hi, im new!!!

[big gra]

just joined up, my names graham, im 17 and do enginneering in college! picked my land rover up today, its a 1984 series 3! i live in preston, lancashire? anyone from around here?

 

[Pikey]

Hi and welcome Nice looking landy you've got there.

 

[big gra]

thanks, all the credit goes to the previous owner but ive lots to be doing!

 

[Desiderata]

Hello and Welcome, what type of engineering are you training in ?

 

[big gra]

im doing mechanical engineering, finding it ok, but the maths is difficult!

 

[Take5]

Welcome to the Looneyzone mate. Mech Eng is hard but worth it - we are the ones who REALLY know what things are about

Wait till you get onto control theory and Nyquist plots of controller/feedback response with lots of imaginary numbers

 

[The Mad Hat Man]

fook me - i found the balancing of reciprocating masses bad enuf

dont think i have ever used it either

 

[slob]

im doing mechanical engineering, finding it ok, but the maths is difficult!

fook me maffs is easy,..my daughter had trouble wiff her maffs and as i told her you only have 9 numbers, 0 dint count cos it dint do nowt, so if you can multiply 9 x9 then you can do any maffs there is. after i told her that she improved no end and now has the bestest score in class and she even does pretty hard stuff ( for her age) in her head.
me son on the other hand thought i was talking bollocks when i told him and he's still struggling wiff the concept of there only being 9 numbers.

think about it, you only ever work wiff 2 numbers at a time. Even when working with millions you only ever add, mutiply,subtract or divide 2 digits together at any stage of the total sum.

of course if you have trouble remembering the formulas thats a different thing.
anyway velcum to LZ

 

[The Mad Hat Man]

Sorry Slob - your theory only holds true if you are using numbers base10!

 

[slob]

aye reet folk outside of computors use any thing else