Game where you can use your calculus skills

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mirth

#15
August 24, 2017, 12:24:30 PM
Powerful, it is
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Barthheart

#16
August 24, 2017, 02:25:44 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on August 24, 2017, 10:33:48 AM
Calculus sucks a goat's ass.

This x 100000000.... and I'm an engineer...  :P

bbmike

#17
August 24, 2017, 05:14:12 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on August 24, 2017, 02:25:44 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on August 24, 2017, 10:33:48 AM
Calculus sucks a goat's ass.

This x 100000000.... and I'm an engineer...  :P

From one engineer to another. +1000  O0
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

#18
August 24, 2017, 05:17:46 PM
Heartwarming to read about all the engineers who hate math...
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

#19
August 24, 2017, 05:19:40 PM
Fuck Calculus and COBOL, dammit!  :tickedoff:

bbmike

#20
August 24, 2017, 05:27:42 PM
COBOL is still a thing?  :o
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

#21
August 24, 2017, 05:28:35 PM
You can make good money right now if you really know COBOL.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

#22
August 24, 2017, 05:31:47 PM
Quote from: bbmike on August 24, 2017, 05:27:42 PM
COBOL is still a thing?  :o

It is. So is FORTRAN. There are some frightening legacy systems around that no one under 70 really knows how to maintain.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bbmike

#23
August 24, 2017, 05:35:10 PM
Damn. I studied both. I thought they went the way of rotary dial phones years ago.
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

#24
August 24, 2017, 05:37:51 PM
They should have, but they're still around in some scary ways. Banking and healthcare for example.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

#25
August 24, 2017, 05:43:37 PM
I'd rather code old BASIC scan cards and run them through that decrepit WANG card reader we used my freshman year of high school than fuss about with COBOL lines.

mirth

#26
August 24, 2017, 05:45:37 PM
Heheh...he said WANG card...
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

#27
August 24, 2017, 05:52:10 PM
1984 was a good year to be 15 and have a big machine with the word WANG on it in one of your classrooms.

trailrunner

#28
August 24, 2017, 05:52:33 PM
I'm an engineer and I loved calculus.  I was a double major (engineering and math) for a while, and took all the extra math classes I could.  Our engineering department emphasized math.  I loved mathematical physics - lots of advanced calculus in that class.  Loved it.

I also learned FORTRAN, and I learned it using punch chards.  Those were NOT the good old days.  Punch your cards, submit your job, wait two hours, only to find that you had a syntax error because you mis-typed a character.

BTW, anybody still have an RPN calculator?

mirth

#29
August 24, 2017, 06:00:24 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on August 24, 2017, 05:52:33 PM
I'm an engineer and I loved calculus.  I was a double major (engineering and math) for a while, and took all the extra math classes I could.  Our engineering department emphasized math.  I loved mathematical physics - lots of advanced calculus in that class.  Loved it.

I also learned FORTRAN, and I learned it using punch chards.  Those were NOT the good old days.  Punch your cards, submit your job, wait two hours, only to find that you had a syntax error because you mis-typed a character.

BTW, anybody still have an RPN calculator?

NERD!!!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus
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