Posts Tagged ‘ Discrete Math ’

Erik’s Reflection Week 9

November 9, 2011
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Erik’s Reflection Week 9

I’ve seen too many of those curly bracket thingamajigs this week, even without going to math class. And they’re so hard to draw, too! I eventually started just drawing zig-zag lines instead. Despite previous claims, I will now write another poem this week:   Slowly, the week dragged on, Never relenting its annoying large load…

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Irene’s Reflection Week 2

September 12, 2011
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Irene’s Reflection Week 2

Smullyan’s Island… What a lovely place to visit, don’t you think? A place where people ALWAYS lie or tell the truth. Raymond Smullyan must be an imaginative guy. Well, in looking into these truth tellers and liars, you have to make certain decisions. For example, if a A says, “I am lying.” You cannot decide…

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Irene’s Reflection Week 1

September 8, 2011
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Irene’s Reflection Week 1

I learned about the Josephus Problem. There is a skip number, and that person is killed. (Do NOT trust math mathematicians when they are supposed to kill themselves!) I am astounded that Josephus can figure out the last person left out of 40 people, that is one smart guy! Did he figure out which spot…

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Sarah’s Reflection Week 38

June 9, 2011
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Sarah’s Reflection Week 38

Oh… don’t we wish. So… this is it. This is the end of that wonderful, fun-filled journey we call Discrete Math class. It feels unreal – I can’t believe I won’t be walking to class like normal, seeing you all and saying hi again. But then again, school’s also closing out in a matter of…

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Sarah’s Reflection Week 37

June 2, 2011
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Sarah’s Reflection Week 37

So this week, people from my school went to New York City to see “Wicked” the Broadway Musical (so jealous!!! I couldn’t go..) Ironically enough, the day that everyone disappeared to NYC, I wore a shirt that said “New York.” Anyway, just thinking about Pizza Hut is making me hungry (I’m writing this sentence in…

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Quotations

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think–rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” ~ James Beattie