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  1. math man

    ITT: We draw perfect circles.

    disgusting, 5 horrific circles, and one decent one, not good for you
  2. math man

    ITT: We draw perfect circles.

    lol you knew this was coming, but ill say 9th time is the charm:
  3. math man

    Pentagon versus Hexagon.

    Obviously americans think pentagon is better, as they name their defence centre after it. For me i dont give a toss, i get enough pleasure from each shape.
  4. math man

    HSC 2012 MX2 Marathon (archive)

    Re: 2012 HSC MX2 Marathon a better question would be to deduce the smallest positive root plus the smallest negative root is positve
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    HSC 2012 MX2 Marathon (archive)

    Re: 2012 HSC MX2 Marathon the third root lies between -1 and 0
  6. math man

    Mechanics Help!

    Yes that's what I was implying
  7. math man

    Cool Things.

    I really like Euler's product formula for riemann zeta function as it gives a relation between an infinite sum of numbers involving rational numbers expressed as a product involving all prime numbers, which i believe is pretty amazing.
  8. math man

    2008 Independent Ext2 last question

    the question only asked for one direction, so i didnt need to prove the other, but i said from the start his method is better
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    2008 Independent Ext2 last question

    no, cosine rule is not memorsing as we all have used that formula 200000... times, so it is apart of us, whereas that inequality i doubt we ever use
  10. math man

    2008 Independent Ext2 last question

    ^ true, but it requires to memorise an inequality which you have to prove and im not a fan of memorising
  11. math man

    2008 Independent Ext2 last question

    cause a,b,c >0 i equated coef's with LHS and RHS and got each as 0, or you can equate from 4th last line
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    2008 Independent Ext2 last question

    yeh i think that would be fine, a clever approach, here is cos rule method:
  13. math man

    4U Textbook Comparison

    sydney grammar is currently testing the beta version of the cambridge 4u book which is like the 3u book. So if all goes well the 3u version of cambridge should be coming to 4u soon, hopefully. I can only drool of extension 4u questions
  14. math man

    Integral Proof

    ahh my trial question, nice
  15. math man

    Circle Geometry.

    it took me under a minute cause i already did this diagram where i proved the triangle was isosceles, so i already had a starting point
  16. math man

    Circle Geometry.

    i found out that no one from the fort street krew could get this question out lol, and it took du over 20 mins to solve it...i guess there cohort isnt that strong.
  17. math man

    how much extra study is really needed for 4u?

    but when you get to uni and do adv maths, then you can study maths all the time
  18. math man

    how much extra study is really needed for 4u?

    if you think you will struggle just get tutoring by carrot or myself :P, then you will be more than fine.
  19. math man

    Fuckery in my trials

    there was an error in the 2001 paper i think it was, q7 the polynomial one, half state didnt find out, other half did, question was not taken out
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