Heh. It’s really not that hard…
—Zooey
TheZoo
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heh. It’s really not that hard…
—Zooey
TheZoo 
Well, maybe not to our Lady Z, but, this old witch only passed on fraction’s and flunked on spelling..Carry on bright one’s I am going to watch Grey’s Anatomy 3rd season disk 4….Painting did me in today and yesterday was way to fun….Tomorrow I am taking off to go to a rock and gem show….Blessings all.
My post didn’t work, my math beyond fraction’s doesn’t either..Like my spelling…..Oh well~ you all have fun any way…I’m gonna watch some season 3 of Grey’s Anatomy…..Blessings
Sorry about the double, waited 5 and re posted….Please forgive…..
A bit of humor:
http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=62200707019
Well, I ended up with (and I’ll spell it out)
a (to the -50 power) * b(to the -13 power) / (-8)
but my math skills may not be what they used to be. I should have used pencil and paper.
Gee Wayne, I ran out of fingers and toes.
Thanks, eggy. I bookmarked that site. It made me laugh.
That is funny eggy. Sad thing is the guy’s such a dimwit you can almost believe it’s true.
Here’s another silly article from that site:
http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=85200710009
I added a link to the site in our sidebar.
Close Wayne, but you forgot to make the exponentials positive. 🙂
1 over (or divided by)
-8 a(to the 50th power) b(to the 13th power)
Good try!
Why did you delete your answer, Egg?
I was just seeing if I could get the HTML superscript code to work. I couldn’t. 😦
Thanks. Maybe I wouldn’t have made that mistake if I wasn’t doing it in my head. But I did remember to invert some of it. Gotta go. Stargate is on. be back in an hour or so.
I’m going to get back to my latest genealogical project. I have an uncle who was in the Battle of the Bulge. He and his battalion are mentioned in several books and on many websites. I’m working on consolidating all of these diverse sources into one long piece. It’s going to take a long while.
Another person links to our site in a comment.
So this is where everyone is
Tip: Story you may want to look at, if you haven’t seen it.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Conyers_rebukes_Voting_Rights_official_over_1012.html
Hey all!
Just lettin people know that this week’s edition of Dance, You Fools! For This Is Club Toasterhead! is live and ready for your listening pleasureship.
This week we have selected a list of wicked superlative covers, from exotic locales such as Brazil, Mongolia, and North Jersey.
🙂 Yay!
Hi Toasterhead.
Hey Wolverine. Have you seen these articles? There is more to that story here:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004437.php
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004438.php
These guys are covering this pretty closely.
Camptown race’s five miles long…
… doo dah… doo dah…
Say… anybody here know jes’ exactly what in tarnation a “doo dah” actually is???
First y’all have ta tell us whar tarnation is.
Dunno… jes’ know me ‘n ma kin bin usin’ it ta express frustration ever since I were jes’ a cub…
… Tarnation may refer to: A colloquial synonym for damnation…
… as in the usage… “What in tarnation are ya askin’ me what ‘tarnation’ means?”
TRoS,
Have you turned in your math problem?
For some strange reason, I came up with:
1 / (-8*a^50*b^10)
I must have got rid of the wrong b’s at some point….
Gregor,
I’m impressed that you were that close.
I really can’t remember any longer what negative powers are. I mean, I can visualize what something is “squared,” but I don’t remember anymore what it is when it’s “negative squared.”
Humpf! Bears don’t do math problems…
We usually just get frustrated and end up eating the teacher. And if we’re in a really, really bad mood, half the class too…
Lemme see… 2b, or is that, not 2b… is that the question?
Waitaminut… does this have sumpin’ ta do w/ “Killer Bs”?
Negative squared results in a positve “number”…
Is this a complicated formula that results in “abba”?
Forty-two
“Abba ‘n Costello”???
Yabba dabba doo?
Naw… no “d” in the equation…
“I really can’t remember any longer what negative powers are.”
Republicans.
How can you come to an absolute numerical value when you don’t really know what “a” or “b” equals?
“Lemme see… 2b, or is that, not 2b… is that the question?”
Then there was John Phillip Sousa, inventor of the Sousaphone, who said, “tuba, or not tuba….what was the question?”
Or the wigmaker:
“Toupee or not toupee?”
How about “-8” ????
If either “a” or “b” = zero, then the answer to the equation is “Congress.”
Which has an “Absolut” value.
Shobee dobee, or not to shobee?
Egg….the same question arises after a sufficent # of beers.
“Absolut”??? Ooooh… now we’re gittin’ somewhere!
Gregor sez:
1 / (-8*a^50*b^10)
I must have got rid of the wrong b’s at some point….
I think you did I think you missed one negative sign.
“Shobee dobee, or not to shobee?”
speaking of a significant # of beers….
‘nite all…duty calls….
😉
TRoS sez:
How can you come to an absolute numerical value when you don’t really know what “a” or “b” equals?
Silly accountant, there is no absolute numerical value in solving this equation. 😀
BnF sez:
‘nite all…duty calls….
😉
What? Are you working the streets?
Or, as Princess Di used to say, “Dodi calls.”
Hint: Simplify it first, then do the rest.
I still think 42 was a good guess.
Gee Zooey you are strict, making us do math homework on Friday night. Does it have to be turned in before Monday morning?
Right… that’s what I thought.
No numerical answer here…
Careful, whilst you can call an accountant silly… polar bears tend to be a little more “sensitive”…
**sniff… sniff… grrrrrrowl… sniff… snifff**
No whining, Shayne! I had to do 80 of these. 😐
Hey polar bear, gotta Coke?
Yeah, but, but, but, did you have to do them on Friday night?
Hey TRoS, if you eat the teacher does that mean we don’t ever have to turn in the homework?
Zooey, I didn’t think you were into coke. I thought you were into math.
Oh c’mon! Which is worse: 80 of these on Monday & Tuesday, or one on Friday — which you haven’t done yet? 😀
Humpf… now, yer jes’ makin’ fun a me…
What is this… BTW… algebra? Differential calculus?? I always hated trigonometry…
My especiality, apart from huntin’ seals, was geometry. Probably why I was so good at 8 ball when I was playin’ on a regular basis. Makin’ my 3 rail bankshots and “phantom ball” combos ‘n all that cool stuff.
Shayne, the next bus has your name on it!
Yes big white bear, that is algebra. I frickin’ hate geometry. 😛
Hey TRoS, she called you big. She called you white. And she still wants me to do my homework. Are you going to eat her or what?
***sound of raspberries***
So we’re even… ’cause I hate algebra…
I got a math problem for ya…
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
And, no, the the answer is NOT a negative number…
Yes, Shayne… thinkin’ about it …
… tap… tap… thinkin’ about it…
You tryin’ yer best ta put me up ta this, Shayne???
Too late. I got eaten by a land shark this morning. 😉
What’s your beef with geometry Zooey? I sort of liked the whole proofs deal. . Oh and sorry about the whole shark problem
I really don’t like doing homework TRoS. Can you help me out here. Oh and don’t believe that whole land shark bit. Plenty of her left I believe.
Okay… I t’ink yer right, Shayne… I don’t believe the land shark bit either…
Sneakin’ up… sneakin’ up… sneakin’…
Pounce!!!!!
Zooey, Zooey? Are you there?
Did you get her o’ majestic bear?
Buuuurp! ‘Cuse me… got anyt’ing ta drink?
Sum’pin ta wash this down wi’t???
Hmmm… a little on the salty side…
What’s fer dessert?
Hmmm… actually, still a leetle hungry…
Oooh, Shayne… where did you go???
Oh TRoS, I’m waaaayyyy over here, making myself scarce. Way too far for a bear to go if he’s just a little hungry.
Waaaay over there?
Okay… don’t worry…
(sneakin… sneakin… sneakin…)
You guys are too funny. 😀
I told TRos that I was over there but I’m really over here … hey … what are you doing here?
dbadass,
Geometry makes no sense to my brain. Algebra is balanced and zen-like. Geometry makes me crazy. I have no spatial ability whatsoever. Last semester in Geology, my topographical maps were always upside down. The TA thought I was “special” until I told him I’m a Soc major. Heh.
Aha!!! Got’cha both!!!
POUNCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
POUNCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, someone forget to feed the bear?
Someone throw him a baby seal or somthin’
Why does a soc major need to take geometry? Stats seems more appropriate. First cool night here and I am freezing!!!
Hmmm…
A wolverine… a bit tougher than a baby seal, or Zooey ‘n Shayne, fer that matter…
Better be careful…
Too late with the baby seal, darn
There’s always room fer dessert!!!
Geez, I may hate myself in tha mornin’ fer eatin’ my friends… but right now, I jes’ feel full…
but right now, I jes’ feel full…
Cover yer mouth when you burp next time.
rude bear…..
dbadass,
In Idaho we’re required to take algebra and pre-caluculus/geometry, in order to take statistics. I can see the need for statistics, but this other stuff — no.
We’ve already had frosty mornings here! And a now flurry the other day. It was 50-something degrees, so I don’t get that one. Weird.
Damn, TRoS! Are you storing up for winter?
Well, geez, I’m a bear…
Bears don’t use napkins, or knives and forks, fer cryin’ out loud…
Like wolverines are all that perlite ‘n polished…
What are wolverines related to? Weasels and minks? Martens, fishers, otters? They are supposed to be exceedingly tough critters in the wild. I was walking around the town I live one night last summer and actually saw a ferret lopping around. Probably someone’s pet that escaped. (They’re illegal in the state…)
You could set an example for your bear friends. 😉
Whilst polar bears don’t hibernate, we do like to pack on a few extra ponds fer tha winter months…
Say… I’m havin’ a hard time seein’ ya clearly… would ya mind steppin’ a little closer so’s I kin be sure who’s I’m ea… talkin’ to…???
You already ate me! You can’t see me well cuz I’m a ghost now. Land sharks and bears are tough on a girl.
Whoa… yer repeatin’ on me…
Anybody got some Tums???
BTW… the land shark??? Was it a great white?
Jes’ askin’…
Well, am I ever stuffed.
T’anks fer havin’ me over fer dinner… hehehe…
Time ta go find a quiet corner ‘n sleep this one off.
One a ya musta bin drinkin’ earlier…
Heh. The land shark was wearing a kilt, so yeah, pretty damn white. 😉
You really know how to charm the ladies — I’m giving you gas. Gross!!
Lordy, I need to get to bed. Ghosts need their beauty rest too.
Goodnight, all. 🙂
Yes, but what’s the question?
Zooey, in my defense, my answer was actually correct also. To make my exponents positive would require putting them in the denominator with the -8, as in your answer. Just multiply my answer by (a^50 * b^13)/(a^50 * b^13) [which equals 1], and you’ll get the answer you gave. I don’t think they would have considered my answer wrong, especially since the original problem used negative exponents. 🙂
I happen to love algebra (and most math.)