<p>That's intense Chaos, elementary school must've been a nightmare for you.</p>
<p>Yeah, this kid cracks me up :D</p>
<p>Actually, ChaosTheory is right. As long as you use a base_4 numbering system.... :)</p>
<p>I'm sure he is right... however I can't even understand the slightest part of what he's saying. I was lost after 2*3...</p>
<p>chaos, would you minf translating what you sed into english? hat are these theories you speak of and what is a logarithm? (im going to be taking precalc this year!) just curious.</p>
<p>Aaah yes, I forgot to convert to base 4!</p>
<p>Aieaieaie, I'm not even in High School yet. Much of that stuff are real concepts, however they have no certain relation in this problem.</p>
<p>A logarithm is basically the inverse of an equation in exponential form.
For example, 2 ^ 3 = 8, would be written as
log(base 2)(8) = 3.
The basic form for a logarithm is
log(base b)(x) = n.
The natural logarithm = log(e)(x), where e = euler's constant, approximately 2.71828. The most common way of deriving this number is
e = limit as n approaches 0, (1 + 1
) to the nth power. The common logarithm, log when written without a base, is usually implied as base 10. Hope that explains a little.</p>
<p>Aah, not enough time right now, I'll try again later ;)</p>
<p>tryin2Bcool, your Algebra 2 class didn't cover logs??</p>
<p>Mathematical Induction.. A classic tool for proving.</p>
<p>I love PHP (Pigeon Hole Principle). These stuffs are competely unrelated to SAT math or SATII math but yeah, math is great subject. Go ARML!</p>
<p>thecomisar: the math program at my school is the worst aspect of my school. </p>
<p>algebra I: 8th grade; we were super wild and the teacher could not control my class; i did pick up some important things though</p>
<p>algebra II: 9th; at first had trouble; got tutor; went from B+/A- average to A/A+ average and then went ahead some more got to vectors and a bit of parabolas (all i remember is that if a function is graphed the curve gets wider and the larger the whole number it gets closer and closer to the coordiante; is that right?); my class got up to imaginary numbers but no parabolas, logarithms, algorithms (neither did I nor my math ttor b/c the following summer we started working on geometry which i woul dbe taking in 10th)</p>
<p>geometry: ridiculous. we wasted one day b/c the teacher likes groundhog day so we ate chocolate and she read us a story about the greedy quadrilateral. for proofs, she filled in he entire proof except one line. and she told us the answers on the test. i pulled off an A in that class just by studying 5-10 minuted before each test. luckily, i learned with my math tutor to be challenged (not like im a whiz, but i do love to learn). </p>
<p>pre-calc: 11th dunno how this will turn out, was suppoed to have an awesome teacher but now i might not.</p>
<p>calc: 12th: supposedly this teacher is awful! she told a student (aka my friend) that shed be better off not doing the homework for class! :eek: if shes still there, im taking community college classes like my friend (another friend) is this year.</p>
<p>o how i love thy school!</p>
<p>Wow, that's really rough. I guess I've been pretty lucky so far, because aside from only two, all my math teachers have been pretty awesome throughout middle school & high school.</p>
<p>But it's really good that you're getting tutoring-- keep that up. You gotta get those math skills.</p>