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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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But then, they're not that abstract if they apply to the real world, are they?
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What is abstract now will not be so in the future. Most of what you consider to be abstract, is now important in Physics. There's a quote "Maths is the Queen of Sciences, due to it's uselessness", and Hardy continues with this to say that "Number Theory is the Queen of Mathematics, due to it's supreme uselessness". That was less than a century ago, yet number theory is now used in encryption on the internet. None of mathematics will be abstract forever, but seeing the links between different areas is crucial. We're just not interested in applying it to the real world.
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By we you mean...?

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Mathematicians, as opposed to the Physicists that Sent comes so Sentsibly under.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Random wrote: We're just not interested in applying it to the real world.
Which is the fundamental disagreement between mathematicians and physicists.
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There, I will agree. Thus you are the physicist, and I the mathematician.
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Artemis Afrit
The only thing I know about math, is that I am destined to fail it.

And, oh yes. Yesterday, just as I was on the last question of my math exam, some asshole decided to pull the fire alarm. We were outside for nearly fifty minutes with snow falling and an extremely cold wind chill.

Boys and girls, if you suspect that someone may pull the fire alarm in the dead of winter, don't wear shredded stockings and a skirt to school.

We all ended up shivering on one of the hills surrounding our school, which doesn't offer much protection from the wind. I have no idea why the school was built where it is, it's basically in a crator.

We sat out there for ages, until the fire department came, and then sat there some more so that they could make certain that there actually wasn't a fire, which should have been damn well obvious as it took them over twenty flooping 'ecking minutes to get there, and the school should have been burning by then.

The same thing happened last year, during the school's annual production of The Nutcracker, so now we're all wondering if it was the same person.

Well, I'll say this, if they ever find out who pulled the alarm, that kid is doomed.
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


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:mouth: Oh, Canada...
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Nero Higher Spirit
Heh. That sucks. Wearing skirts in the winter...reminds me of the nearby Catholic school...you from a private or Catholic school?
And thank goodness my exams are over.
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Artemis Afrit
No, public high school.

I just didn't think I would end up outside that day, hence the skirt.

Mine are most certainly not over. I still have history and English to write.
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


Laura Branigan, Self-control

:mouth: Oh, Canada...
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Nero Higher Spirit
I have to say that that cold event has contradicted your title
wrote:Better than ever
:boybrr:
I would have gotten a cold.
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We start this Wednesday, so I guess my board is one of the last to finish.
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I just have Physics, Chemistry and Maths to get through. Regardless of the fact that I've already completed 3 maths modules this time round.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Random wrote: I just have Physics, Chemistry and Maths to get through. Regardless of the fact that I've already completed 3 maths modules this time round.
I've had 1/5 of my exams so far..
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Nero wrote: I have to say that that cold event has contradicted your title
wrote:Better than ever
:boybrr:
I would have gotten a cold.
I already had a cold. That just made it worse.

Studying World War One...
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


Laura Branigan, Self-control

:mouth: Oh, Canada...
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Artemis wrote:
Nero wrote: I have to say that that cold event has contradicted your title
wrote:Better than ever
:boybrr:
I would have gotten a cold.
I already had a cold. That just made it worse.

Studying World War One...
Myth debunking time: getting cold does not give you a cold, kids! Colds are an airborne virus and you get them from contact with other people, not from getting cold!
However, one study did find that if you've already caught the cold virus, getting cold can bring on the cold faster/make it worse.
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Sentynel wrote:
Random wrote: I just have Physics, Chemistry and Maths to get through.  Regardless of the fact that I've already completed 3 maths modules this time round.
I've had 1/5 of my exams so far..
You make me feel so much better. I've done half of mine. :D
My exams start on Thurs. English, then Math on Fri. and French sometime the next week.

Grade 10 math is so simple. Quadratics, trig, and basic analytical geometry. Soooo boring.
I wish I were a cat-dragon
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What age are you in 'Grade 10'?
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流口水的婊子和猴子的笨儿子。
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Random wrote:
Sentynel wrote:
Random wrote: I just have Physics, Chemistry and Maths to get through.  Regardless of the fact that I've already completed 3 maths modules this time round.
I've had 1/5 of my exams so far..
You make me feel so much better. I've done half of mine. :D
Only one left now!
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