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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:29
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

I've never done anything with Matlab, is it that bad?


It has a learning curve, and has its moments when you curse its designers, but overall it's quite powerful.
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Points: 16122 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:38
Originally posted by Anthony H. Anthony H. wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Anthony H. Anthony H. wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

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HOLY sh*t I JUST GOT IN TO COLLEGE


where?


University of Mary Washington.


Going to accept the offer or hold out on other applications?


This was my first choice, so I'm going to accept it. Approve

Bro!  I thought we were gonna chill in Madison! Cry

Also, I'm home now...
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:43
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Don't count?  Why, because Anthony H. was in diapers when I got into college?

Really enjoying the scrapping of matlab for BASIC, you should do the programming on an Apple ][ or something.  Tongue

I'm not into Macs. ;-) And I am not disputing that Matlab is much more powerful, but it was so much easier for me to create a program that worked with any user input on Basic than in Matlab. I think I actually did way more than she was asking for, because after I had done the quadratic equation and cramer's rule I looked again and it seemed like all she wanted to do was for us to show that we found the answers with a computer. But I was committed, and I did the algebraic operations of complex numbers in rectangular co-ordinates in Basic anyway! I finally got it all working, I just want to figure out some way to separate the multiple if statements to prevent them all from being evaluated (i.e. x<0 and y<0, and there's another case where I intend only x<0, but because x<0 on both of them it applies both changes to the third variable the statements are modifying) without just shoving the print end commands at the end of each line.
if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:44
I like Macs for one thing - Logic.  If I had the cash, I'd buy myself one just so I could use that program. 
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:48
Further dating myself - Apple ][ computers actually predated the Macintosh brand.
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My dad has an old Apple ][ in our basement.  Used to have an original Apple computer but he got rid of it I think.
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surrounded by math freaks.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:52
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Don't count?  Why, because Anthony H. was in diapers when I got into college?

Really enjoying the scrapping of matlab for BASIC, you should do the programming on an Apple ][ or something.  Tongue

I'm not into Macs. ;-) And I am not disputing that Matlab is much more powerful, but it was so much easier for me to create a program that worked with any user input on Basic than in Matlab.


That's fine for the short-term goal of this assignment - but no matter how much it sucks, get your Matlab proficiency up if you want to get hired anywhere.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:55
Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

surrounded by math freaks.


I'm not a math freak.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:59
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

surrounded by math freaks.


I'm not a math freak.


I am, and proud to be so.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:01
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

surrounded by math freaks.


I'm not a math freak.


I am, and proud to be so.

I am much too unlearned to consider myself one. LOL
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Points: 16310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:03
I'm jealous.
I can barely count to 10.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:03
How'd your semester go Matt?
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:06
Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

I'm jealous.
I can barely count to 10.

0, 1, 10, easy. LOL


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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:07
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

How'd your semester go Matt?

It was alright, although I begin to think that I am not particularly fond of my major.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:08
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

How'd your semester go Matt?

It was alright, although I begin to think that I am not particularly fond of my major.


oops LOL
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Points: 16122 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:12
Yeah, now may be a little late to realize that.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:14
We're too dumb for our own military.

Edited by Padraic - December 21 2010 at 22:14
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:20
The report by The Education Trust found that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don't get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military. Questions are often basic, such as: "If 2 plus x equals 4, what is the value of x?"

srsly?
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Points: 6088 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2010 at 22:23
I hate math.
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