Funny Dilbert for mathematicians
September 16, 2003
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Square root of a negative number is imaginary. I.e. it doesn't exist in reality.
A Möbius stripe is a geometric plane that only has one side.
Check out this Dilbert in LEGO page too.
Perfect parking formula
September 2, 2003
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This is fun. Someone has calculated/modelled the perfect S-shaped turn for parking your car.
You'll need to measure a few things first: the width of your car, your turn radius at a paricular rotation of the steering wheel and exactly where your midpoint is between the front and rear wheels.
The author of this 1 page long paper is Dr Rebecca Hoyle
Exam results arrived today
July 10, 2003
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The good news is that I passed. The bad news is that I didn't get a first. Close but not close enough.
This now completes my second year of my Mathematics with Computer Science degree I'm taking a City University
I'm not happy. My standards are very high and what pisses me off the most is that I got such poor results in the courses I found so easy, like Imperative Programming and Software Engineering. I can count the number of times I've come across something even near challanging in Imperative Programming course on my left hand.
I know it sounds cockey but it's the truth. What I must have lost marks on is probably silly semantics or other anal details that does not matter to real programmers.