Just thought I'd post something very random, but then I noticed the maths stuff above and it reminded me of advanced higher maths, which i just finished. So I just thought I'd talk some general @!#$ about maths.
I was quite good at maths, at least I thought I was until this year. I was top of the year in my Higher prelim and got an A without doing much studying. I thought Advanced Higher would be much the same, but boy was I wrong.
It all started when we were told that we would be doing work on imaginary numbers.
What is the point in that? We had to learn about
i which stands for imaginary (surprisingly)
i=(-1)^0.5 (the square root of 1) which for years we had been told does not exist. We had to use various theorems and equations to work out stuff realting to
i including
De Moivre's Theorem:
If z = r cos (x) +
i r sin (x)
then z^n = r^n {cos n(x) +
isin n(x)} when n is a natural number.
Then we had to prove why things were true, by using methods like proof by induction, which was really simple, and one of the only things I remember. It had three basic steps:
1. Prove true for k=1
2. Assume true for k=k
3. Prove true for k=(k+1)
If you could prove this then it was true.
I did higher PE last year too, and that was a helluva lot easier. We did basketball and badminton, and had to do an investigation on badminton. I really suck at it, and only did well in the course because I play basketball, and am reasonably good at it.
I did Chemistry as well, advanced higher, but it wasn't as bad as maths.
Now I'm going to Strathclyde Uni, to do an MEng in
Computer and Electronic Systems apparently. I don't totally know what I'm in for, but hope that I can get a good job after it, and maybe learn how to work a computer properly.
I was out tonight at the snooker club, and I met someone from my year at school who left 2 years ago to start working. He's a total bam! Does anyone else talk about bams? Back me up here Spikeman, surely you know what a bam is?
By the way what bit of Glasgow are you from anyway?
And on the subject of teh Chilli's, has anyone else got their new album, it's quite good, me is liking it. Also Oasis' new album is amazing, a bit of a change from some of the classics, but good nonetheless. Is anyone going to T in the park, should be good with them headlining, if only I could afford to go.
Since I'm in quite a random kind of mood I'll talk about something completely different now.
Is anyone watching the golf from Loch Lomond? Barry Hume is doing quite well for an amateur. I reckon Sandy Lyle could win it, that would be a turn up for the books.
I can't think of anything to say. I've got shitty work tomorrow. I work in ASDA, does anyone else have a really @!#$ job like that? The only good thing's the pay.
Now I'm getting quite bored, so I'll just post this.
Bazza