tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post5759335182642475228..comments2024-03-29T09:24:51.598+00:00Comments on MOONBASE CENTRAL: MAJOR MATHS MASON AND FERMAT'S LAST EXAMWOODSYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456645970983569001noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-31408360816160454242016-01-06T23:23:00.777+00:002016-01-06T23:23:00.777+00:00Think of real numbers as being on a line going off...Think of real numbers as being on a line going off in both directions. Imaginary numbers are in the spaces off that line!KevinDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-4521087506956335222016-01-06T21:34:02.946+00:002016-01-06T21:34:02.946+00:00Aren't all numbers imaginary Kev? How can one ...Aren't all numbers imaginary Kev? How can one particular one be?WOODSYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456645970983569001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-65364479740902826272016-01-06T21:32:00.786+00:002016-01-06T21:32:00.786+00:00Seeing maths is like trying to taste language! You...Seeing maths is like trying to taste language! You either can or you can't I think Paul. Presumably Mathematicians can. And as for those Scientific Calculators! What a nightmare! Give me a dictionary any day! ha haWOODSYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456645970983569001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-88706875801998119122016-01-06T20:58:05.126+00:002016-01-06T20:58:05.126+00:00Your last comment applies to me too, Woodsy. Havin...Your last comment applies to me too, Woodsy. Having had to help the boys with Maths suddenly made me understand things that completely eluded me when in school myself. Though understanding this time around was still up to a certain level, after which the wallet needed to come out to have some bright youngster take over the explaining...<br />Thing that bugged me most was having to resort to telling the boys "you need to try and 'see' it" which drove me up the walls when a maths teacher told me that in school.<br /><br />Best -- PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-72919560719238745292016-01-06T20:29:00.331+00:002016-01-06T20:29:00.331+00:00Just to make life more complicated, the square roo...Just to make life more complicated, the square root of minus 1 is an imaginary number! They are used for example in a.c. electrical calculations.KevinDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-36100546199861147032016-01-06T20:14:53.396+00:002016-01-06T20:14:53.396+00:00diving? I meant dividing!diving? I meant dividing!WOODSYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456645970983569001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-44899857268499057462016-01-06T20:11:44.580+00:002016-01-06T20:11:44.580+00:00Ha ha, Mrs. K sounds like Missus Moonbase, a level...Ha ha, Mrs. K sounds like Missus Moonbase, a level-head in the swirling storms of modern times! I too was a Maths duffer, forced to sit at the front of the class along with other herberts, so the teacher could give us extra help! I managed to tread water during Algebra but Calculus and Euclidian maths pushed my head right under the desk! Oddly enough, I know more Maths now than I ever did at School.WOODSYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456645970983569001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-28563016546499022792016-01-06T20:07:07.829+00:002016-01-06T20:07:07.829+00:00Oh no, not directions as well Kev! Jeepers! How mu...Oh no, not directions as well Kev! Jeepers! How much math can happen at once! I have just tried diving minus 1 by zero and cannot believe the online answer! minus infinity! Now what is that monster! WOODSYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456645970983569001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-83246080533953765692016-01-06T19:26:38.366+00:002016-01-06T19:26:38.366+00:00Hi Woodsy, I relate to what you say. At school I d...Hi Woodsy, I relate to what you say. At school I developed a distinct psychological fear generated by the white noise of maths lessons. I lived with the agonizing dread of being 'chosen' to speak up and provide a clueless answer to a question I couldn't grasp. I think in the end the maths teacher simply gave up and allowed me to doodle quietly in my jotter. But that was back then... these days I can thankfully count on a mathematically astute wife to guide me through the puzzling equations of life. All the best, Tony KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156181044707591026.post-61758620382679467952016-01-06T16:33:07.941+00:002016-01-06T16:33:07.941+00:00I was (and still am) hopeless at foreign languages...I was (and still am) hopeless at foreign languages at school. As for negative numbers, they make more sense when they have a meaning like +7cm means 7cm to the right and -7cm means 7cm to the left.KevinDnoreply@blogger.com