Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
There is a field of maths that is named "Complex Number". It frightens everyone!
Why?
Is it really complex? This is the question everyone exposed to the name will ask.
Looking into it, a complex number is expressed simply as "a + ib".
It consists of two parts. The first part"a" is what we ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I often hear people impulsive saying "I hate Maths". Is it true that maths is so fearful that it make one hate it? Come to think about it, if one day there is no more things related to maths, what will our life be?
Going inside the elevator, you see buttons imprinted with ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
When we talk about Algebra, our mind recalls the basic operation of +, -, / and x , as well as the ( ) and = operators. Variables and numbers "fly" over the "= " symbol during maths solving. These are basic algebra we learn in elementary school. However, there is another ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Binary maths operations are similar to that of the Decimal number system that we are all familiar with. Decimal is of base 10, whereas Binary is base 2. Base 2 means there is only 2 states. It is either OFF or ON, or another way to put it 0 or 1.
This binary ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
There was once a person by the name of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German-born mathematician. In the late 1600s, he invented a unique number system consisting of only 1 and 0. It puzzled many people. Many did not know its usefulness. "What is the use of number in base 2?" they remarked.
However ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Roman numerals are written differently from the other number systems.
It represents number with letters (X, I, L, etc).
Example:
One = I
Two = II
Nine = IX
Twelve = XII
Twenty-two = XXII
However, in the current era of maths computation, we have chosen to use the Hindu-Arabic ways of number presentation. This is now the ...
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