Bet you’ve never had cause to use that…or have you…
Most of my mental 'rithmatic powers are taken up by things like 'If a toddler runs in one direction at X speed and his little ba**tard brother runs in the other direction at Y speed, how much trouble will I get in with their mum if one of them injures themselves?'
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The formula is S subscript X divided by X plus S subscript Y divided by Y = U. R. Fk.ed
In case you wanted to know. Shortened to UR Fked! Toddlers are very tiring and more than one spells trouble.
My solution with my nephew and later nephew with his younger sister was to not give a F after the first hour or two with them dumped on you!!!! Usually after an hour with my sister and mum hiding out in another part of the house with me being their only adult carer in the room I just fell asleep. I was shattered on a Friday afternoon off with a busy work week anyway and an hour of those two finished me off! Thank goodness they're teenagers and it's their parents getting the worst of that!Â
I don't get why people say they won't use maths outside of school. It's everywhere! It's like saying I don't need English because I won't use it after school. You talk in English if in the UK and you talk in maths even if you don't realise you're doing it. Percentage discounts, miles to destination, size of room for carpets, time to get to destination on a journey, etc. You're talking in maths.
Curmudgeonly because I've just checked the Premier Inn prices for a one-night stay in Oct. £59 pn 3 weeks ago, £65 pn last week and £90 now, all non-refundable. Breakfast for 2 at £19.50. My own flipping fault, should have booked at the £59 price. No other places in same area any cheaper.
What I hate about maths is that there's only one correct answer. Apart from the obvious exceptions needed to avoid death, close enough is good enough for me.Â
Our local sainsbury's provides ride on trolleys for people with disabilities. The trouble is, the drivers can only reach the bottom three shelves. Maybe they could provide those long grabbing things. But maybe they could cause a deadly avalanche of soup tinsÂ
What I hate about maths is that there's only one correct answer. Apart from the obvious exceptions needed to avoid death, close enough is good enough for me.Â
I am not sure that's correct. AIUI there's several areas of maths that involves close enough or there being no one correct answer.
Years ago my employer had membership of a trade body. It cost a sliding scale to join it based on number of employees and turnover. From my pov as a member of our company's technical department I got to order any papers I was interested in. Same with my colleagues. The head of department gave me a statistics paper on dealing seen outliers in a dataset. Basically a method to legitimise the removing of data points that didn't fit. There were a few such papers dealing with outliers, each would give different results. Both right and wrong I reckon. Interesting times and those papers I accessed was a nice perk of the job until they stopped membership.
Well there's areas of mathematics where it's not a question of being one correct answer but a best guess or estimation or probability. There's errors and other aspects I've got less than no idea about.
My point being maths is a language to explain everything, however like with English languagr you say something doesn't make it correct. If I say that day is light and night is dark with 95% confidence intervals. There's a 5% chance it's wrong. In fact it is wrong since you can get 24 hours of daylight and darkness at times of the year in certain places. Not a very good example I know but its quarter to 7 and I'm only one coffee in to the day. I'm half zombie still.Â
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In case you wanted to know. Shortened to UR Fked! Toddlers are very tiring and more than one spells trouble.
My solution with my nephew and later nephew with his younger sister was to not give a F after the first hour or two with them dumped on you!!!! Usually after an hour with my sister and mum hiding out in another part of the house with me being their only adult carer in the room I just fell asleep. I was shattered on a Friday afternoon off with a busy work week anyway and an hour of those two finished me off! Thank goodness they're teenagers and it's their parents getting the worst of that!Â
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Years ago my employer had membership of a trade body. It cost a sliding scale to join it based on number of employees and turnover. From my pov as a member of our company's technical department I got to order any papers I was interested in. Same with my colleagues. The head of department gave me a statistics paper on dealing seen outliers in a dataset. Basically a method to legitimise the removing of data points that didn't fit. There were a few such papers dealing with outliers, each would give different results. Both right and wrong I reckon. Interesting times and those papers I accessed was a nice perk of the job until they stopped membership.
Could you explain?
My point being maths is a language to explain everything, however like with English languagr you say something doesn't make it correct. If I say that day is light and night is dark with 95% confidence intervals. There's a 5% chance it's wrong. In fact it is wrong since you can get 24 hours of daylight and darkness at times of the year in certain places. Not a very good example I know but its quarter to 7 and I'm only one coffee in to the day. I'm half zombie still.Â