Come to think of it, Thursday is our Thirst day. 

Its the day when we thirst for the ability to wake up on time and not miss our first class.

Its the day when I thirst for the right energy just so that I will not fall asleep in my 7.30 class :))

Its the day when Mia thirsts for a Theo class with no mind boggling quiz.

Its the day when we thirst for rain, heavy rain to come in the hope that classes will be suspened and that Ibarra will call not call us (girls) to recite in class.

Its the day when we thirst for a quick and succesful lab along with a not so time consuming postlab.

Its the day when we thirst for the weekend to come even though it is not exactly the bumming/breaktime weekend we have always wanted. 

We thirst for the day to be over.

And when it is over, there's a BIG sigh, relief, smile and joy that comes along with it.  

Thats when we say, "We're so glad its over. BUT THEN...get ready for another round next week!" :)) 

 We just cant get enough of it ;D

The easiest thing to do here is assign a value to x. If x = 3, then the integers involved would be 7, 9, and 11. We know this because we're told that the median is 9 and that the set consists of consecutive odd integers. The average of these three numbers is also 9. I assume you know why that is the case! This, by the way, will be true no matter what value you assign to x. Try it and  you'll see. The answer is (B).

source:  studyguidezone.com

Bilangan vampire, apaan tuh? bilangan yang bisa ngisep darah...

Entah apakah Vampire bener-bener ada atau gak? Tapi Di Film-film Vampire digambarkan sebagai makhluk bewujud manusia tapi mempunyai sifat yang berbeda dari manusia seperti menghisap darah, abadi, takut ama sinar matahari, bawang n bisa berubah jadi kelelawar.

Begitu juga bilangan vampire dalam matematika, bilangan tersebut tampak seperti bilangan pada umumnya tapi ternyata

Contoh Bilangan Vampire

1260 = 21 * 60
1395 = 15 * 93
1435 = 35 * 41
1530 = 30 * 51
1827 = 21 * 87
2187 = 27 * 81
6880 = 80 * 86

Coba perhatikan ke-7 contoh bilngan vampire diatas, semua bilangan disisi kanan merupakan hasil kali 2 bilangan (yang disebut fangs) dimana mengandung angka yang sama dengan bilangan disisi kanan

Jadi bilangan vampire, bisa didefinisikan sebagai hasil kali 2 bilangan dimana ketika bilangan tersebut dikalikan maka hasilnya adalah gabungan angka-angka 2 bilangan tersebut.

Contoh bilangan vampire yang mempunyai 2 fangs berbeda

125460  = 204 · 615 = 246 · 510
11930170  = 1301 · 9170 = 1310 · 9107
12054060 = 2004 · 6015 = 2406 · 5010
12417993 = 1317 · 9429 = 1347 · 9219
12600324 = 2031 · 6204 = 3102 · 4062
12827650 = 1826 · 7025 = 2075 · 6182
13002462 = 2031 · 6402 = 3201 · 4062
22569480 = 2649 · 8520 = 4260 · 5298
23287176 = 2673 · 8712 = 3267 · 7128
26198073 = 2673 · 9801 = 3267 · 8019
26373600 = 3600 · 7326 = 3663 · 7200
26839800 = 2886 · 9300 = 3900 · 6882
46847920 = 4760 · 9842 = 6290 · 7448
61360780 = 7130 · 8606 = 7613 · 8060
1001795850 = 10170 · 98505 = 19701 · 50850

Contoh bilangan Vampire yang mempunyai 3 fangs berbeda

13078260 =  1620 · 8073 = 1863 · 7020 = 2070 · 6318
107650322640 = 140532 · 766020 = 153204 · 702660 = 200760 · 536214
113024597400 = 125100 · 903474  = 152100 · 743094 = 257400 · 439101
119634515208 = 195351 · 612408 =  234156 · 510918 = 285513 · 419016

Bilangan Vampire diperkenalkan oleh Clifford A. Pickover pada tahun 94.

Lebih jauh mengenai bilangan vampire bisa di lihat di:

http://www.grenvillecc.ca/faculty/jchilds/vampire.htm

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VampireNumber.html

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Kita tau bahwa Nobel diprakasai oleh Alfred Nobel sang penemu dinamit yang menyisihkan royalti atas penemuan dinamitynya untuk penghargaan nobel

Sejak 1901 penghargaan telah di berikan untuk pencapaian dibidang fisika, sastra, psikolog atau medis dan perdamaian, tapi tidak untuk bidang matematika.

Konon katanya si Om Nobel dicerai oleh istrinya karena berselingkuh dengan seorang matematikawati terkenal pada saat itu bernama Gösta Mittag-Leffler, tapi bagaimanapun tidak ada bukti sejarah yang menyatakan bahwa cerita itu benar malah menurut sejarah si om Nobel tidak menikah (alias Jomblo seumur hidup, kacian banget yach..)

Sebenar penyebab tidak ada nobel untuk matematika karena si Om Nobel tidak menyadari bagaimana matematika begitu bermanfaat untuk umat manusia. Si Om nobel tidak tertarik dengan "ilmu teoritis" seperti matematika dan berpikiran bahwa bidang fisika, sastra, psikolog atau medis dan perdamain lebih memberikan manfaat nyata untuk umat manusia dibanding matematika.

Untuk matematika sendiri ada namanya penghargaan mendali field, penghargaan tertinggi dalam matematika yang setingkat dengan penghargaan Nobel

Axiom 1. (Dichotomy) A property is positive if and only if its negation is negative.

Axiom 2. (Closure) A property is positive if it necessarily contains a positive property.

Theorem 1. A positive property is logically consistent (i.e., possibly it has some instance).

Definition. Something is Godlike if and only if it possesses all positive properties.

Axiom 3. Being Godlike is a positive property.

Axiom 4. Being a positive property is (logical, hence) necessary.

Definition. A property P is the essence of x if and only if x has P and P is necessarily minimal.

Theorem 2. If x is Godlike, then being Godlike is the essence of x.

Definition. NE(x): x necessarily exists if it has an essential property.

Axiom 5. Being NE is Godlike.

Theorem 3. Necessarily there is some x such that x is Godlike.

Anda mengerti apa yang dikatakan om Godel? kalo saya enggak soalnya saya gak bisa bahasa inggris, menurut saya Tuhan itu adalah aksioma, adalah titik awal dari segela awal bukan theorema yang harus kita cari pembuktiannya

]]> http://allgirlschool.wordpress.com/?p=125 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:18:31 +0000 allgirlschool http://allgirlschool.wordpress.com/?p=125 Bubba and I started school on Tuesday. It was supposed to be on Monday, but it just didn't happen. So far so good. I'm always amazed how a hiatus will prompt a real spurt in her abilities. I'm always thinking that we'll have to ease back into things after a break, but somehow things have melded in her head and she comes out of the gate stronger than before. Her reading is so quick and easy now. (Although she did read quite a bit over the summer, so she didn't have a real break from that, just no mandatory reading.) Her adding and subtracting are coming much more easily than before.

I'm excited for this year. She's started really delving into subjects that interest her lately. Rocks are her new passion. Ever since our trip to South Dakota, she's been quite the rock hound. We've been to the library a couple of times and I think we have now checked out every book they have on rocks, crystals and gems. She's also taken the hammer to our landscaping river rocks trying to find geodes or crystals or something. I've had to nix that, but am impressed with her passion. We brought her back some polished agate slices from our Utah trip. When I handed them to her Monday morning she looked at me like she'd just won the lottery. It was great. What she doesn't know is that we also brought her home a small stash of already opened geodes but are saving those for her birthday in a couple of weeks. We're planning on a geology unit so we can incorporate this rock love, but need to start with the human body science stuff so that we can visit the human body exhibit at the science center. It's only here through October, so it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

Today, I:

1] Woke up at 11:09 AM. Exactly. Amazing, right? I actually took note of the time on my alarm clock.
2] Dressed and ate breakfast, which consisted of vanilla yogurt + Kashi cereal. It was surprisingly bland. Kind of depressing.
3] Went to class. Mom picked me up at the house 12:30ish and drove to class; I was like five minutes early which is the latest I've been so far.
4] Talked about vectors, which I pretty much know. They have speed... they have "magnitude"... they have a direction... blah blah blah.
5] Asked the Herr a question about cos (T) and sin (T). For those of you who have forgotten every little smidgen of Precalculus you have ever even touched on, the cos and the sin create a circle in Parametric. Basically, I think cosine becomes the X and sine the Y. Then I asked what exactly was a cosine, and the teacher was like, it's a function. Blehh.
6] Went on the longest streetcar ride ever. Down at Pioneer, we got stalled for like five minutes because there was an ambulance sitting smack on the tracks. [Hey, that rhymed, "smack" and "tracks".] Got down to 23rd eventually.
7] Bought a MMCF and some type of coffeecake at SBucks, which I am all too lazy to write out.
8] Went to Office Depot and... bought stuff.
9] Went home and watched Ocean's Thirteen. It was pretty good; I liked how the end worked out. People said it sucked though. I mean, I could see how it sucked, but I enjoyed it.

Yesterday I watched I Am Legend, which was okay. There were parts where it was scary, but after seeing the mutant things, it was kind of like... ahaaha totally scary, yunno? They looked like mini- Voldemorts, or monsters straight out of a video game. Idk. I'm not exposed to enough video gameyness to know what video game, but... "video game." I'm not gonna be intellectual and talk about the symbolism of the movie, but overall it was an extremely depressing film. Equal to PMSing, basically.

Stitchbunny, please resist from exploiting others' nationalities. I follow this one blog on LJ called "We Are The Moon" or something along those lines, and I was reading the author's latest post. Well, she put down her to-do list, and she had to do all these assignments in German. So I put two and two together, and I was like, HAY GAIZ this old guy I know is German. Our class has been asking the Herr a ton of questions, like what's that thing on the O [I know, magically, that it's an umlaut] and other kind of exploit-ish questions. Well, I think the Herr is exploiting me and AM's Taiwaneseness. Like, with the whole Einstein thing. I mean, AM and I are the only two Chineseish kids in the class. Everybody else is like Korean or something.

So I found this meme from another LJ blog [not We Are The Moon] and I think I might as well try it.  The directions are to list five of your favorite fandoms and for each a reason why they wouldn't work in real life.  Well, here I go.

1]  Uchiha Sasuke and Sai.  [Ooh, the mystery behind Sai's name...]
Why: There's actually a small chance that this pairing might actually work, but over all, the chances are far too slim.  Basically, Sasuke can't love; he's been living his life saturated in hate for his brother and hate for Oro and hate for basically everything else that he's now incapable of any other emotion.  Sai is basically Sasuke-- he can't love, can't get angry, because he's been forced to separate himself from feeling anything except maybe fear.  Sai is bound by duty and Sasuke is bound by his goals.  Although Sai admits to a strong mental sensation when the two first meet, the feeling is supposed to be extreme fear.  That doesn't work out to love... is Sai scared that Sasuke's going to [insert line from Pitbull ft. Lil Jon song that I can't remember but perfectly paraphrases what I'm trying to say here.  Don't brick me, bro]?

2] Akasuna no Sasori and Deidara
Why: Well, for starters, Sasori's dead. Deidara is also dead. But if they had any love while they were alive... um, not sure it would have even existed. I mean, Sasori's a puppet. Puppets don't have peepees. Sasori also happens to be wooden, right? Kind of odd. I don't know Sasori very well, but he seems like the kind of guy who'd get so fixated on his goals that he'd forget about love entirely. He holds love for his deceased family, but I haven't seen him really love anything else... something might come up in the future of Naruto? Sasori and Deidara are certainly both warmer people than Sasuke or Sai, per se, but they're still pretty chillayy.

3] Cross Marian and Allen Walker
Why: Cross Marian is currently dead. Allen Walker is in love with Rinari Lee. Enough said. Otherwise, this relationship probably existed, with Allen only half-willing to cooperate.

4] Kuran Kaname and Kiriuu Zero [cue nosebleed]
Why: They harbor a strong hate for each other, somewhat akin to the animosity between Jacob Black and Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga. Zero has a strong distrust towards all vampires in general, and as benevolent Kaname is, Kaname is no exception. Both are pretty gay but they'd both give their lives to save that of Yuki's, so even a smidgen of a spark between them would be overshadowed by their duty towards Yuki. In the case that the two did happen to have little innocent crushes on each other, their respective pride would also get in the way [and how the hell are they supposed to meet to talk or crap like that anyway? I mean, Zero gets in all this trouble for shirking duty, but if Kaname got in a ten-yard radius of Zero, Zero's fear would eclipse his emotion and Kaname would be dead].

5] L and Yagami Light
Why: Even though Light's last name reads "I'm a gay" backwards, their relationship is kind of... I dunno. I like the part in the manga where they get handcuffed together though. Haaha and the fanflash made by Snow-whoever. [OMG JT]

Problems I do out of "The Official SAT Study Guide" are:

• p533 #10
• p549 #9
• 614 #14

Have a great week, y'all! I'm lookin' forward to your comments.

They'll teach you how to mathematically discover the maximum possible score for a Decathlon!

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Step1 : Factories all the numbers into their prime factors.

Step2 : Collect all the common factors.

Step3 : Raise each factor to its minimun available power and multiply.

Example Find HCF of 100, 200 and 250

Step1 :

100 = 2^2 * 5^2

200 = 2^3 * 5^2

250 = 5^3 * 2^1

Step2 :

2 , 5

Step3 :

2^1 * 5^2 = 50

Step1 : Factorize all the numbers into their prime factor.

Step2 : Collect all the distinct factors.

Step3 : Raise each factor to its maximum available power and multiply.

Example Find LCM of 10,20,25

Step1 :

10 = 2^1 * 5^1

20 = 2^2 * 5^1

25 = 5^2

Step2 :

2,5

Step3:

2^2 * 5^2 = 100

The biggest advantage of using this method lies in the fact that we can find out the LCM of any number of numbers in a straight line without using the conventional method.

As a last resort - and for me, it always seemed like the last resort, there was the Library.

So have times changed? You bet. Recent statistics from the Canadian Council on Learning seem to indicate that two out of three parents today feel incapable of helping their children with homework, or after school assignments.

As a parent what do you do; who do you turn to?

As a student since it’s unlikely you can turn to a parent; what do you do?

According to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study, you both turn to the Internet. The study’s research revealed that the Internet has become an increasingly important feature of the learning environment for teenagers and is used as an essential study aid outside the classroom.

Students and parents report that the Internet is vital to completing school projects, and has effectively replaced the library for a large number of online students. As many as 71% of students surveyed report using the Internet as their primary source for researching, and completing major projects.

If you’re a student, or the parent of a student, bookmark the following web sites which will provide comprehensive and reliable educational information that can be used to research school projects, and homework assignments.

MSN Encarta

The free MSN Encarta site features more than 4,500 articles pooled from Microsoft Encarta and comes with dictionaries, maps, fast facts, interactive quizzes, handy homework tools, and more.

Refdesk

Since 1995, Refdesk.com, has served as a one-click springboard to many of the Web’s top dictionaries, encyclopedias, calculators, atlases, news headlines, and search engines. The site also includes a handy “homework helper” section that provides help in all subjects for students in every grade.

HowStuffWorks

Have you ever wanted to know why an earthquake occurs? How CD burners work? What the sun is made of? These questions and a large number of others related to computers/electronics, automobiles, science, entertainment, and people, are all answered at this award-winning Web site. Simply type a query into the search window or peruse the topics by category. Extras include free newsletters, surveys, and printable versions of all answers.

Novelguide.com

The Web’s answer to those black- and yellow-striped Cliff Notes is Novelguide.com, a reliable and free source for literary analysis of classic and contemporary books. The site offers character profiles, metaphor and theme analysis, and author biographies.

Math.com

This site provides help in mathematics-related subjects, including basic grade-school math, calculus, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics. Practice exercises are automatically graded, and this free site also features a glossary, calculators, homework tips, math games, and lesson plans for teachers.

Wolfram Mathworld

With more than 12,600 entries this is one of the most extensive mathematics resources on the Internet.

Free Translation

Perfect for language studies, this handy Web site automatically converts text from one language to another. Just type and paste up to 1,800 words into the search window and then select the desired language. Alternatively, you can cut and paste a Web URL to convert the entire site.

No Fear Shakespeare

No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.

Science Made Simple

Science classes aren’t as easy for some to grasp as for others. At Science Made Simple, students of all ages can get detailed answers to many of science’s questions, read current news articles related to science, get ideas for school projects, and take advantage of unit conversion tables.

Added by my friend TechPaul of Aplus Computer Aid, Menlo Park, California.

If I may add? Wiley Publishing has made the collection of Cliff Notes available free online– and made the site an excellent test-prep resource.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/