This problem has remained unsolved for two and a half centuries.

 

[Sempiternity]

Lol @ "quick easy math riddle". This problem has remained unsolved for two and a half centuries.

 

[Battlecow]

Hey I read about that in those terrible books about the Swedish chick.

 

[dandan]

actually i wrote it wrong, and it is sum of 2 primes, it can be the same prime, so it does not need 1, 3+3=6.
the one i said might be wrong, too lazy to think about it.

 

[asianaussie]

dunno how people can enjoy maths

would rather spend hours debating philosophy than even thinking about maths, and im not really one for philosophy

 

[The Star King]

Where the asian stereotypes at

 

[Battlecow]

Math hurts my head. I hate the stuff.

 

[asianaussie]

im a non-physics science, jpop + videogames asian

although every relevant aptitude test i've taken suggests im mathematically minded

 

[Battlecow]

Aptitude tests suck massive ****.

Like, in terms of girth and length, possibly the most massive **** ever recorded is sucked by all aptitude tests ever.

They're seriously the worst thing. Not even remotely helpful to anyone ever. They don't even seem like they would be. There's just no excuse for society accepting them as a thing.

 

[asianaussie]

someone's obviously mad because aptitude tests suggested he'd be best off studying foreign culture and/or environmental sciences

 

[ciaza]

Well, someone's aptitude test told them they were in the closet.

EDIT: Why do you do this to me aa.

 

[Battlecow]

Pretty close, actually; the only two jobs recommended when I last took an aptitude test were "PR Rep" and "Hair stylist."

Seriously, though, can we stop pretending that those are remotely useful? They obviously aren't, for anyone. How the **** could a test that transparently shallow know more about you than you? How could it know ANYTHING about you?

 

[asianaussie]

last aptitude test i got suggested i be a neurosurgeon, business accountant, general practitioner or a florist

the raw aptitude results stroked my ego lots though

you'd be a mad good hair stylist, i can see it

 

[Battlecow]

You and I should open a combination black-people-barber-shop/exotic florist's/smash bros. den in Adelaide.

Like, you go in there to get Giant African Sundews for your mom's birthday, but you realize that you're getting a bit nappy so you sit down to play some falcon dittos with your mate in the next chair as the legendary battlecow trims your 'fro.

 

[asianaussie]

adelaide is bleh, melbourne plz

guess the real estate is pretty cheap though

inb4 ciaza talking about canberra, which may as well be called dirkville

i think quickedits were removed because they were being abused or something, and i don't comprehend this

 

[ciaza]

canberra is bleh, melbourne plz

inb4 dean talking about cundletown, which may as well be called dirkville

 

[ballin4life]

what the hell are quick edits?

 

[Battlecow]

's where you could edit your post with something you forgot or correct grammar in the first, like, minute and then it wouldn't show up as a "last edited by..."

But Smashboards also stopped logging me out every five freaking minutes, so I'm actually not mad at them.

 

[ballin4life]

Why does it matter if it says "last edited by"?

 

[asianaussie]

ruins a lot of perfectly good posts

especially one liners

also people like to appear uncaring, and showing edits is detrimental to that pursuit of aloofness

 

[TANK64]

also, you don't have to go into the "go advanced" thing to edit. That's what I thought everyone was mad at lol, but yea, no beauty marks on my perfectly good one liner. It's not so clever then...

 

[cheeseball341]

Canberra and Cundletown fooking ****.

Self-h8ing-australian ******s should get out of my country.

 

[asianaussie]

i reckon you're still mad because f-throw > run off n-air twice got you like 4 times

 

[cheeseball341]

I'ma ask the URC to ban pikachu.

He has better matchups then metaknight anyway.

 

[Surri-Sama]

I'ma ask the URC to ban pikachu.

He has better matchups then metaknight anyway.

Might as well lol.

 

[Battlecow]

Just finished writing my first round of college application essays.

They're all about smash.

 

[asianaussie]

mate, that isn't gonna help your hair styling prospects at all

gotta learn to prioritise

 

[KeroKeroppi]

Well, someone's aptitude test told them they were in the closet.

LOL. i really enjoyed reading these last few pages. battlecow are you serious about your college essays?

if soo, give me an example of what one was about. im curious as to how you pulled that one off.