Dear Mefites, a long time ago I got a degree in graphic design but never worked in the industry. Along the way I somehow (don't remember how or why or when) became interested in math and I finished a
graduate diploma in maths as a distance learning course in my free time. I am considering applying for masters programmes in maths or related subjects but ... can I? Should I?
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posted by Cat Set Go
on Mar 31, 2013 -
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A colleague alluded to a passage from Sherlock Holmes where all the evidence is re-written as formal logic propositions, leading to a mathematical solution that matches Holmes' solution (and is far from trivial). Does anyone else know where I could find this passage?
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posted by Anon Ymous
on Dec 12, 2012 -
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I know the price of something now and what the price was 2 years ago - how do I calculate that as an annual percentage increase?
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posted by jontyjago
on Oct 19, 2012 -
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Maths (math) people of the US: I need your help in working out if certain British conventions would be understood or standard in the US classroom.
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posted by cincinnatus c
on Jul 10, 2012 -
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Help me understand the efficacy of a headbutt as an offensive opening gambit in a bout of fisticuffs...
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posted by dougrayrankin
on Feb 24, 2011 -
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But Sir, what is x? Teaching students algebra for the first time. They keep wanting to put values in for x, and write that down.
E.g. x + x = . Becomes 1 + 1 = 2, in their books. Whereas I want x + x = 2x.
Does anyone have any strategies, or techniques to overcome this?
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posted by 92_elements
on Nov 11, 2010 -
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I have a list of 10 questions to help prepare for an exam. Of these 10 questions, 6 will be selected for the exam paper. Of the 6 on the exam paper I need to choose 3 to write an essay on. How many do I ACTUALLY need to research to be okay on the day?
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posted by nothing too obvious
on Jun 10, 2010 -
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If something takes 2 hours to complete and is then re-run and takes only 1 hour ... is that 100% quicker or 50% quicker?
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posted by cantthinkofone
on Aug 13, 2009 -
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Interested to know more about the 'numbers' in JS Bach's music. Sometime ago I heard a radio programme about how some of Bachs music had patterns in which could be viewed as significant outside of what the music sounded like.
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posted by southof40
on Apr 13, 2009 -
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GISfilter -- I have a PostGIS table containing spatial data in the form of a few thousand shapefiles. Anybody know a quick way I can move *all* of them by about 40 metres?
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posted by genghis
on Jan 10, 2009 -
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