Posted on 11/21/2017 12:58:35 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
15/15, with pen and paper assist on about 4 of the questions. Kept the calculators off, as directed.
Us old folks remember when a slide rule was an advanced “calculator,” though.
Yep. I got them all this way. I think that's part of the test.
Aced it. But not from the Daily Mail, where the damned little facebook bar sat on top of the possible answers, prohibiting clicking on them. Clicked on through to the Buzzfeed original site, which was infinitely better. Then got 100%. Without a calculator or pen/paper a couple were head-achy though.
Yup. Figuring what the last digit would be first saved a lot of time.
I never used a slide rule. One of my high school math teachers tried to teach us, but that effort ended before any of us actually learned anything.
Calculators were just hitting the market then. That was in the 1970s.
That's an odd choice.
If you are any kind of life scientist, you have to use pretty heavy statistics. And many functions of living things are best described using some sort of logarithmic function. Although, since we naturally operate within a logarithmic world, perhaps logarithms are not so difficult to master as a student.
Mathematics came to me latter in life.
Now it is simple.
I am currently proof reading CNC programs for a friends company.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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