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Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now
SonofZ3:
And much cheaper! The best local vet (around here) charges about $170 for spaying, $43 for an office visit, and an assortment of charges adding up to about $125 per round of shots. The local humane society charges a $65 donation to adopt a cat that includes spaying or neutering, and the first round of shots. So we should all adopt some cats. Seriously. Also, give them half and half with breakfast.
Spluff:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 21 Aug 2010, 17:09 ---that is like fourth grade maths! Surely not? if that is the case though I'm sorry, my mind has run on a single track pretty much all summer :[
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The basic concept of it is obviously pretty simple, but when you start using the modulus in complex numbers, vectors, and calculus, especially in real world applications (motion and the like) it can get pretty tricky.
McTaggart:
Especially if you're doing that in a metric space designed specifically to make your assignment harder.
snalin:
--- Quote from: Allybee on 21 Aug 2010, 15:22 ---
--- Quote from: Jeans on 21 Aug 2010, 09:51 ---I imagine he's delving a little deeper than the idea of "I'm objectively right". Like it seems pretty easy on the surface but if you try to read the first couple of pages of Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes you quickly gather just how gosh dang complicated it can be.
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it seemed like he meant "absolute values" in the mathematical sense, as in the distance away from zero, which is generally considered to be a pretty simple subject (the absolute value of negative 4 is 4, for example). but I dunno.
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It's pretty simple, and I understand everything. The problem is figuring out how I can write the equations down, since there's no examples and no teachers. Which isn't much of a problem with easier problems, but for the harder ones you need to know how to write this stuff to figure out the solution. I can see that |x - 1| + |x + 1| = 2 gives that x equals (-1, 1), but I don't know how to get that down on paper.
Also what Spluff said. I think they said that we were going to use absolute values to learn about limits, but I'm not sure. Does that make any sense?
Barmymoo:
Edinburgh is awesome! I'm glad two of you have seen it so far :) (Simon so sorry for being a bit dense and not realising who you were at the time... I knew I knew you though!)
Bit stressful though. Jens was right when he said hectic. Today I've put my foot down and I'm not going flyering until I've finished props hunting for the next show, who wanted a budget two days ago. ARGH stress.
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