by Anonymous on June 28th, 2009

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Are you good with math?

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by TonieMoral on August 23rd, 2011

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pretty damn good! my favorite is when a little number gets on top of a big number and they make lots of little numbers with a period in between.

see, told ya...
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  by Bornabrit on August 23rd, 2011
- Ha, very cute! =)
  
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  by Katrina333 on August 23rd, 2011
- Very...
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 24th, 2011
- Try having irrational little numbers.
  
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by Lucindaoffthecuff on August 23rd, 2011

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It's been a while since I studied it formally and all of my degrees are in English/the humanities, but I was always good at it. I use it fairly well in everyday situations, and I sometimes read books about mathematics for recreation. I adore geometry especially. My skills are a bt rusty, however.
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- I have a feeling your still really good at it .by How you speak of it:-) wished I was :-(
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 23rd, 2011
- Thanks. Maybe you have too many talents to fit another. :)
  
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  by Lucindaoffthecuff on August 23rd, 2011
- Aww thanks :-) that was nice of you to say...
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 24th, 2011
- What a nerd...I love it Walrus
  
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  by Outta-here on August 24th, 2011
- I'm a friendly, loving nerd, though, Walrus.
  
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  by Lucindaoffthecuff on August 25th, 2011
- You are a sweety
  
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by Mister_Bromyde on August 27th, 2011

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Terrible and that's why I am in the situation that I am in. Society ONLY values professions that use math.
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by Garrett_B5610 on August 25th, 2011

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I am excellent at it. My math skills earned me quick promotions and big salary increases at many jobs. At Black Diamond, I was told when I was hired that in six months my work would be reviewed and I'd receive a 10% raise in salary if it was satisfactory. What happened was I got a 25% raise in one month when the bosses saw what I could do. I was the office chief mathematician then, and everyone brought problems to me that they couldn't solve, including the chiefs themselves. Once, I set up a matrix to solve a problem, but I didn't have my books with me to find the determinent of it. My assistant was studying calculus at college, but he hadn't yet studied matrices, so I looked in his book for the solution, rather than going home for my books.
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- haha MB stop it, you crack me up-- hes good at math..thats great wish I was :-)
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 27th, 2011
- Why would anyone bother solving a matrix larger than a 3x3 by hand, when they could simply write a program to do it?
  
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  by Captain4876 on August 30th, 2011
- We didn't have big computers at that firm. I had a pocket computer by HP, and that was the only one in the office.
  
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  by Garrett_B5610 on September 1st, 2011
- This was 1973, and the IBM 1130 computer I used at a previous job filled a room. Engineering Associates just sent off problems to it and didn't have one. In 1979, I worked for Digicon that had one, and it was sensitive to temperature. In 1973, I could solve a matrix today and not wait for a reply by mail on it a few days later. Times change!
  
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by Outta-here on August 24th, 2011

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Very...got any differential equations for me.
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  by Bornabrit on August 24th, 2011
- Don't bother asking....I lied anyway...Einstein said it best: "God didn't invent Universe, He invented invented differential equations." They are the ones that are used to calculate how things change when other things change. Very complex. I had to take it in college. It was fascinating, but I have forgotten it all.
  
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by Katrina333 on August 23rd, 2011

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Funny thing...while in school I was never really good with numbers but, I ended up getting a job in a bank, I loved it so much and continually advanced in the yrs that I was employed, I ended up the Manager!! Ironic!! I have an incredible memory with numbers, don't ask me what someone's name is?
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- Can you teach me...:-)
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 23rd, 2011
- It'll come to you, if you enjoy what your doing it won't feel like work, that's the beauty with numbers there's always a solution to the problem.
  
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  by Katrina333 on August 23rd, 2011
- Great comeback...:-)
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 24th, 2011
- My pleasure doll!! Happy Wednesday to you!!
  
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by Marisa on August 23rd, 2011
Funny you should ask this because my hubby and I were discussing this just the other day.

He feels that anyone can be good at math and I said I guess I just don't want to be - because I am pretty bad!

It all depends if it's important to you and if you really want to learn it.

I can count to ten...:)
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- haha you sound like me..I can add and subtract..where is my calculater:-)
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 23rd, 2011
- LOL - where would we be without our calculators...I'm running out of fingers and toes! :)
  
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  by Marisa on August 24th, 2011
- I'm going to have to disagree with Hubby. Can he be a brain surgeon?
  
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  by Mister_Bromyde on August 27th, 2011
- His head is big enough! lol He is very intelligent...
  
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by HoboJoe on August 25th, 2011
Terrible. Thank you for calculators and computers. And Google.
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by Desiderata on August 23rd, 2011
I think I'm pretty decent. (although I hate geometry) While in class, I did great with A's and B's, but I wouldn't be so hot now with those same classes. For me, "If you don't use it, you lose." applies. If I were refreshed on formulas and the like, I'd be great again. :)
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- I dont think I ever had it ..haha:-)
  
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by Evie_E on August 27th, 2011
effing good
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by WarHorseLeBron on August 25th, 2011
Minored in math applications. I'm pretty good at math, but when I look at what some of the reknowned mathematicians put on paper today, it makes me look like a first grader.
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by Trident on August 23rd, 2011
I'm decent :)
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by GrammarFuhrer on August 23rd, 2011
Well, I'm good until you hit calculus, though I'm also a bit rough with geometry.
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- You sound like your good at math:-)
  
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by Nancy is really struggling right now... on September 14th, 2011
Rather good...
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by inokytoe3 on September 4th, 2011
yes+no=maybe!
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  I'll take it for myself, with your permission, of course.
  
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by frank_52 on August 27th, 2011
It depends on what kind of math, but generally I'd say pretty darn bad.
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by Neodarwinian49 on August 27th, 2011
Mediocre, at best.
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by Bornabrit on August 27th, 2011
anybody have a calculator? haha
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by Zack on August 27th, 2011
When I was a little kid, my dad use to hit me to teach me math. I've sucked at math all my life.
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- Well theres two things we have in common...I sucked at math and my Dad used to hit me..not just for math though ..for what ever..ass----
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 27th, 2011
- Same here - for 'whatev' because he was always drunk. :(
  
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by Czar_K on August 27th, 2011
I did 6 years of extra maths in High School, the I stopped liking it. (too many more interesting things in my life)
When my son was around 11, I picked it up again, infected him with the math virus in a most treacherous way, via fractals ( http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/full/ )
the Julia and Mandelbrot things: http://www.google.com/search?q=fractals&hl=en&safe=off&biw=960&bih=620&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=1flYTvmXIoGEOpj4sakM&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ and his first little computer.
We programmed the fractals in DOS1.0, then it took the computer a night to calculate and display them, thus he got a 8036 rather soon. After that I offered him the math book they used in the year above his. He read it like a Bible Belt kid discovering his first Playboy magazine.
Now he's a ph.dr. in math and physics.
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"La vie n'est bonne qu'à deux choses, découvrir les mathématiques et enseigner les mathématiques" [life is only good for two things, discovering mathematics and teaching them ~Siméon Poisson --French mathematician]
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- You sir, are a legend.
  
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- http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000100407/polls_roflmao_522_5638_909737_poll_xlarge.jpeg
  
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by hisdevotedservant on August 23rd, 2011
Horrible. In fact, when I took my college placement test, you couldn't use a calculator unless the calculator button on screen was highlighted (i took a touchscreen test), and so because of my lack of being able to use a calculator, I got a 38% on my math test. But apparently it was good enough to put me in Math 96, which is Introductory Algebra so...yeah.

One time I also failed a math class in my junior year, although that was the only class I ever failed. Stupid thing was...I failed it by 3%. I needed a 61% to pass...I got a 58%. I was so mad. But then I retook the class and got a C somehow.
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- whats Algebra :-) kidding you sound better than me
  
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  by Bornabrit on August 23rd, 2011
- I need a calculator to do 215 + 875. Lol.
  
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  by hisdevotedservant on August 23rd, 2011
- I don't get how some people can just spout off answers to amazingly hard questions like: what is the square root of 867,000. Are you kidding me? Some people are just freaky geniuses and they need to teach me their skills.
  
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  by hisdevotedservant on August 23rd, 2011
- Agreed! Math doesn't come easy to all of us - some just 'got what it takes'!
  
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  by Marisa on August 24th, 2011
- :) Agreed
  
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  by hisdevotedservant on August 24th, 2011
- haha square Rooot ??? I havent seen any of them In my garden...:-)
  
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by Dontfeedthefatass is the Commodity on August 23rd, 2011
Hopefully i'll be able to cram a ton of the garbage I mean fun formulas into my brain this semester.

I was good at math but disliked the structure of algebra. I'm forcing myself to do it now though in college.
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by angel1000 on August 23rd, 2011
Not the best, but better than a whole lot of people apparently. I scored way above most of the people on the govt tests. I would like to know how many of them failed. That way I could get an idea of the real numbers.
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- We failed because the standards (at least in my state) are unrealistic. Teachers don't even teach to the content of the test and we are one of the lowest scoring states in the country when it comes to math. I mean we're not at the bottom of the list, we're kinda toward the bottom middle but still...
  
  They make you retake it if you fail it...doesn't help. If you already failed something, retaking it is not productive. You'll just fail it again. That's what happened to me. (No it's not because I had a negative attitude, either. I acutally thought I was going to pass the test because most of the questions appeared to be easy). I failed by about 10 or 20 points. I was not a happy camper.
  
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by Fun1 on January 22nd, 2012
Only when it comes to my bank account.
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by Bornabrit on January 22nd, 2012
I used to be..now basic yes.
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by aiar on January 22nd, 2012
Excellent
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by Outta-here on January 22nd, 2012
I teach physics sweetie...I have to be...are you? I can't believe I am the first one to answer one of your questions.
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by Andy B has left AB on September 4th, 2011
When I was 12, I was the only one in my class to get 100% in my maths exam.
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by cutie-pie on September 4th, 2011
Honestly, I suck at Maths
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by Echo141 on August 29th, 2011
Honestly aside from the multiplication tables, division and just general everyday math - I remember jack all from school.
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by HEARTSTAR on August 27th, 2011
depends on what type of math
-equations better than most
- geometry not bad
- Graphing terrible
- formulas great at doing (still have 90% of the formulas memorized)
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by grey_specter75 on August 27th, 2011
i like pie(3.14), itz yummy
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by mala kolacica on August 25th, 2011
Not so great, unfortunately. lol Basic operations are fine. Calculus and stuff, forget it.
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by amanda on August 25th, 2011
not very good
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by Vashtar on August 25th, 2011
Numbers? No
Concepts? Yes
GEOMETRY!
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by tannie on June 28th, 2009
im OK, I guess
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by Nemesis on June 28th, 2009
"Crying"
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by red246 is having a go on June 28th, 2009
I read that question wrong - if it was 'Man' then oh yes but since it's math - I can do it, with a struggle.
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by Simply Salsa... on June 28th, 2009
I like to think so..... :D
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by randomguy on January 22nd, 2012
Yes, quite decent.
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by THENETWORKA on January 22nd, 2012
it depend on the topic.
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by A on January 22nd, 2012
Basic math, sure. More complicated math hurts my head and gives me headaches.
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by shelleyblue on January 22nd, 2012
No, I struggled with math throughout school.
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by NotSuspiciousAtAll on January 22nd, 2012
It's part of my job.
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by Arctico-The-Wolf Supports Leonard Peltier on January 22nd, 2012
I'm OK, but math is really boring to me...

Languages, art and music are more my style.
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by XT on January 22nd, 2012
Yep.
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by thatsJustme on January 22nd, 2012
I can add ,subtract, multiply and divide. I can balance checkbook and the household budget...and quite well . In school, math was the worst for me once we got past the basics.
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by jjpark on January 22nd, 2012
Yes.
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by Bootsiebaby on January 22nd, 2012
Reasonably good. I always passed my maths exams, although I never came top in it.
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by Zack on January 22nd, 2012
That is my weakest subject of all. When I was a kid, my dad use to help me with math, but the thing of it was that he would hit me anytime I would get a math problem wrong.
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