this morning
May. 21st, 2002 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ajvaI cycled to the tube station; it saved me 10 mins.
Stef *will* be proud. I wonder if I can get him to study some algebra in return. If he's on a mission to get me ultra-fit, then surely I can be on a mission to cure him of his maths-dunceness?
*ponders*
Stef *will* be proud. I wonder if I can get him to study some algebra in return. If he's on a mission to get me ultra-fit, then surely I can be on a mission to cure him of his maths-dunceness?
*ponders*
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Hurrah! *grin*
Date: 2002-05-21 01:55 am (UTC)Re: Hurrah! *grin*
Ha! Stef once claimed to be a maths dunce and I thought he was exaggerating. He said algebra, in particular, was something he had never been able to get the hang of. Now I already knew that he likes to see things applied rather than just *being*, so I thought a good way to see how much he knew would be to go through the proof that 0.9(repeating)=1.
If you've not come across this proof before, it is in fact a very straightforward algebraic exercise which only runs to about 4 lines at most. However, my lovely Stef was confused by it. The man is a genius with plants, and a highly impressive natural linguist, but he can add nane (as we say in Scotland).
Anne. xxx
P.S. Yes, some people still deny that 0.9(rep)=1 but I think they're mad.