hi, im new!!!

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

dont think i have ever used it either

big gra said:

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

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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

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

aye reet folk outside of computors use any thing else