Math tests gone wrong...

[planovet]

[toypusher]

I love the last one!!!

[Sam I am]

Part (b) on the first question: Does the object continue to move after it comes to rest?
Huh? By definition, doesn't "rest" mean "not moving"?

[Sparksalot]

Dewd, if you enjoyed that, you need to check out this site:


Britney Spears' Guide to
Semiconductor Physics


http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

[ARKPAT]

Pat

[oklahomajewel]

I had to laugh out loud when I got to that last one....

[Joanne]

I have tears running down my cheeks from the last one. Of course I'm a bit of a nerd so I find it quite funny. Of course Dilbert is written about MY office.

Joanne

[Joanne]

When I was looking for my very first job out of college I interviewed with General Dynamics in San Diego. During my tour of the plant I got to see cruise missles in various states of fabrication and testing. At the time I thought they were very hi-tech and complex machines.

This explanation has been around for a long time, but has always been a favorite of mine. It explains in detail how these amazing devices work.

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

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P.S. - I didn't get the job and ended up in Vegas doing computer work for casinos.

Joanne

[asianflava]

Yeah, but you remembered what he said after all these years.

[Wimperdink]

It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

P.S. - I didn't get the job
Joanne

You really need to consider a career in politics after all of that. A prime candidate I must say.

P.S. - I almost used your quote in my signature but then my head spun around on my shoulders 3 times after rereading it and decided that it may cause permanent damage if I read it again.

[planovet]

Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

[Roly Nelson]

I remember this exact math question when I was studying quantitave analisis in my collage extension courses. If I recall correctly, here is the answer:

The disproportionate force exhibited by the frickshunless ramped slope, unduely creates enough extemperanious energy to exert pre-determined deflection of the coiled un-reflexus instrument at the far end. This mittigating resistance creates an inexcapeable reversal of energy that translates into triangulization of the known factor. Thiat results in the final annalisis of proceedure that fractulizes the indeterminate ultimate outcome. So, the answer is yes, and the force factor is X-Y = 1,000,000th to the 4th power.

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you............
Roly

[Joanne]

I need to make it clear that I am not the original author of the missle guidance explanation! It has floated around the "nerd" crowd and I always thought it was great.

Of course I also think that's the exact same kind of explanation we are getting about the current economic meltdown.

Joanne

[Roly Nelson]

Right on, Joanne, truer words were never spoken. My post was answering the original question of the first poster, Planovet.
Roly

[Bristol Delica]

An equal grasp of history is shown by these exam answers:

1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible,Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children,Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”

3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.

9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.

10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”

11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.

14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.

15. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah.”

16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.

If ignorance is bliss, these kids must be really happy!

IAnJ