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# 159
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:38, archived)
# 22/7
(estimate)
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:39, archived)
# yes
:)
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:39, archived)
# there is a better estimate
but i can go right and find it on a scrap of paper.

or go left and find beer.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:40, archived)
# hehehe
I don't really care.

I'm an engineer, that's close enough ;)
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:41, archived)
# ahh, geeky joke coming up
We asked three undergraduates to define pi:

Mathematician: a constant directly relating the circumference of a circle to its radius

Physician: 3.141592 (to 6d.p.)

Engineer: about 3.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:44, archived)
# hehehe
thought I'd probably use 3.1 or 3.14...

:)
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:46, archived)
# physicist?
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:46, archived)
# go grab a dictionary
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:47, archived)
# sorry
i'm going into medicine so automatically associate physician with that
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:48, archived)
# That's not that geeky!
(I helped save b3ta! dogsbollocks, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:46, archived)
# well fuck off then
i try. and fail, at least.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:46, archived)
# There's only 10 kinds of binary jokes..................
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:54, archived)
# AND MOST OF THEM ARE FUCKING SHIT
sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:55, archived)
# FindRoot[2 x - 20]
/mathematica
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:40, archived)
# i'm having to convert to maple
uni dictates so.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:40, archived)
# we had mathematica
but I only used it for calculus classes. We used matlab for engineering stuff
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:42, archived)
# I use my fingers
(I helped save b3ta! dogsbollocks, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:43, archived)
# maples open source isn't it
and i've never heard of matlab
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:43, archived)
# it's very expensive
We just had it (I think) because one of the professors wrote books about it

I think maple is open source
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:45, archived)
# maple isn't open source
it's about £1200.

or £10 if you're a student.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:45, archived)
# kind of like matlab then
it's $2000 or $90 if you're a student
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:46, archived)
# oh well
shows how little i know... mathematica confuses me muchly i keep writng long things then discovering that theres a single function to do it all for me... story of my life(in programming terms) really
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:47, archived)