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When to find a partner to practice with?
At what point in your progress should you look for a partner to practice speaking with on skype?
For example, I am trying to learn French and I really need to work on speaking and listening, but I'm afraid that my vocabulary is too small to have entire conversations in French. I'd be fine with practising French/English with someone, but I'm worried I won't be able to speak with others yet. I am practising with tutors/teachers right on skype currently, and they usually have to explain a lot of things to me in English since it's still hard for me to understand spoken French. So at what point would you do a language exchange with a partner?
I just learned the alphabet in Arabic and I already have several Arabic language partners. I feel it is never to early. The people here are very nice and they will help you not only with the French you know, but they will also help you learn more French. And it's good that you have professionals to help you if there is something that your language partner can't explain.
Well, if you learn basic grammar, and learn the most frequently used words, maybe around 1000 words you should be able to have some basic conversation if slowly. Also, what can help is buy a "Travel phrases" book, like Berlitz or Lonely Planet. Then you can at least speak phrases from the book, which is arguably better than just vocab.
That's the same thing it happens to me and the most people (sorry for possible mistakes. I'm practicing my english).
In my country (Chile) a few people speak other language (include english), because of that it's too difficult to improve, even more speaking and listening skills.
When you can write and read the most important ideas, enough to not need to search many words in the dictionary, then you should start to have speaking conversations, with native speakers as much as possible.
I hope you are successful :)
To be honest, as soon as possible now days. I have had my feet in the pool for about a year now and the more i read, I have heard many people say that I should have been trying to speak and practice from day one. Sure we ALL will make mistakes, be shy and timid but that is part of learning. So the biggest question is if the other person is willing or what are their thoughts. But I think when you are ready, you just are.
I think the favorable point to choose a language partner to practice is totally determined by your DEMAND and his SUPPLY . For instance, if you do not have enough vocabulary to make sentences , you need a tutor to help you improve and master you vocabulary . Then after, you need to evaluate which way is more efficient and if your language partners can offer your demand. Once you find you can master your vocabulary on you own , to seek for a tutor can be later and vice versa . Language partner is very critical for your learning , but rather in most situation , you do not have too many choices for your partners . So , my suggestion is just take a look at what your partners can give you , decide you are going to ask your partners to help you . A personal tutor seems no such a problem as you can ask for your teachers anyway .
I definitely think that sooner is better. I know from experience that when you learn a language without speaking it you can get "stuck" on a pronunciation that you think is right but that's kind of weird. If you feel embarrassed or that it's too soon, just try listening to French podcasts or watching movies and tv-shows with english subtitles or French subtitles if you're feeling ambitious. That's what I did and I thinks it helps tremendously.
Above all, even though your vocabulary may be limited you can still speak with people who have a good grasp of English, it would be mutually beneficial.
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She definitely has the invitation thing down to a science. How about the whole party dress thing? She may need some work in that area. I suppose losing another 15 lbs and shopping in the 8-10 Ms. area wouldn't be such a bad idea.
While I hope most of that was tongue-in-cheek, somehow I doubt it. How pathetic.
And Bobblehead needs to learn to spell. "Seems"??? WTF.
How can one look anorexic and fat at the same time? Another Hollywood mystery!
someone please tell me why she is barefoot?!?!
That HAS to be a joke. Seriously. A scale at the door? Even Paris weighs more than a hundred. Oy.
#4 – Someone please tell me why she's BRALESS.
She matches the mentality of her fellow Americans. And they wonder why the world mocks them…
Who cares about this stupid girl? Put interresting things like paris in jail sniffing cocaine or lindsay throuing a molotov cocktail to the white house or britnispirs farting in your president face, thats mor interesting stupid burrito eaters! America sucks!
That is one fucked up looking, caucasian-esque Ethiopian.
She looks like a velociraptor in that first pic. And her attempt at being self-deprecating might work if she wasn't actually a shallow anorexic retard. Sarcasm really should be reserved for people who understand it.
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She has no idea what memorial day is for?! That is pathetic and she should be shot. Make her serve in a war
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#6 … When you dont have boobs its kinda pointless to wear a bra.
gee that dress would actually look nice on someone with quite a less prominant sternum and boobs that weren't so sad and droopy. haha and how dumb does mischa barton sound? she always did seem like a cocky bitch.
Ooh a scale. Hope they hand out cocaine at the door, too.
Who could possibly be proud of not knowing what Memorial Day really is?
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Some playing with Python
A long time ago, Diophantus (sort of) discussed integer solutions to the equation
(solutions to this equation are called Pythagorean triples).
Centuries later, in 1637, Fermat made a conjecture (now called Fermat's Last Theorem, not because he uttered it in his dying breath, but because it was the last one to be proved — in ~1995) that
has no positive integer solutions for . In other words, his conjecture was that none of the following equations has a solution:
… and so on. An nth power cannot be partitioned into two nth powers.
About a century later, Euler proved the case of Fermat's conjecture, but generalized it in a different direction: he conjectured in 1769 that an nth power cannot be partitioned into fewer than n nth powers, namely
has no solutions with . So his conjecture was that (among others) none of the following equations has a solution:
… and so on.
This conjecture stood for about two centuries, until abruptly it was found to be false, by Lander and Parkin who in 1966 simply did a direct search on the fastest (super)computer at the time, and found this counterexample:
(It is still one of only three examples known, according to Wikipedia.)
Now, how might you find this solution on a computer today?
In his wonderful (as always) post at bit-player, Brian Hayes showed the following code:
import itertools as it def four_fifths(n): '''Return smallest positive integers ((a,b,c,d),e) such that a^5 + b^5 + c^5 + d^5 = e^5; if no such tuple exists with e < n, return the string 'Failed'.''' fifths = [x**5 for x in range(n)] combos = it.combinations_with_replacement(range(1,n), 4) while True: try: cc = combos.next() cc_sum = sum([fifths[i] for i in cc]) if cc_sum in fifths: return(cc, fifths.index(cc_sum)) except StopIteration: return('Failed')
to which, if you add (say)
print four_fifths(150) and run it, it returns the correct answer fairly quickly: in about 47 seconds on my laptop.
if cc_sum in fifths: line inside the loop is an cost each time it's run, so with a simple improvement to the code (using a set instead) and rewriting it a bit, we can write the following full program:
import itertools def find_counterexample(n): fifth_powers = [x**5 for x in range(n)] fifth_powers_set = set(fifth_powers) for xs in itertools.combinations_with_replacement(range(1, n), 4): xs_sum = sum([fifth_powers[i] for i in xs]) if xs_sum in fifth_powers_set: return (xs, fifth_powers.index(xs_sum)) return 'Failed' print find_counterexample(150)
which finishes in about 8.5 seconds.
But there's something unsatisfying about this solution, which is that it assumes there's a solution with all four numbers on the LHS less than 150. After all, changing the function invocation to
find_counterexample(145) makes it run a second faster even, but how could we know to do without already knowing the solution? Besides, we don't have a fixed 8- or 10-second budget; what we'd really like is a program that keeps searching till it finds a solution or we abort it (or it runs out of memory or something), with no other fixed termination condition.
The above program used the given "n" as an upper bound to generate the combinations of 4 numbers; is there a way to generate all combinations when we don't know an upper bound on them?
Yes! One of the things I learned from Knuth volume 4 is that if you simply write down each combination in descending order and order them lexicographically, the combinations you get for each upper bound are a prefix of the list of the next bigger one, i.e., for any upper bound, all the combinations form a prefix of the same infinite list, which starts as follows (line breaks for clarity):
1111, 2111, 2211, 2221, 2222, 3111, 3211, 3221, 3222, 3311, 3321, 3322, 3331, 3332, 3333, 4111, ... ... 9541, 9542, 9543, 9544, 9551, ... 9555, 9611, ...
There doesn't seem to be a library function in Python to generate these though, so we can write our own. If we stare at the above list, we can figure out how to generate the next combination from a given one:
- Walk backwards from the end, till you reach the beginning or find an element that's less than the previous one.
- Increase that element, set all the following elements to 1s, and continue.
We could write, say, the following code for it:
def all_combinations(r): xs = [1] * r while True: yield xs for i in range(r - 1, 0, -1): if xs[i] < xs[i - 1]: break else: i = 0 xs[i] += 1 xs[i + 1:] = [1] * (r - i - 1)
else block on a
for loop is an interesting Python feature: it is executed if the loop wasn't terminated with
break.) We could even hard-code the
r=4 case, as we'll see later below.
For testing whether a given number is a fifth power, we can no longer simply lookup in a fixed precomputed set. We can do a binary search instead:
def is_fifth_power(n): assert n > 0 lo = 0 hi = n # Invariant: lo^5 < n <= hi^5 while hi - lo > 1: mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2 if mid ** 5 < n: lo = mid else: hi = mid return hi ** 5 == n
but it turns out that this is slower than one based on looking up in a growing set (as below).
Putting everything together, we can write the following (very C-like) code:
largest_known_fifth_power = (0, 0) known_fifth_powers = set() def is_fifth_power(n): global largest_known_fifth_power while n > largest_known_fifth_power[0]: m = largest_known_fifth_power[1] + 1 m5 = m ** 5 largest_known_fifth_power = (m5, m) known_fifth_powers.add(m5) return n in known_fifth_powers def fournums_with_replacement(): (x0, x1, x2, x3) = (1, 1, 1, 1) while True: yield (x0, x1, x2, x3) if x3 < x2: x3 += 1 continue x3 = 1 if x2 < x1: x2 += 1 continue x2 = 1 if x1 < x0: x1 += 1 continue x1 = 1 x0 += 1 continue if __name__ == '__main__': tried = 0 for get in fournums_with_replacement(): tried += 1 if (tried % 1000000 == 0): print tried, 'Trying:', get rhs = get[0]**5 + get[1]**5 + get[2]**5 + get[3]**5 if is_fifth_power(rhs): print 'Found:', get, rhs break
which is both longer and slower (takes about 20 seconds) than the original program, but at least we have the satisfaction that it doesn't depend on any externally known upper bound.
I originally started writing this post because I wanted to describe some experiments I did with profiling, but it's late and I'm sleepy so I'll just mention it.
python -m cProfile euler_conjecture.py
will print relevant output in the terminal:
26916504 function calls in 26.991 seconds Ordered by: standard name ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function) 1 18.555 18.555 26.991 26.991 euler_conjecture.py:1() 13458164 4.145 0.000 4.145 0.000 euler_conjecture.py:12(fournums_with_replacement) 13458163 4.292 0.000 4.292 0.000 euler_conjecture.py:3(is_fifth_power) 175 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'add' of 'set' objects} 1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
Another way to view the same thing is to write the profile output to a file and read it with
python -m cProfile -o euler_profile.out euler_conjecture.py cprofilev euler_profile.out
and visit http://localhost:4000 to view it.
Of course, simply translating this code to C++ makes it run much faster:
#include <array> #include <iostream> #include <map> #include <utility> typedef long long Int; constexpr Int fifth_power(Int x) { return x * x * x * x * x; } std::map<Int, int> known_fifth_powers = {{0, 0}}; bool is_fifth_power(Int n) { while (n > known_fifth_powers.rbegin()->first) { int m = known_fifth_powers.rbegin()->second + 1; known_fifth_powers[fifth_power(m)] = m; } return known_fifth_powers.count(n); } std::array<Int, 4> four_nums() { static std::array<Int, 4> x = {1, 1, 1, 0}; int i = 3; while (i > 0 && x[i] == x[i - 1]) --i; x[i] += 1; while (++i < 4) x[i] = 1; return x; } std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, std::array<Int, 4> x) { os << "(" << x[0] << ", " << x[1] << ", " << x[2] << ", " << x[3] << ")"; return os; } int main() { while (true) { std::array<Int, 4> get = four_nums(); Int rhs = fifth_power(get[0]) + fifth_power(get[1]) + fifth_power(get[2]) + fifth_power(get[3]); if (is_fifth_power(rhs)) { std::cout << "Found: " << get << " " << known_fifth_powers[rhs] << std::endl; break; } } }
clang++ -std=c++11 euler_conjecture.cc && time ./a.out
runs in 2.43s, or 0.36s if compiled with -O2.
But I don't have a satisfactory answer to how to make our Python program which takes 20 seconds as fast as the 8.5-second known-upper-bound version.
Edit [2015-05-08]: I wrote some benchmarking code to compare all the different "combination" functions.
import itertools # Copied from the Python documentation def itertools_equivalent(iterable, r): pool = tuple(iterable) n = len(pool) if not n and r: return indices = [0] * r yield tuple(pool[i] for i in indices) while True: for i in reversed(range(r)): if indices[i] != n - 1: break else: return indices[i:] = [indices[i] + 1] * (r - i) yield tuple(pool[i] for i in indices) # Above function, specialized to first argument being range(1, n) def itertools_equivalent_specialized(n, r): indices = [1] * r yield indices while True: for i in reversed(range(r)): if indices[i] != n - 1: break else: return indices[i:] = [indices[i] + 1] * (r - i) yield indices # Function to generate all combinations of 4 elements def all_combinations_pythonic(r): xs = [1] * r while True: yield xs for i in range(r - 1, 0, -1): if xs[i] < xs[i - 1]: break else: i = 0 xs[i] += 1 xs[i + 1:] = [1] * (r - i - 1) # Above function, written in a more explicit C-like way def all_combinations_clike(r): xs = [1] * r while True: yield xs i = r - 1 while i > 0 and xs[i] == xs[i - 1]: i -= 1 xs[i] += 1 while i < r - 1: i += 1 xs[i] = 1 # Above two functions, specialized to r = 4, using tuple over list. def fournums(): (x0, x1, x2, x3) = (1, 1, 1, 1) while True: yield (x0, x1, x2, x3) if x3 < x2: x3 += 1 continue x3 = 1 if x2 < x1: x2 += 1 continue x2 = 1 if x1 < x0: x1 += 1 continue x1 = 1 x0 += 1 continue # Benchmarks for all functions defined above (and the library function) def benchmark_itertools(n): for xs in itertools.combinations_with_replacement(range(1, n), 4): if xs[0] >= n: break def benchmark_itertools_try(n): combinations = itertools.combinations_with_replacement(range(1, n), 4) while True: try: xs = combinations.next() if xs[0] >= n: break except StopIteration: return def benchmark_itertools_equivalent(n): for xs in itertools_equivalent(range(1, n), 4): if xs[0] >= n: break def benchmark_itertools_equivalent_specialized(n): for xs in itertools_equivalent_specialized(n, 4): if xs[0] >= n: break def benchmark_all_combinations_pythonic(n): for xs in all_combinations_pythonic(4): if xs[0] >= n: break def benchmark_all_combinations_clike(n): for xs in all_combinations_clike(4): if xs[0] >= n: break def benchmark_fournums(n): for xs in fournums(): if xs[0] >= n: break if __name__ == '__main__': benchmark_itertools(150) benchmark_itertools_try(150) benchmark_itertools_equivalent(150) benchmark_itertools_equivalent_specialized(150) benchmark_all_combinations_pythonic(150) benchmark_all_combinations_clike(150) benchmark_fournums(150)
As you can see, I chose inside the benchmarking function the same statement that would cause
all_combinations to terminate, and have no effect for the other combination functions.
When run with
python -m cProfile benchmark_combinations.py
the results include:
2.817 benchmark_combinations.py:80(benchmark_itertools) 8.583 benchmark_combinations.py:84(benchmark_itertools_try) 126.980 benchmark_combinations.py:93(benchmark_itertools_equivalent) 46.635 benchmark_combinations.py:97(benchmark_itertools_equivalent_specialized) 44.032 benchmark_combinations.py:101(benchmark_all_combinations_pythonic) 18.049 benchmark_combinations.py:105(benchmark_all_combinations_clike) 10.923 benchmark_combinations.py:109(benchmark_fournums)
- Calling
itertools.combinations_with_replacementis by far the fastest, taking about 2.7 seconds. It turns out that it's written in C, so this would be hard to beat. (Still, writing it in a
tryblock is seriously bad.)
- The "equivalent" Python code from the itertools documentation (
benchmark_itertools_combinations_with_replacment) is about 50x slower.
- Gets slightly better when specialized to numbers.
- Simply generating all combinations without an upper bound is actually faster.
- It can be made even faster by writing it in a more C-like way.
- The tuples version with the loop unrolled manually is rather fast when seen in this light, less than 4x slower than the library version.
Colliding balls approximate pi
Found via G+, a new physical experiment that approximates , like Buffon's needle problem: The Pi Machine.
Roughly, the amazing discovery of Gregory Galperin is this: When a ball of mass collides with one of ball , propelling it towards a wall, the number of collisions (assuming standard physics idealisms) is , so by taking , we can get the first digits of . Note that this number of collisions is an entirely determinstic quantity; there's no probability is involved!
Here's a video demonstrating the fact for (the blue ball is the heavier one):
The NYT post says how this discovery came about:
Dr. Galperin's approach was also geometric but very different (using an unfolding geodesic), building on prior related insights. Dr. Galperin, who studied under well-known Russian mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov, had recently written (with Yakov Sinai) extensively on ball collisions, realized just before a talk in 1995 that a plot of the ball positions of a pair of colliding balls could be used to determine pi. (When he mentioned this insight in the talk, no one in the audience believed him.) This finding was ultimately published as "Playing Pool With Pi" in a 2003 issue of Regular and Chaotic Dynamics.
The paper, Playing Pool With π (The number π from a billiard point of view) is very readable. The post has, despite a "solution" section, essentially no explanation, but the two comments by Dave in the comments section explain it clearly. And a reader sent in a cleaned-up version of that too: here, by Benjamin Wearn who teaches physics at Fieldston School.
Now someone needs to make a simulation / animation graphing the two balls in phase space of momentum. :-)
I'd done something a while ago, to illustrate The Orbit of the Moon around the Sun is Convex!, here. Probably need to re-learn all that JavaScript stuff, to make one for this. Leaving this post here as a placeholder.
Or maybe someone has done it already?
Prefatory apprehension
Robert Recorde's 1557 book is noted for being the first to introduce the equals sign =, and is titled:
The Whetstone of Witte: whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmeteke: containing the extraction of rootes; the cossike practise, with the rule of equation; and the workes of Surde Nombers.
Its title page (see http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasures-robert-recordes-whetstone-of-witte, see also the full book at https://archive.org/stream/TheWhetstoneOfWitte#page/n0/mode/2up) contains this verse:
Original spelling
Though many ſtones doe beare greate price,
The grounde of artes did brede this ſtone:
Modern spelling
Though many stones do bear great price,
The ground of arts did breed this stone;
Apparently the full title contains a pun (see http://www.pballew.net/arithm17.html): "the cossike practise" in the title refers to algebra, as the Latin cosa apparently meaning "a thing" was used to stand for an unknown, abbreviated to cos — but the Latin word cos itself means a grindstone.
The author again reminds readers not to blame his book, at the end of his preface:
To the curiouſe ſcanner.
If you ought finde, as ſome men maie,
But if you mende not that you blame,
Authors are either anxious about how their book is received, or make sure to be pointedly uncaring.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in a mostly forgettable volume of poetry (Songs of the Road, 1911), begins:
If it were not for the hillocks
You'd think little of the hills;
The rivers would seem tiny
If it were not for the rills.
If you never saw the brushwood
You would under-rate the trees;
And so you see the purpose
Of such little rhymes as these.
Kālidāsa of course begins his Raghuvaṃśa with a grand disclaimer:
kva sūryaprabhavo vaṃśaḥ kva cālpaviṣayā matiḥ /
titīrṣur dustaram mohād uḍupenāsmi sāgaram // Ragh_1.2 //
mandaḥ kaviyaśaḥ prārthī gamiṣyāmy upahāsyatām /
prāṃśulabhye phale lobhād udbāhur iva vāmanaḥ // Ragh_1.3 //
atha vā kṛtavāgdvāre vaṃśe 'smin pūrvasūribhiḥ /
maṇau vajrasamutkīrṇe sūtrasyevāsti me gatiḥ // Ragh_1.4 //
But the most nonchalant I've seen, thanks to Dr. Ganesh, is this gīti by Śrīkṛṣṇa Brahmatantra Yatīndra of the Parakāla Maṭha, Mysore:
nindatu vā nandatu vā
mandamanīṣā niśamya kṛtim etām
harṣaṃ vā marṣaṃ vā
sarṣapamātram api naiva vindema
Screw you guys. :-)
Big O() notation: a couple of sources
This post contains, just for future reference, a couple of primary sources relevant to the ("Big O") notation:
- Some introductory words from Asymptotic Methods in Analysis by de Bruijn
- An letter from Donald Knuth on an approach to teaching calculus using this notation.
Visualizing product of permutations
A simple pedagogical trick that may come in handy: represent a permutation using arrows (curved lines) from to for each . Then, the product of two permutations can be represented by just putting the two corresponding figures (sets of arrows) one below the other, and following the arrows.
The figure is from an article called Symmetries by Alain Connes, found via the Wikipedia article on Morley's trisector theorem (something entirely unrelated to permutations, but the article covers both of them and more).
I'm thinking how one might write a program to actually draw these: if we decide that the "height" of the figure is some , then each arrow needs to go from some to (using here the usual screen convention of coordinate increasing from left to right, and coordinate increasing from top to bottom). Further, each curve needs to have vertical slope at its two endpoints, so that successive curves can line up smoothly. The constraint on starting point, ending point, and directions at the endpoints defines almost a quadratic Bezier curve, except that here the two directions are parallel. So it's somewhere between a quadratic and the (usual) cubic Bezier curve, which is given by the start point, end point, and derivatives at the start and end point. (Here we only care about the direction of the derivative; we can pick some arbitrary magnitude to fix the curve: the larger we pick, the more smooth it will look at the ends, at the cost of smoothness in the interior.)
Even knowing the curve, how do we generate an image?
The idea of logarithms, and the first appearance of e
[Incomplete post: about 10% written, about 90% left.]
The notion of the number , the exponential function , and logarithms are often conceptual stumbling blocks even to someone who has an otherwise solid understanding of middle-school mathematics.
Just what is the number ? How was it first calculated / where did it first turn up? Premature exposure to its numerical value
only serves to deepen the mysteriousness and to make it seem arbitrary.
Here a historical perspective helps: as is often the case, here too, the first appearance is simpler and more well-motivated than the accounts in dry textbooks. This is from this account by Matthew P. Wiener (originally posted on USENET somewhere, as quoted by MJD). I'm just going to quote it directly for now, and edit it later:
Napier, who invented logarithms, more or less worked out a table of logarithms to base , as follows:0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 ...
The arithmetic progression in the first row is matched by a geometric progression in the second row. If, by any luck, you happen to wish to multiply 16 by 32, that just happen to be in the bottom row, you can look up their "logs" in the first row and add 4+5 to get 9 and then conclude 16·32=512.
For most practical purposes, this is useless. Napier realized that what one needs to multiply in general is for a base—the intermediate values will be much more extensive. For example, with base 1.01, we get:0 1.00 1 1.01 2 1.02 3 1.03 4 1.04 5 1.05 6 1.06 7 1.07 8 1.08 9 1.09 10 1.10 11 1.12 12 1.13 13 1.14 14 1.15 15 1.16 16 1.17 17 1.18 18 1.20 19 1.21 20 1.22 21 1.23 22 1.24 23 1.26 24 1.27 25 1.28 26 1.30 27 1.31 28 1.32 29 1.33 30 1.35 31 1.36 32 1.37 33 1.39 34 1.40 35 1.42 [...] 50 1.64 51 1.66 52 1.68 53 1.69 54 1.71 55 1.73 [...] 94 2.55 95 2.57 96 2.60 97 2.63 98 2.65 99 2.68 100 2.70 101 2.73 102 2.76 103 2.79 104 2.81 105 2.84 [...]
So if you need to multiply 1.27 by 1.33, say, just look up their logs, in this case, 24 and 29, add them, and get 53, so 1.27·1.33=1.69. For two/three digit arithmetic, the table only needs entries up to 9.99.
Note that is almost there, as the antilogarithm of 100. The natural logarithm of a number can be read off from the above table, as just [approximately] the corresponding exponent.
What Napier actually did was work with base .9999999. He spent 20 years computing powers of .9999999 by hand, producing a grand version of the above. That's it. No deep understanding of anything, no calculus, and pops up anyway—in Napier's case, was the 10 millionth entry. (To be pedantic, Napier did not actually use decimal points, that being a new fangled notion at the time.)
Later, in his historic meeting with Briggs, two changes were made. A switch to a base was made, so that logarithms would scale in the same direction as the numbers, and the spacing on the logarithm sides was chosen so that . These two changes were, in effect, just division by .
In other words, made its first appearance rather implicitly.
(I had earlier read a book on Napier and come to the same information though a lot less clearly, here.)
I had started writing a series of posts leading up to an understanding of the exponential function (here, here, here), but it seems to have got abandoned. Consider this one a contribution to that series.
The functional equation f(x+y) = f(x)f(y)
Suppose satisfies . What can we say about ?
Putting gives
which can happen if either or . Note that the function which is identically zero satisfies the functional equation. If is not this function, i.e., if for at least one value of , then plugging that value of (say ) into the equation gives . Also, for any , the equation forces as well. Further, so for all .
Next, putting gives , and by induction . Putting in place of in this gives which means (note we're using here). And again, . So , which completely defines the function at rational points.
[As , it can be written as for some constant , which gives for rational .]
To extend this function to irrational numbers, we need some further assumptions on , such as continuity. It turns out that being continuous at any point is enough (and implies the function is everywhere): note that . Even being Lebesgue-integrable/measurable will do.
Else, there are discontinuous functions satisfying the functional equation. (Basically, we can define the value of the function separately on each "independent" part. That is, define the equivalence class where and are related if for rationals and , pick a representative for each class using the axiom of choice (this is something like picking a basis for , which corresponds to the equivalence class defined by the relation ), define the value of the function independently for each representative, and this fixes the value of on . See this article for more details.)
To step back a bit: what the functional equation says is that is a homorphism from , the additive group of real numbers, to , the multiplicative monoid of real numbers. If is not the trivial identically-zero function, then (as we saw above) is in fact a homomorphism from , the additive group of real numbers, to , the multiplicative group of positive real numbers. What we proved is that the exponential functions are precisely all such functions that are nice (nice here meaning either measurable or continuous at least one point). (Note that this set includes the trivial homomorphism corresponding to : the function identically everywhere. If is not this trivial map, then it is in fact an isomorphism.)
Edit [2013-10-11]: See also Overview of basic facts about Cauchy functional equation.


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yeah, know of a few. No problems with the births, but one was 5 weeks early & needed to take the babies in for respiratory support for a little while after they birthed. They had a UP & had no idea it was twins. She took a bath to settle her "irritable uterus", out pops a butt. She was still sitting in the tub, nursing the baby when she thought placenta was coming, but it was the head of the 2nd baby! Another couple had had some very fast labors (12 minutes was the fastest!), so just thought no need to hire a midwife, as they were pretty sure they would end up birthing alone anyway. They suspected twins, but never had an US to prove it. They were right, 2 babies in 20 minutes! One had trouble nursing, so she called for some advice, and everything was fine. Lately in 2 sets of twins, one of each pair had tongue tie, one clipped it right way, the other went to a doc, who couldn't tell it was a posterior tt. She ended up formula feeding the tt baby & breastfeeding the other one. :(
Have you been tracking fundal height? A singleton usually grows about one cm a week, twins 1 1/2 to 2 cm a wk.
Is he consistently hearing 2 heartbeats? are they in different quadrants, with different rates? The clincher is to have 2 people listening at the same time, ticking off beats with their fingers, while you watch both their fingers to see if they are in sinc or not, if not you are pretty sure there are 2, but even if the are in sinc, there may be 2, but probably not.


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Funny Things BD/Sperm Donors say
"Does he wear pampers or diapers?"
Your turn.
BD: I don't want to have to fork out the money if she needs braces.
- Heaven forbid you should ever pay for anything your child needs.
(After we split up in 2009, 2010 tax season he gave me $500 and said if I needed more, let him know)
ME: "Hey, remember you told me if I needed more money to let you know?"
BD: "I gave you $500 a month ago, where the hell did it go?"
- Well gee, IDK, she is a year old. She needs diapers, food, clothes, gas to get her back and forth to her appointments (mind you she went every day for a week straight after she turned one), medicine, birthday party (her bday is 02/17), groceries, etc.
"How come he still wears daipers, you should potty train him?" Cause he's 8 months old, idiot.
"Why cant he sit?" "He doesn't do anything.". No sit Sherlock, he's a month old.
Him: "When I have her I provide for her .. When you have her you provide for her"
Me: "Ummmmmmm you only have 9 hrs out of a week with me there" 0_o
What a dumb ass...
Me not being in the kid's lives doesnt affect them at all. Theyre fine. Yeah.....ok.


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YOUNGSTOWN — The city will spend about $500,000 to buy an acoustic gunshot location system that will help police pinpoint where shots are fired.
The city Board of Control approved a plan Thursday to spend up to $530,000 to buy the system from ShotSpotter Inc. of Mountain View, CA.
City council approved the purchase Dec. 16.
For more on this story, see Friday's Vindicator or vindy.com
I believe they get calls now from citizens telling thwm where shots are fired. That is not the problem. Who fired them is the problem and where are they now? Just a waste of tax dollars in my mind.
They do all the time don't they?
The devices will tell the cops that a gun was fired (or a firecracker went off, or a car backfired, and so on), but unless the cops are right around the corner, the shooter will be long gone by the time the cops do get there, and nobody will have seen a thing.
Can they be linked to a series of cameras that will take pics of shooters as well? Maybe we can find another 1/2 million for cameras.
Money could be better spent hiring more police.The device may tell where the shots are fired at but you have to have the police to respond and Is the shooter going to hang around until the police show up?
A true waste of taxpayer money. So, you heard a bang, now what are you going to do?
I beleive spending that half-million on police patrols would have been a far better value.
They don't come out now when the gunshot locations are called in . What's to say that they wont ignore the gunshot location system .
Actually a nice system and deployed in 46 counties/cities including a few FBI locations.
I don't believe the Youngstown has enough resources to chase down all of the gunshots that occur every night .
I had a cop tell me this was a waste of money. By the time a police officer can get to the site, the shooters are gone. Shots fired are not high on the priority list.
Another bad call, council.
Now the new game will be, "lets set off firecrackers and see how long it takes for cops to show up" Once you get a good baseline you will know how long it will take any cops that are called to get to your neighborhood.
Don't tell me that the system can distinguish between firecrackers and gunshots 100% of the time.
Now if a crime is planned the police will be distracted to another location far away from the crime . The subculture will use it as a game with law enforcement .
Now the police know which parts of town to avoid. Would you want to patrol the dangerous parts of town where shots have been fired?
Well I know one city that will have a huge demand for black market gun silencers.
Is this the device that is used by the military in Iraq/Afghanistan? If so, the device detects the vortex created by a super sonic projectile and then using readings from multiple sensors to triangulate the point of origin of the projectile. I'm not certain that the system Youngstown is purchasing is the same, but if not, and it somehow only detects loud bangs...then that seems a BIT useless. Arguments that YPD will just refuse to respond are not valid, but the argument that the shooters will be long gone are very valid.
Perhaps at night cruisers could be posted at strategic locations that experienced a high amount of gunfire for a faster responce . Getting the thugs off the streets should be a top priority .
I agree this is a huge waste of money. We need more humans, trained officers that is, not this. Seems to me that our elected officials buckled under to to another corpperation & designated that money for "technology" so the same old people can make a buck. Our law makers & money spenders keep giving it to the rich producers not the working stiffs. In this case the working stiffs are all the laid off law enforcement officers - nobody is safe anymore.
its a waste if you ask me, ypd don't even come down my street any more
Stopping the bang.
I remember the CIA placed cases and cases of exploding ammunition in Vietnam at enemy ammo dumps for the enemy to use. If you fired it, the ammo would explode and destroy the weapon and injure or kill the enemy.
Now, that is effective use of technology.
If you supplied exploding ammo that destroyed a gun to the subculture you would be sued by the ACLU and they would get huge cash awards . The subculture is protected .
It`s a good thing for usa1- pro-conservaterican that there isn`t one of these devices for detecting conservative hypocrisy and lies or the Police would be surrounding his dwelling 24-7.It could be called teabagger triangulation technology.
Waste of money, spend the money on hiring people who need jobs for one, and saturating the high crime areas with patrols.
Here's my game plan. I'm a thief and want to rob a place on the north side at 11:00. so i send my partner to the top of market street on the south side and have him shoot 9 shots into the air at 10:55. police respond and so do i. Easy money at the expense of someone's expensive useless tool.


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Olympic Golden Post Box
Outside the Magna Carta pub in the historic section of Lincoln is one of the Golden Olympic Post Boxes. As a celebration of the Olympic games being held in London during 2012 it was decided that for every gold medal that an athlete won during either the Olympics or Paralympics that a post box would be painted gold in the home city of the person that won.
In this case, the post box was painted in honour of Sophie Wells who is an English Paralympic athlete specialising in Equestrian events.Related to:
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Steep Hill
Steep Hill is the street which is most associated with the medieval old town of Lincoln. The street is a prolongation from the more modern shopping streets like High Street and Strait and leads up to Castle Hill. Especially close to Castle Hill, you will find many half-timbered buildings, including the house where the "Wig and Mitre" is located. Today, many of thoses The most interesting houses are two stone-built Norman houses which were owned by wealthy, probably Jewish, merchants. They are named "Jew's House" and "Norman House" (see separate tips).
There are handrails at the most steep parts of the street. However, it is quite difficult to push up wheelchairs or baby strollers up the hill.Related to:
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Jew's House, Norman House & Medieval Jewish Life
In the height of middle ages, Lincoln was one of the most important cities in the country. Weaving and wool trade made it prosperous, many of the merchants being of Jewish Origin. One of the best known was Aaron of Lincoln, who lived in the 12th century. He was probably the richest man in the country and gave loans to finance large projects of Crown and Church. An organisation called "Aaron's Exchequers" collcted the debts, numbering over 7000 Pounds, after his death in 1186. Unfortunately, during his lifetime antisemitism was already growing in England. In 1190, four years after Aaron's Death, a former debtor was responsible for a massacre on the Jewish Community in York. When A Christian boy was found dead in 1255, the Jewish community was accused of ritual murder. The child was made a saint by the local community, though this was never confirmed by the Vatican. "Little St. Hugh" has a shrine in Lincoln Cathedral which became a monument against antisemitism in 1955.
There are two stone houses preserved from Aaron's time, called "Jew's House" (15 The Strait) and "Norman House" (46-47 Steep Hill). They were built in the late 11th or early 12th century and are probably be the oldest private stone dwellings in Britain. Both are often associated with Aaron, the Norman House was even known for long time as the "House of Aaron". It is known that both buildings were owned by wealthy Jewish merchants, but not if any of them was known by Aaron. Jew's House is used as a restaurant while Norman House is a shop today.Related to:
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Newport Arch
Newport Arch is the remaining structure of a Roman gate from the 3rd century. It is one of the oldest structures in Britain and the oldest one used in everyday traffic. Although two lorries have caused some damage to the arch (in 1964 and 2004 resp.), the Newport Arch is still well and alive.Related to:
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Westgate Water Tower
As a reaction to a typhoid epidemy in the early 20th century, the city of Lincoln decided to build a Water Tower in order to provide a clean and healthy water supply. It was completed in 1911 and is still in use today. With a height of almost 36 metres, it is not as high as the Cathedral, but still one of the highest buildings in Lincoln. It's an imposive landmark with beautiful ornaments from its time, but clearly outshadowed by the Cathedral and the Castle. Due to its castle-like shape it has often been mistaken as part of the castle.Related to:
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Stonebow Gate and Guildhall
Next to the Cathedral and the Castle, Lincoln has many preserved medieval buildings, especially around the narrow streets south of those two buildings. Coming from the train station, one of the first buildings you will see is the Stonebow Gate / Guildhall complex. Stonebow was once the southern gate of the city and was destroyed in 1390 after the structure was considered to be unsafe. Although a replacement structure was ordered to be built immediately, corruption, theft and general medieval chaos led to a slowdown of construction. The present Stonebow was not finished until 1520. The Eastern part is mostly late 14th/early 15th century and forms the oldest part of the complex. The statues of the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in the niches are probably even older.
In 1810, the adjacent guildhall was rebuilt and the building was altered several times in the 19th century. While the medieval structures of Stonebow Gate were preserved, it fitted well together with the neogothic style of the Victorian era. The Guildhall is still in use for meetings, concerts and other events as of today.Related to:
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St. Paul in the Bail
Long-time residents of Lincoln may remember a Victorian church called St. Paul in the Bail located at the northeastern corner of the castle. Daytrip tourists like me only see a garden with a church-shaped mark of stones and ask themselves what the story behind it was.
St. Paul in the Bail has a long history, especially one of leaving the church building to decay and rebulding a new one. Little is known about the earliest buildings which were probably Late Roman architectural style. It is said the the first one was built in 627 when St. Paulinus brought Christianity to this area, making St. Paul in the Bail the oldest church in Lincoln and one of the oldest in Britain. One building was demolished in 1302 and replaced by another church. The same happened in 1786 and 1885 before the final one was pulled down in 1971. Old gravestones have been preserved on site while items from the church can often be found in other cchurches of Lincoln. A roll of honour from WWI for example was moved to St. Mary Magdalene's church.Related to:
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Historic Central Market
This beautiful market hall was built in 1938, but incorporated parts of an older market building which dates from 1737. The building is grade II listed. It looks fine from outside, but the stalls inside are a real disappointment. Many of them look cheap and offer low-value asian household items and goods of similar price and quality. Next to that, there are such shops as a Christian bookstore, a shop where you can unlock your mobile - to sum up, it has all the cheap-looking shops instead of the classic shops of old Britain you would expect. The last time I visited this place was in early 2011, therefore I hope that the situation has improved. The market has 80 stalls (many of them were empty at the time of my visit) and is open between 0900 am and 0400 pm.Related to:
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Empowerment (sculpture)
Next to the Cathedral, the Castle and the cathedral imp, the sculpture "Empowerment" is used as a trademark for the city of Lincoln. It was sponsored by turbine manufacturer Alstom and the two figures resemble turbine blades. However, the word Empowerment leaves as many possibilities for interpretation as the sculpture does. The artwork was unveiled in 2002 and has been well accepted by Lincoln' residents. It has a heighth of 17 metres.Related to:
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Lincoln Castle
Lincoln Castle was once an important medieval stronghold with a complex of buildings. Like similar strucutres, it was built in the late 11th on order of William the Conqueror as a base and symbol of power. Lincoln Castle played a role in the struggle between Empress Maud and King Stephen as well as in the war between King John and the Barons. In the 18th and 19th century, the castle was converted into a prison and several new buildings were added.
The Victorian prison buildings have been largely preserved in its original state and house exhibitions about the prison as well as a very good exhibition about the Magna Carta. Of course, the Magna Carta itself is present as well - it is one of only four preserved original copies worldwide. Activities for children to learn the importance of basic rights are available, but to find a puzzle where the result was a picture of Josef Stalin was also amusing for me. Most of the medieval structures are open to the public, including some defense towers and most of the smaller buildings. The inner court as a couple of small details to discover, including an intereting bust of King George III and an 18th century graffitti. A part of Lincoln Castle is used for legal affairs (court and prison) and is not open to the public - unless you have comitted a crime, of course...
Tickets cost 6 GBP (2011) with discounts for groups and children. A free audioguide is available for rent, but there are free guided tours as well. The Castle is - after the catehdral - the most important site to see at Lincoln and well worth a visit.Related to:
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Georgian Prison Building
Built in 1787 the prison housed debtors and felons. Today you'll find a Magna Carta exhibition which includes one of the four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta from 1215.
The part of the prison which was originally a Magistrate's Court is now a cafe.
A small Church, with a Memorial and a nice garden, situated in busy High Street!
The church was mentioned as far back as 1107, on a royal document signed by Henry I when he granted the church to what is now Lincoln Cathedral.
This is not the first church that was built by the Saxons, only the chancel and a part of the chapel is all that remains of that Church.
Existing parish registers go back as far as 1645. It's a lovely building and sits beautifully in St Benedict's Square, and if you wander in a go to the rear, there are stone coffins from long ago
The 16th century bell in the short squat tower was known as Old Kate, no longer here, as it now hangs in St Marks. Old Kate once acted as the curfew bell for resident's living south of the Stonebow.
It was once the richest church in Lincoln and was patronised by some of the richest merchants in the town.
Located at the front of the Church is a War Memorial.Related to:
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William the Conqueror built Lincoln Castle, in 1068, on a strategic site that had once been used by the Romans.
The poor people who lived here, [166 families], were given no choice. There home's were demolished, and they were forced to provide labour for the construction of the castle.
Lincoln Castle still has a full circuit of walls remaining, most of which can be walked on.
For 900 years the castle has been used as a court and prison. The coffin like pews in the chapel, were to remind prisoners of their fate and to ensure that they could not see each other. Many prisoners were deported to Australia and others executed on the ramparts.
The prison has the world's only surviving 'Pentonville System' chapel, where prisoners were kept apart in separate cells. Many of the prisoners who were executed at the castle where buried at the base of the Tower mound or inside the Lucy Tower.
The castle also has one of the four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta, which can be viewed in an exhibition area in the old prison building.
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The historic Central Market, is located by the the Waterside Shopping Centre, only a short walk away from the High Street and the City's bus and train stations.
The market contains 80 individual stalls, selling a wide range of goods and services like Book's, clothing, CD's, etc.
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The Green Dragon Inn was located at the start of my walk alongside the River.
It looked a very nice half'timbered building, and I loved the small Green Dragon!
It was 16th Century Merchant's House's. In 1956, it was restored, and then became known as the "New Green Dragon."
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We visited Lincoln yesterday with some friends from Nottingham and will not be returning in the near future. Walking along High Street just past the Court my husband was threatened by a young man with a very large dog who demanded a cigarette. He became very violent and was dragged away by a shopkeeper who obviously knew him.
This part of Lincoln should be avoided, to be honest the best bits of Lincoln are uphill.
That sort of thing can happen anywhere in the UK or elsewhere....and does. It isn't Lincoln-specific and I really don't think your unfortunate experience should put you, or anyone else, off visiting Lincoln's fantastic historical sights and sites.
Exactly. Such encounters can happen in my own city but rarely, and certainly no reason to give it a miss.
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Are you calling me gross AND stupid?!?
You were not mentioned by name but if the shoe fits, the shoe box is huge. Welcome to my world.
Where ever you are, there you be.
Originally Posted by flatulent1
Are you calling me gross AND stupid?!?
I dunno, but he left out "odorous"...
I do use a digital device in my photographic pursuits when necessary.
When someone rags on me for using film, I use a middle digit, upraised.
The way Fred talks to his favorite sheep, most people think its name is "Neil"..
Fred gets around!
I have just spent the best hour and a half reading through what I've missed in my absence from this madhouse..
Thank you all for the laughs, the tears, the gas, the recipes and the innuendo..(especially the innuendo!)
Come on Oly... show yourself again... We're not even half way there!!
Now my polka dots and I are off to pour a glass of wine..
I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making more...
Yep Sile, getting drunk is an appropriate thing to do after reading this thread!
Now that Sheila's back I vote we have her collect her whips and handcuffs and go find that Olympus.
Fred Latchaw
Seattle WA
Right now in Spain they're holding the Running of the Bulls,
followed by the Soiling of the Pants, and the Burying of the Idiots.
I second that!
I'd be all for that.. but since Fred borrowed them off me last year they're completely tangled up with wool. I have no idea what he did with them...
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Originally Posted by lxdude
Yep Sile, getting drunk is an appropriate thing to do after reading this thread!
You are supposed to get drunk AFTER reading this thread!?!?!?! I've been getting drunk before reading it! Guess I missed the memo
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Hi, I've helping to develop a website for our local Scouting group. This is my first venture in to WordPress and whilst things are going fairly well so far I've a few issues I've been able to solve so having found so much useful information here already I figure I might get some much needed help to.
I've created a child theme based on Twenty Thirteen, a mock up of the site is currently live at: http://stage.1stwoosehill.org.uk/
The issue I have is that the widgets don't want to appear to want to use all the available space they have in the footer, making some look cramped.
What I'd desire is a way to specify a minimum width and maximum width for the widgets. So if I have just 1 widget it may be sized to the maximum, 2 widgets may still also allow them to be sized to the max, 3 widgets and they are sized to something between max and min such that they use a 3rd of the widget area. And so on.
I found this post: http://slobodanmanic.com/444/flexible-horizontal-sidebars-wordpress-twenty-thirteen-child-theme/ however when I switched to using that I observerd:
a) I got the basic layout I wanted in terms of using the width of the widget area.
b) The widgets per row was fixed regardless of screen size, which really squashed them on mobile devices.
As you can see from the current staging site the 3 widgets present don't use 100% of the widget area width. I've tried increasing their width in the CSS but found that it just wraps them down to the next row once when I'm sure they could fit. I suspect this is something to do with the "masonry" code (which I've not looked at) and I think it could be to do with these areas being specified in px rather than as a %. But I'm not sure this is true or how to go about fixing it.
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