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#51 2016-08-19 17:44:14

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Re: Geometric Series

bobbym wrote:

Hi;
1) As Elizabeth Stapel states, hyperbolas ( hyperboli ? ) are not often seen in problems. She is correct, this was my first time working on one of them.

hyperbolae ?


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#52 2016-08-19 23:18:12

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Re: Geometric Series

Hi;

Either hyperbolas or hyperbolae is correct.


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#53 2016-08-20 04:25:42

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Re: Geometric Series

We follow Queen's English. In my school and college days "formulas" was wrong. Only "formulae" was correct.


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#54 2016-08-20 06:06:46

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I probably felt that way when I was your age but I can not remember.


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#55 2016-08-20 17:59:59

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Re: Geometric Series

Hi bobbym,
You refer to my age when I was in school or when you will attain my current age.


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#56 2016-08-20 18:08:28

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Re: Geometric Series

Hmmm, I am 96 years old.


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#57 2016-08-20 18:14:55

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Re: Geometric Series

I am 6 dozen old or 3 scores and a dozen.


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#58 2016-08-20 18:20:11

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Re: Geometric Series

So, you are a young guy then.


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#59 2016-08-20 18:22:42

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You call me young and a baby 6 days old. Disgusting!!


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#60 2016-08-20 18:28:43

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Re: Geometric Series

A baby is a baby. Compared to me you are still a young man being a whopping 24 years younger than I am.


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#61 2016-08-20 19:29:53

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Re: Geometric Series

G.C.D. can not be whopping.


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#62 2016-08-20 19:58:07

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Re: Geometric Series

4! is whopping and so is  the largest number of Knights you can place on a chessboard such that none of them can capture any other using the standard chess Knight's moves. It takes exactly 24 knights.


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#63 2016-08-20 20:05:41

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Re: Geometric Series

24 knights is not even a month.


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#64 2016-08-21 02:14:42

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Re: Geometric Series

That is true but it is still a whopping group.

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#65 2016-09-03 00:18:01

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Re: Geometric Series

bobbym wrote:

Hmmm, I am 96 years old.

I doubt the veracity of this statement..


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#66 2016-09-03 00:31:20

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Re: Geometric Series

It could be 69.


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#67 2016-09-03 01:03:45

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Re: Geometric Series

Mathegocart wrote:

I doubt the veracity of this statement..

And why is that?

When I explained to the young anonimmystefy that I was younger than he was, that I was nine, he seemed unable to believe that. Of course that was many years ago and I would now be the same age as Mathegocart if that were true. So which is it? First, let me say that there are no records of my birth anywhere on this planet. My exact age, was known only to pappym and he is long since gone. mammym believed me to be a year or two older than what I think I am.

Here is a more colorful story of my early years:

http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=131525#p131525

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