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Cat Herder


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Euphie, are you responsible for this?  Your book cookin' is really getting extravagant...

Math Team Solves 248 - Dimensional Puzzle

I found the following statement from the article rather telling:
"To say what precisely it is is something even many mathematicians can't understand,"

Well, that is about the way I feel about calculus...

edited to try and remove the smiley face that was showing up in the article title link... that was strange



-- Edited by Cat Herder at 09:32, 2007-03-23

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Aww man...do you know how long it took me to come up with that one?




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We live in an amazing modern world. I'm certain they'll find some wonderful application for it to bless our lives.

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From what I read, there is no useful application in either science or math. It was simply a puzzle that some believed was impossible to solve. I think I'll stick with my Soduko.

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oohh...I'm a Sudoku addict....

I used to do those Logic Problems books, but once my mom bought me one that was a Math and Logic problems book, and that was my first introduction to Sudoku. I rejoiced when they put it in the school newspaper!  Now I can do the crossword and the sudoku during class!  ...I mean...as short little breaks from my intense study schedule...usually during lunch or some other necessary break...like walking home from school.

-- Edited by glumirk at 17:38, 2007-03-23

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What I love about Soduko is there is no guessing. You have to use logic and problem solving to figure it out. I remember when I first started I could barely do one of the easy ones. Now I usually only do the hard ones. For an adult like me it was like my brain had to be rewired and then it became much easier to solve the puzzles.

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I only do them now if there's money involved. Or a chance at some money.

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Really? There's someplace I can make money off Sudoku?

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Dude! Those books at the check-out! You finish the easy, medium and hard puzzles and go to this online place, put in your "code" (found in book- too long to memorize, usually) and give them the answers. And wait for the 1,000 bucks. That's how I found Sudoku in the first place.   Saw that -- WIN $1,000!!!  So I did the hard one first, cuz then they just got easier.

Still waiting for my 1,000 bucks.

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Well...but then...that's like just playing the lottery for $1000...if I hafta buy the book first. Lame. They should pay me.

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Well, it's not really like playing the lottery. I mean, you're working for your money, okay? You can't just put in whatever numbers, like your scratching off that silver stuff. Plus, if your memory's good enough, you don't have to buy the book.

Are you against the good ole' Church raffle, too??

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"working for your money" ? That's a bit of a stretch.

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bokbadok wrote:

"working for your money" ? That's a bit of a stretch.
Some of those Soduko puzzles are pretty tough!



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It's SU-DO-KU. 'Kay?

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I wasn't slamming the lottery exactly. I just meant that if I have to buy the book...they're not really paying me to do the sudoku. And, really, they should. 'Cause I'm like a Sudoku Ninja.

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Maybe I should start a Sudoku night for Enrichment?

No, no! I've got it! With your brains and my... well, whatever... We should start our own Sudoku lottery! You could make up the puzzles. Call it like, I don't know... Sudoku Ninja. And charge like a buck a chance. Everyone can afford that! And it's for our higher cause of being SAHMs!! Excellent!

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Cocobeem wrote:

It's SU-DO-KU. 'Kay?
Sorry, my automatic spell check that I use in my brain is on strike! biggrin



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my fiance's roommate calls it su-DORK-u...

however, it hasn't stopped us from those relaxing nights at the sudoku board trying to find harder puzzles!

p.s.  Euphie, how do you become a Sudoku Ninja?  I'm interested in anything Ninja (www.askaninja.com  total waste of time, but pretty funny sometimes)

-- Edited by glumirk at 23:45, 2007-03-28

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It helps if you say "Yah!" and "Waaaaa" when you fill in particularly key numbers.

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There's also online ninja schools. Google "ninja tech" for example.

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Once again a triumph of pure mathematicans. I wonder if the physicists and applied mathematicans will find a use for this. (They managed to do it with many aspects of topology developed by pure mathematicans looking for something without an application. smile)

I find group theory interesting.

And to think I could be doing stuff like this if I continue for a PHD in Pure Mathematics. I will have to be accepted into grad school first though, after I graduate after this semester. It will take awhile before I can take a class on Lie Groups though. biggrin

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What, they teach mathamiticians how to lie as a group in grad school? I thought that was limited to law school, and maybe to some extent business school with the countering lip service to "ethics"...



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Don't get me started Cat on the things they taught in business school that turned out to be a bunch of malarky!

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Well, how else are they supposed to train you for business? What better place to use all your malarky experience?

Yay for Malarky!

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Well then there is the psuedoscience of global warming. Now there is some real malarky.
(I love that word)

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Mahonri wrote:

Well then there is the psuedoscience of global warming. Now there is some real malarky.
(I love that word)

Wasn't the term invented in Mayberry?



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