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doyle ([personal profile] doyle) wrote2004-04-06 03:00 pm

Maths spam

So I'm sitting here doing my astrophysics homework - online since I have to use integrals.com to do the hard bits of the calculus for me (two maths A-Levels and I still don't know how to integrate xe^-x, sigh...)

Then I notice the site is run by Wolfram Research, so now I have images in my head of poor Angel sitting in his office looking with panic at his computer screen going "e? What the hell is e? Wesley!"

...I may have had too much coffee.

[identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Or Fred is trying out a new profit centre for her division;)

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Fred's lab gives me geekgasms. I'd watch a whole spinoff centred around Fred setting up her own research firm in the lab.

[identity profile] ludditerobot.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Great imagery. I know that he knows something about tech by "City of", but not higher-level stuff.

Wolfram is a weird outfit. They're the new way of science guys. But for what they do, there's nobody else. They're number one, slots 2-9 are blank, and there's something doing an open source thing at 10.T

I feel you, though. I took Computer Science and was doing math to fulfill that requirement until the summer before my last (fall) semester, when I should've been done by the end of sophomore year. Then I was a dumbass and took Graphics, which is all math.

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Is that a kickboxing robot on your icon or are you just pleased to see me? *g*

[identity profile] ludditerobot.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Sumo-wrestling robot, thank you very much, but I am glad to see you.

[identity profile] patrizia.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
lmao! fic?

[identity profile] deadmarshes.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
*spits juice out at screen*

LMAO! I could so see Angel doing that. I would pay good money to see Angel do that.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/lady_alatariel_/ 2004-04-06 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
HAHAHAHAHA
You should write a fic about it! And then Wes could make it all better because they could do it on his desk!

....I too may have had too much coffee

::goes to get more anyway::
Wheeeee

[identity profile] tablesex.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
LMFAO that NEEDS to be a fic! I remember in Maths when I used to shout "What the fuck is e???" in desperation. Aah, never have to take that class again!

[identity profile] leni-ba.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Angel and e's... together. *happy sigh* Two of my fav things ever...

How much do I need to beg to see this into a story?

because I love my e's even more than I ever could love Angel...

[identity profile] remember-nomore.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
haha!
that's so screaming to be made a fic!
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[identity profile] theantijoss.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
1.) ASTROPHYSICS? Seriously? Big brain.
2.) I don't know what "xe^-x" is, or how or why you'd want to integrate it?
3.) Hee. As well read and intelligent as Angel pretends to be is, I bet higher math is a problem.

*G*

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
1.) ASTROPHYSICS? Seriously? Big brain.

Hee! Yup, that's what my degree's in.

2.) I don't know what "xe^-x" is, or how or why you'd want to integrate it?

x (the variable you're integrating over) multiplied by the exponential of negative x. It's all to do with the solar source function (how much stuff comes off a star)

I love my course. It can make me pretend I'm smart...

3.) Hee. As well read and intelligent as Angel pretends to be is, I bet higher math is a problem.

Snerk. Oh, it so is. (But because I dearly love the boy, I'll admit that the scene - in She, is it? - where he talks about Baudelaire is one of my favourites. Smart boys are hot, even when they're occasionally just pretty and dumb.)

[identity profile] ludditerobot.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Give anyone photographic memory and lifetimes to read and experience things, and that person will be able to seem smart, but that won't help when there's math to do.

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
The sad thing is, I actually do enjoy maths. Especially beautiful calculus. I just need a book in front of me to tell me the integrals...
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[identity profile] theantijoss.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
x (the variable you're integrating over) multiplied by the exponential of negative x. It's all to do with the solar source function (how much stuff comes off a star)

*nods and smiles pleasantly*

Snerk. Oh, it so is. (But because I dearly love the boy, I'll admit that the scene - in She, is it? - where he talks about Baudelaire is one of my favourites. Smart boys are hot, even when they're occasionally just pretty and dumb.)

I used to think he was really intelligent as well. I mean... 250 years traveling, reading, experiencing... then after Epiphany, to find out his brain came spurting out of his dick...

Did I just say that out loud? *G*

And since then, we've gotten pop music and movie, and actor references with nothing more difficult to read than a newspaper.

*cries* I liked it when Angel was smart!

Smart is haaaaaawwwwwt. Not that dumb and pretty doesn't have its place in bed.

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! And didn't he used to be able to read a bunch of languages? I seem to remember French philosophy or something...
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[identity profile] theantijoss.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, way more than that! In the ring, I remember him speaking at least four languages, along with Korean in Parting Gifts.

I have an Angel Bible somewhere in my pigpen of an office. Lost since I chucked it across the room during Provider, I think. I figured -- Joss tossed his, why shouldn't I?

*G* Not to be bitter and snide or anything. I'm carrying a little resentment that they dumbed my favorite character down. ;)
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[identity profile] astridv.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Repeat after me: 'Provider Never Happened.' That's my version, and I'm sticking with it.
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[identity profile] theantijoss.livejournal.com 2004-04-09 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
What's a Pro...vi...der?

*G*

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-09 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
There is noooo Provider. Do I need to get out the memory-wiping flashy light thing *again*? *g*
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[identity profile] transtempts.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You're cute on too much coffee..

And yes, Fred has to have a little side project...or fifty

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Cough growingweedinthelab cough...
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[identity profile] transtempts.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
::snort::

Fred? Only for medicinal puposes..

::eyes you::

[identity profile] gobi-rex.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I second the fic requests above. It sounds like a marvelous set up.
Plus, there's not enough math in fanfic.
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[personal profile] owl 2004-04-06 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
O crap, I forgot about the assignments! I have my lab report to write as well. I thought I was so good when I started marking bits in books to reference this afternoon...

[identity profile] inyron.livejournal.com 2004-04-06 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi! This is OT, as it has nothing to do with Physics... but, um, do you happen to know where you can figure an ANOVA online? Or where I can go to find out?

[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2004-04-07 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Not got a clue, sorry :(