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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:03 pm

this is official. I was going to write it in official leetspeak but that takes too long.

every forum needs a geek thread and we are all geeks here, right? (no nerds!!! we are geeks)

so, math, science, language, lit, history, music geeks... blab away in your area of specialty!

of course math geeks are better than the rest. blaugh

has anyone tried this month's AMS problems? i got #2 in less than 10 minutes and cant even understand the rest! xp

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:04 pm

um... i am allowed to start a new topic, right? sweatdrop

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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:24 am

blacksheepmails

um... i am allowed to start a new topic, right? sweatdrop

yes, yes you are neutral

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:21 am

um... zat iz gud...
hi...
i tend to be post whore for specific periods of time so ignore me if im being annoying. and im sure i am...

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:18 pm

blacksheepmails

um... zat iz gud...
hi...
i tend to be post whore for specific periods of time so ignore me if im being annoying. and im sure i am...

4rn´7 w3 411?
(that was hard sweatdrop )

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:22 pm

colonel mcmuffin

blacksheepmails

um... zat iz gud...
hi...
i tend to be post whore for specific periods of time so ignore me if im being annoying. and im sure i am...

4rn´7 w3 411?
(that was hard sweatdrop )

yup... i guess we all are...

so, for a start, solve this. i really need to go work on more mathy thingies but classes and the internship and gaia are eating away at my math life.

In the game of Incan basketball, a points are given for a free throw and b points are given for a
field goal, where a and b are positive integers. If a = 2 and b = 5, then it is not possible for a
team to score exactly 1 point. Nor is it possible to score exactly 3 points. Are there any other
unattainable scores? How many unattainable scores are there if a = 3 and b = 5? Is it true
for any choice of a and b that there are only finitely many unattainable scores? Suppose a and
b are unknown, but it is known that neither a nor b is equal to 2 and that there are exactly 65
unattainable scores. Can you determine a and b? Explain.

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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:07 pm

blacksheepmails

colonel mcmuffin

blacksheepmails

um... zat iz gud...
hi...
i tend to be post whore for specific periods of time so ignore me if im being annoying. and im sure i am...

4rn´7 w3 411?
(that was hard sweatdrop )

yup... i guess we all are...

so, for a start, solve this. i really need to go work on more mathy thingies but classes and the internship and gaia are eating away at my math life.

In the game of Incan basketball, a points are given for a free throw and b points are given for a
field goal, where a and b are positive integers. If a = 2 and b = 5, then it is not possible for a
team to score exactly 1 point. Nor is it possible to score exactly 3 points. Are there any other
unattainable scores? How many unattainable scores are there if a = 3 and b = 5? Is it true
for any choice of a and b that there are only finitely many unattainable scores? Suppose a and
b are unknown, but it is known that neither a nor b is equal to 2 and that there are exactly 65
unattainable scores. Can you determine a and b? Explain.

alright as for the first part
you can make all even numbers and all odd numbers past 3

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:10 pm

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How many unattainable scores are there if a = 3 and b = 5?

let´s see you can´t make 1, 2, 4, or 7
i think it´s fair play for anything past that

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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:16 pm

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Is it true for any choice of a and b that there are only finitely many unattainable scores?

no, you could have 3 and 6
and never be able to make any number that is not divisible by 3
therefore infinitely unattainable scores

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:20 pm

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Suppose a and b are unknown, but it is known that neither a nor b is equal to 2 and that there are exactly 65 unattainable scores. Can you determine a and b? Explain.

this last one is the tip of the spear, i doubt i can answer it right now

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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:32 pm

i feel like i should reply... with something real... but i dont feel like it. ive gotten zero hours of sleep in basically 3 days. last night, i was even sleeping on the floor of the house of a random guy that i dont even know. how did that happen? confused grr. "friends"...
so... hi... im hallucinating.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:38 am

right...
i give up, i can't think of any practical method of having at that last one
... i could try finding a pattern... but i don't feel like doing the work

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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:56 am

i got this cool bright eyes shirt
not only is it glow in the dark, but the tiny digits that make up the word "bright eyes" are pi

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:26 am

wow!
i used to like bright eyes.
now i love them.
saddle creek geeks.

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