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oh no no dave!! hehe . i am not dissing british engineering. Its one of the best out there. Its just sometimes they don't seem to have the knack for designing. But when they do get it right, its bloody mindblowing.

what makes you pick out addition over the other elementary binary operations like multiplication and division

i agree with u there hehe. sorry dave.

u suck

well, havent got a proof, its rather intiuitive. it works for integers greater than one. must be able to prove by induction somehow. about the series, the most i could do here is to check that the series does indeed converge. about the value, got no idea.

so would aston martin db9

u can get them for free, if u know where to look, i do.

i am quite unsure. was e discovered first as constant and then e^x being the same as diff e^x or was that condition forced to caculate the value of e

also the exponential function of e . i.e e^x has the special property that its gradient at a point is equal to the value of the function at that point. dont know if there are other functions with this property

e is just another real constant. its irrational and transcendental. it can be written as a series. sum from n=0 to inf of 1/n! also can be written as a limit e= lim (n tends to inf) (1+1/n)^n and lim (n tends to inf) (1+1/n)^(n+1) the graph below shows the two functions above and the constant value of e

yes yes i was wondering where u left

i hate happy endings. sad endings are more memorable. like when the hero is trying to disable a time bomb, and u see the counter going down. u expect the hero to save the day at 1 sec to go. but if the bomb just went off killing him and everyone round him, it would be so much better also in Armegaddon, the ending would be better if the asteroid hit the earth.

depends what space ur working in.

i loved that film.

I can't believe noone has mentioned "Once upon a time in America"(the unedited and uncut version") The direction is absolutely stunning. top notch cast. de niro plays his best in here. The dialogues are also amazing. the unedited version has a run time of almost 4 hours!! 2 full dvds. it starts off a lil bit slow, but once it gets into it , it really messes with ur mind. I really reccommend u get this film. as its one of the great classics. Also "Taxi driver" and "Reservoir Dogs" anyway GET "Once upon a time in america" rent it. buy it, whatever, JUST WATCH IT.

ill take a koenigsegg CCR anytime . Here are the specs. Performance Acceleration: 0-100 km/h (0–62 mph) 3.2 seconds Top speed: 395+ km/h (242+ mph) Standing quartermile: 9 seconds, end speed 235 km/h (146 mph) Braking distance: 31 m (100–0 km/h) Lateral g-force: 1.3 g Fuel consumption: Highway travel: 13 l/100 km Combined: 17 l/100 km Wheels Koenigsegg magnesium alloy wheels with centre locking. Front: 19” x 9.5” Rear: 20” x 12.5” Engine Type: V8 cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts. Cam cover of carbonfibre. Displacement: 4.700 cm3. Compression: 8.6:1 Weight: 215 kg Lubrication system: Dry sump with unique oil spray piston cooling. Oil cooler. Oil: SAE 5 W/30 fully synthetic racing. Oil tank capacity: 12 litres (2.64 gallons) Induction system: Sequential, multipoint fuel injection. Lysholm twin-screw supercharger with 1.2 bar boost pressure. Intercooler. Fuel: 98 RON unleaded. Ignition system: Direct coil on plug. Transistorised. Power output: 806 bhp at 6.900 rpm. Maximum torque: 920 Nm (678 ftlb) at 5.700 rpm. Maximum rpm: 7.600 rpm. taken from here http://www.koenigsegg.com/ . I once saw this car being reviewed in BBC Top Gear, and its a monster of a car. Its dry weight is only 1180kg!!

looks like freeman is a physicist

i assume that freeman is talking about a prime number generating function. "Legendre showed that there is no rational algebraic function which always gives primes. In 1752, Goldbach showed that no polynomial with integer coefficients can give a prime for all integer values" taken from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Prime-GeneratingPolynomial.html and if it works to 1000 then i am sure you can use mathematical induction somehow

meant least integer greater or equal than

here a_n should be equal to [edit][math][\log_{10}(2^n)][/math][/edit] where [] is denotes the least integer which is greater than

i would say the growth rate of a_n is about [math]log_{10}2[/math] i still havent studied how to calculate the sum.

to a canadian "Do u like clubbing?"

hope uve watched the undercover documentary about BNP tonight YT. i found it really appaling

obviously i meant that i used win98 se for three years and not ME. Altough ME DID bring some new stuff like system recovery.