First year Math - A TA's Perspective
08-26-2009 at 01:46 AM
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Trueee! yes, I do  . But I tried sleeping, and it doesn't work for me, so messed up sleeping patterns win! .. even when you're dead tired >.< |
I know all of a sudden I don't sleep at night anymore...this is new, last year I didnt do this...now I sleep at like 3 sometimes for an hour wake up at 4...sleep at 5 30 and wake up at 2 or 3...wait...wait...som etimes sleep at 7 wake up at 8
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08-26-2009 at 02:11 AM
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I know all of a sudden I don't sleep at night anymore...this is new, last year I didnt do this...now I sleep at like 3 sometimes for an hour wake up at 4...sleep at 5 30 and wake up at 2 or 3...wait...wait...som etimes sleep at 7 wake up at 8 |
Haha, same! Even though during the school year people would kill for sleep! Since we're talking about math here, ehem, that's way too little sleep! And you need sleep to do math, no ? haha
Anywayyys , it's not really worth those 1 or 2 hours of sleep, but they're definitely better than nothing :p
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08-26-2009 at 02:15 AM
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Haha, same! Even though during the school year people would kill for sleep! Since we're talking about math here, ehem, that's way too little sleep! And you need sleep to do math, no ? haha
Anywayyys , it's not really worth those 1 or 2 hours of sleep, but they're definitely better than nothing :p |
Amen...I mean Ameen...same thing hehe 
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08-26-2009 at 03:21 AM
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Meem and Noon are two letters in the arabic alphabet.
(One of my closest friends is arabic...and yes I need sleep)
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08-26-2009 at 03:31 AM
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Meem and Noon are two letters in the arabic alphabet.
(One of my closest friends is arabic...and yes I need sleep)
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LOL what? My point was Amen and Ameen are the same thing just in 2 different languages.
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08-26-2009 at 12:00 PM
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I apologize if I was wrong, but you guys are talking about Ramadan right?
It was my way of shoving myself back into the conversation, haha (the joke being, that's all the arabic I know xD Well, that and "Sandweeeesheh?") .
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08-26-2009 at 01:09 PM
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Haha, math genius and arabic, you sure you're not the next superman?
And yep, we were talking abour Ramadan  . Haha, love the "sandweesheh," even if I don't use it
PS- this thread is SO not related to math anymore =/
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08-26-2009 at 01:13 PM
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I apologize if I was wrong, but you guys are talking about Ramadan right?
It was my way of shoving myself back into the conversation, haha (the joke being, that's all the arabic I know xD Well, that and "Sandweeeesheh?") .
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LOL sandweeshi hahaha...well I'm sure that was an easy one to guess it pretty much sounds the same as the English word
And of course its about math still, we are talking about Arabic...which btw if you didn't know is the father of the numerical system we use today. It literally brought the rice of banking and advanced mathematics. With roman numerals it was very hard to do math as you might imagine
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08-26-2009 at 01:20 PM
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With roman numerals it was very hard to do math as you might imagine |
Nonsense! It's only logical that two "I"s times one "V" makes an "X".
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08-26-2009 at 01:41 PM
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I was so surprised when I found out they're called "Arabic" numerals. Roman numerals are really easy to learn as numbers, but with mathematical computations and what not.. I don't know how those Romans survived it >.<
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08-26-2009 at 01:47 PM
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I was so surprised when I found out they're called "Arabic" numerals. Roman numerals are really easy to learn as numbers, but with mathematical computations and what not.. I don't know how those Romans survived it >.<
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As I recall, they didn't
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08-26-2009 at 01:48 PM
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Nonsense! It's only logical that two "I"s times one "V" makes an "X".
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No no that's nonsense you need one II times one V to make an X....two I times times one V would just make two Vs
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Haha, we're still talking about them today, so in a weird way, they DID survive .
Also, I hope you guys know that we're talking about today's math not Roman numerals
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No no that's nonsense you need one II times one V to make an X....two I times times one V would just make two Vs |
"Two I times times one V"? What does that even mean?!
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08-26-2009 at 02:00 PM
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"Two I times times one V"? What does that even mean?!
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Nonsense! It's only logical that two "I"s times one "V" makes an "X".
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You tell me :p
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