Skydie Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Recently many players have been arguing about Mathematics in these forums. Many have accused others of being inferior in the art of Mathematics and added emotion language in. Things are getting tense, I understand... That is why I have setup Maths Challenge. Anyone who argues anything about Maths should show they are worth their substance and have a challenge here. Challenge layout: Person 1 challenges Person 2 Person 1 comes up with 3 questions (which they can answer) to challenge Person 2 Person 2 completes them Person 2 comes up with 3 questions (which they can answer) to challenge Person 1 Person 1 completes them Done. Current challenges: Mus challenging Midknight. Doom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qlx Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Mus challenging Qlx. If a K/D Is <1, It is common sense to call it negative, altough it mathematically isn't correct. I refuse to accept that Maths win over common sense. Argument over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
residente Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 lOvOl vs WhaleTits, forget maths doxthefox and Doom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skydie Posted January 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 lOvOl vs WhaleTits, forget maths The amount of arguments they've hard, hard to pick which topic they'd have to argue about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mus Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 I would never challenge Qlx. I'm only interested in difficult or interesting maths questions. The notion of positive and negative numbers is neither, and clearly Qlx doesn't understand so there is no point in arguing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidChan Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 1+3+3 = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mus Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Why you do stupid troll question? At least make it suitable for trolling: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0 = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aellectris Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Why you do stupid troll question? At least make it suitable for trolling: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+x0 = Doesn't want it to be too difficult for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mus Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Pfff as if. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
residente Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 The amount of arguments they've hard, hard to pick which topic they'd have to argue about. lovol vs ui then xNOVAxPRIMEx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxthefox Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 If there were 1000 dicks on the wall how many would you choke on? NmExCrUiSeRz and Reaper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuparu Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 1+3+3 = 133 if + is an append operator or 7 if + is an addition operator xNOVAxPRIMEx and akanna 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Math/Logic problem to all that think they are at least half as smart as I am: Assuming Pinocchio's nose grows at a certain length after each time that he tells a lie, and shrinks by that same amount every time he admits the truth (it stops after reaching original length pre-lies), what is his nose length going to be after a few seconds of him saying "my nose is growing?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzaiguy Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 This wouldn't be a problem similar to the original Pinnochi paradox would it? Like say, the nose would not grow at first, so the statement that Pinnochio's nose is growing, as in is growing at this very moment, is false. But after a second or so, his nose then grows, fulfilling the condition that Pinnochio's nose grows when he tells a lie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midknight Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 My challenges to whoever will accept them. 1) Imagine you have a standard NBA basketball with a rope tightly wound around its equator. Now imagine you have a rope similarly wrapped around the equator of the Earth. You have to add enough length to the ropes so that they ring the respective spheres one foot higher (ie, the ropes are floating in a circle one foot above the surface of the ball/Earth). How much more do you have to add to the rope around the Earth than to the rope around the ball? 2) How many grooves does a standard 12" Gramophone (vinyl) record have? 3) You have a 12" Gramophone record with a 3" label. Presuming that it plays from exactly 6" out and ends 1.5" from the center, how far has the needle moved in playing the entire record? Bonus) A man is 1km from a tree. He is riding a Segway that travels at 20km/h. To reach the tree, he must first travel half the distance. From there, he must travel half the remaining distance. Each time he travels half the distance, he must then travel half the remaining distance. You can halve the remaining distance infinitely. Does he ever reach the tree and, if so, how long does it take? JohnRipley and akanna 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 This wouldn't be a problem similar to the original Pinnochi paradox would it? Like say, the nose would not grow at first, so the statement that Pinnochio's nose is growing, as in is growing at this very moment, is false. But after a second or so, his nose then grows, fulfilling the condition that Pinnochio's nose grows when he tells a lie. Damn it, someone else thought of it first!?!?!??! flob, we live in an age where nothing is left to discover....... you have no idea how many things I thought I created or discovered, and then found out that someone beat me to the punch. Why, oh why couldn't I have lived in Ancient Greece, where society was more or less acceptably developed, yet most things were blissfully uninvented, and I wouldn't have to find out the hard way that someone else came up with several theological, philosophical, or practical concepts I thought to be mine own........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzaiguy Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 My challenges to whoever will accept them. 1) Imagine you have a standard NBA basketball with a rope tightly wound around its equator. Now imagine you have a rope similarly wrapped around the equator of the Earth. You have to add enough length to the ropes so that they ring the respective spheres one foot higher (ie, the ropes are floating in a circle one foot above the surface of the ball/Earth). How much more do you have to add to the rope around the Earth than to the rope around the ball? 2) How many grooves does a standard 12" Gramophone (vinyl) record have? 3) You have a 12" Gramophone record with a 3" label. Presuming that it plays from exactly 6" out and ends 1.5" from the center, how far has the needle moved in playing the entire record? I quit because of lack of metric system. Bonus) A man is 1km from a tree. He is riding a Segway that travels at 20km/h. To reach the tree, he must first travel half the distance. From there, he must travel half the remaining distance. Each time he travels half the distance, he must then travel half the remaining distance. You can halve the remaining distance infinitely. Does he ever reach the tree and, if so, how long does it take? Eh, 3 minutes I guess. Even if he has to travel half the remaining distance each time, I assume he travels the distance at a constant speed of 20km/h. So in the end, his average speed throughout the journey is simply 20km/h. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 My challenges to whoever will accept them. 1) Imagine you have a standard NBA basketball with a rope tightly wound around its equator. Now imagine you have a rope similarly wrapped around the equator of the Earth. You have to add enough length to the ropes so that they ring the respective spheres one foot higher (ie, the ropes are floating in a circle one foot above the surface of the ball/Earth). How much more do you have to add to the rope around the Earth than to the rope around the ball? 2) How many grooves does a standard 12" Gramophone (vinyl) record have? 3) You have a 12" Gramophone record with a 3" label. Presuming that it plays from exactly 6" out and ends 1.5" from the center, how far has the needle moved in playing the entire record? Bonus) A man is 1km from a tree. He is riding a Segway that travels at 20km/h. To reach the tree, he must first travel half the distance. From there, he must travel half the remaining distance. Each time he travels half the distance, he must then travel half the remaining distance. You can halve the remaining distance infinitely. Does he ever reach the tree and, if so, how long does it take? Imma not sure about basketballs, or Gramaphone records, I usually tend to avoid both of these in my day-to-day life, but I'll take a crack at the bonus. 1: Seems very much like the Ancient Greece problem of Hercules and Tortise, except the tree is not running away, thus making all the divisions a bit redundant...... 2: Why does he beat about the bush with all these half distances and not just keep going? Seems lot easier, especially since he'd probably have to stop to make calculations and measurements to get everything exactly right to all the decimal places..... not to mention calculate his speed to make up for the stops, unless he can make the appropriate measurements and calculations on the go, in which case I solute him, and hope that he finds what he's looking for once he gets to the tree. 3 Ok, first at a speed of 20 km/h it takes 3 minutes to cross 1 km, therefore 1.5 minute to cross 0.5 4. I'm assuming that we have to use the geometric series formula of Sinfinite = T1/ (1 - r) so that would look like: Sinfinite = 1.5/ (1-0.5) = 1.5/0.5 = 3 minutes, which means that I retardedly overthought your problem, which I guess was the desired effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarDuck Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Banzai, I think he reaches the tree only if he has infinite time. I also quit because lack of metric system. He takes 1.5 mins to get to half the distance. ( Edit) Doom ninja'd me :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeray Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 I am pro maths but I don't like this UI so I am not participating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Analog Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 so many people are so retarded....they kept saying G + G = GG isnt true wtf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BestPlayer Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 ure right in da world of math two letters (wariables or konstants) nekst to eashother means dey r multiplied i guess dere r lots of nub here lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterNigga Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 nigga + nigga = 2 slaves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinGofDaBerG Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 nigga + nigga = 2 slaves I fine this offensive, you have been warned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mus Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Anyone want a more abstract maths problem? For instance, if a function is continuous, then does that mean it is also differentiable? Answer by proof or counter example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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