Posted on 08/14/2013 8:07:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Three Phillips Exeter Academy students Alex Song, Ray Y. Li, and Kevin C. Sun shocked the world when they respectively won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the 54th International Mathematical Olympiad in Santa Marta, Colombia.
While the U.S. team placed third overall Song competed on Team Canada the trio won the medals for individual performance.
The annual competition is a six question, two day, nine hour proof competition with competitors from over 100 countries on 9 continents.
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Roger the -1 for no units.
How much time have you spent in public schools recently? I was in the local HS yesterday and I assure you - not one thing you have stated here is true about any of the conversations that I either heard or partook.
No doubt!
But “party dresses are fun”! LOL
Barbie def has her priorities straight.
LOL!
I noticed the same thing so guess that makes me racist too.
True dat!
I took algebra in the 9th grade...the teacher took me aside and said he would pass me on a D if I promised not to take any more algebra classes.....true story, I got my D instead of an E so I wouldn’t have to repeat the class...its still funny 60 years later...
Smirking... I love FR... it’s great to see like minded people... when I saw that Calvin & Hobbes cartoon strip... I immediately worked out the answer too... just for my satisfaction. That math contest stuff though... no way. I forget all of the infinite series expansions and differential equations I was taught in Engineering School.
I know the reason I forget all that stuff, though... my feeble mind can only recall so much information and Eigenvalue problem solutions and LaPlace Transforms have been supplanted by needing to remember approximately 4,637,289 passwords for ATM cards, bank account and credit card loginIDs, Online Stock Brokerage accounts, 5 rotating email accounts (that the NSA is watching anyways), and then internet games, various forums, Meetup groups, dating websites, “Free” Credit History Reporting websites.... FR and what the Hell, throw in a couple porn websites too.
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