1. Off topic? rational and irrational
- Posted by rolf.schroeder at DESY.DE Feb 26, 2001
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MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET wrote: > > Unfortunately, I seriously doubt that US schools teach math well enough for > students to know the difference between rational and irrational numbers. > They did in my day (barely), but I'm 44 years old! > Hi Mike, you are still too jung to play with your age! I will become 60 soon and I'm unable to realize it. But concerning the situation of US school education: also in Germany the situation had become worse. But, today pupils are more 'equal' on a common lower level of knowledge. I thought in US the 'sputnik shock' should have changed something. Anyway, I hope at least, nobody feels suppressed asking questions here due to my remark concerning knowledge! have a nice day, Rolf
2. Re: Off topic? rational and irrational
- Posted by mtsreborn at yahoo.com Feb 26, 2001
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--- rolf.schroeder at DESY.DE wrote: > MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I seriously doubt that US schools > teach math well enough for > > students to know the difference between rational > and irrational numbers. > > They did in my day (barely), but I'm 44 years old! > > > Hi Mike, > you are still too jung to play with your age! > I will > become 60 soon and > I'm unable to realize it. Oh boy... Damn man, you shouldn't be coding! First Law Of Thermo Dynamics: A coder can only do his job for 10 years, after that, he is eighter dead, or insane. You'll get yourself killed trying to code at this age man... Besides, what ground-breaking programs could you write? A WWII simulation game? (no offense, just the way it is). > But concerning the > situation of US school > education: also in Germany the situation had become > worse. But, today > pupils are more 'equal' on a common lower level of > knowledge. I thought > in US the 'sputnik shock' should have changed > something. > > Anyway, I hope at least, nobody feels suppressed > asking questions here > due to my remark concerning knowledge! > > have a nice day, Rolf > Oh, you're from Germany... Ich bin ein kartoffel fresser (ie. I'm Belgian :p). Aboiut this whole school thing... Shool sucks, you don't need it. Ditch school and get yourself a compiler, you'll learn everything you need in life; math, grammer, logic, arts, etc. through coding. That's what I did. And look at me, I'm still the best coder in Europe. I might not think things through enough, but no one can beat my code. How many people know MTS? A couple of hundred thousand, to say the least. Famous people even know MTS, and wanna be like Mike. So kids, when you feel like statyin' in bed, do it, and forget about school. And when you do go, kick some guy's ass real hard, and become king of the school, so you can get others to do your work for you, and you can sleap on the schoolyard bench, like I did ;) Mike The Spike PS. J/K, don't try this at home; MTS is not human. He's an Alien from planet Spikulus, where Vampires come from.