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Skywriting is cool, but it never goes far enough. The occasional JESUS SAVES or BOSE ROCKS appear above my city, but no-one seems to use it for serious stuff.
In the interest of improving the level of education of all, I propose that our education departments could run courses during lunch hours
and on weekends, spelling out concepts in skywriting.
Mondays could be spelling bees, with 'Desiccate' spelled and defined, followed by a short treatise on intransitive verbs or Latin roots.
Tuesday: Algebra
Wednesday: Chemistry
etc...
This is now much easier than it might have been in the past, with txtspk now becoming very popular.
The value of e
http://mathforum.or...math/faq/faq.e.html
Hope this helps [UnaBubba, Oct 03 2005]
The lowdown on E
http://www.ecstasy.org/qanda/index.html
FAQs page. More than you ever wanted to know. [UnaBubba, Oct 03 2005]
Euler's formula and other hits.
http://www.po28.dia.../maths/formulae.htm
If you didn't know e^(i * pi) = -1, you were probably thinking dbmag9 just made random variable salad. [jutta, Apr 10 2006]
Re: Mondays could be spelling bees
http://www.theonion.../content/node/54909
[jutta, Jan 07 2007]
[link]
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How can you do math in text speek? |
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Same as you do when there's no logical way to abbreviate something into txt... use longhand. |
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//How can you do math in text speek?// |
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Math is text speak. Maths is longhand. |
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Very elegant, but I'm afraid it means absolutely nothing to me - what's i? Is a dot the same as a times(x) and how much is an e? |
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//what's i?// "j" to an electronic engineer*
//how much is an e?// Well, that depends on who's asking, and how many you want - see me outside in five minutes. I'm the hyper, sweaty, emaciated guy with dilated pupils.
* You've just got to admire the EEs' hubris - rather than change their johnny-come-lately symbol for current, they change the long-established symbol for the square root of minus one. |
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the answer, my friend, is flying in the wind... |
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//I'm the hyper, sweaty, emaciated guy with dilated pupils.// Aww, gi's a hug mate! Anyone got any veras? |
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Perhaps a radio simulcast would help, especially for those who can't tell the difference between e and Es. [link] |
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A dot is the same as a times(x), e is around 2.71 (goes on forever, randomly) and i is the square root of -1. |
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e to the power of i times pi, plus 1, equals 0. |
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//A dot is the same as a times(x), e is around 2.71 (goes on forever, randomly)// Two times seventy-one is a hundred-and-forty-two. Doesn't go on forever. What nonsense. |
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They're irrational numbers; i.e., i, e, ... |
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//A dot is the same as a times(x), e is
around 2.71 (goes on forever,
randomly)
and i is the square root of -1.//
I think you phrased that wrong... |
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////A dot is the same as a times(x), e is
around 2.71 (goes on forever,
randomly)//
Two times seventy-one is a hundred-
and-
forty-two. Doesn't go on forever. What
nonsense.//
No, like pi. 2 decimal point
71828182845904523536... |
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Whee! Can I do Cosh i Pi in the sky, too? (Value: -1) |
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