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Hi Guys

Hi Bobby, thanks for the help and the links.

So busy at the moment with this prep work. Trying to get all this stuff into my head so I know it rather than having to refer to the book. At the moment I am just jumping back and forth between the chapters, not sure if that is the best way to go or not.

50-50 is SOUND!!

I think I will have Emo Phillips or maybe Sam Elliot and for my dizzy but inspirational wife I will have Sophia Loren, or maybe Audrey Hepburn, who will star as an urn which has a telepathic link to the afterlife (presuming she was cremated, if not old Sam will have his work cut out for him pulling the coffin about town).

Sweden sounds cool too, though we will have to take our own beer. I don't fancy paying $40.00 every time we need more. Although money, should not be a problem with our Nobel coin.

Superb, thats cheered me up no end.

Yes, forums are very cool for those times.

Got my new calculator today, been playing around with that. Also very cool.

Maple in my pocket

Darn.. I thought I saw it for a second then, when checking and looking a the
answer in the book, so I worked it through but just came up with the same

I don't know, maybe it is just something that slipped past the copy readers.

Hi Bobby

Sorry for the delay, had to nip out to Chichester.

The book is Calculus - Concepts and Contexts, by James Stewart.

I got it about 10 yrs ago and have only just started using it

Anyway.. Back to the origianal problem.

I went through the 4 questions on MIF, thought cool and went back to my book
and came straight across this, I don't get the same answer and I ran it through
Maple and it gets the same answer I do, so I am stuck again.

find

I and Maple get

the book on the other hand gets

I don't know if there is any truth in it for definate, though I have read in the past that the documents have
an owner. I think it is to guard against people purposely making changes that are false. I suppose it makes
sense from that point of view, but not if the information they are putting up there is incorrect in the first place.

I must confess I cheated a bit and used a thesaurus

Hi Bobby

Very Cool, I was also glad of the page on Domains and Ranges. My book has info about this
though it does not mention Codomains.

It was great, until I was literally handing my passport over to the baggage handler when a woman leant over and wispered in her ear. She then said that all flights from Corsica to UK we cancelled for at least a week. There was a huge panic and a run on the airline desk. Luckily we have a house over there, so we just went home and had an extended holiday.

Took Emma to the beach everyday and made sand castles, and studied logarithms in the afternoons. Log fires in the evenings. Very nice

You off anywhere this year?

Hi Bobby

Thanks for that, I didn't know about the accuracy. That's handy to know and makes sense too, kind of like Amdahls's Law for functions, although none of my tutors have ever mentioned it.

Just shows you that you should always consult others rather than taking one persons word for it.