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  • L Lost User

    I (easily) passed the courses Graphics (50% of it was linear algebra), Data-structures (mostly about algorithmic complexity) and even Cryptography without passing the 1st-year Maths course (not until I re-did it for the 3rd time). Knowing a lot about maths may not be as important as they want you to think..

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    Dalek Dave
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    NOT knowing maths is going to get you killed. Think Engineering, medicine, dance, etc :)

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      What are those in CGPA?

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      Don't apply, doing this one as a mature student through the Open Univesity.

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        I presume you un univoted me. Thanks But really, how hard is sums? Look it is all just algebra and functions, and once you get that then all is clear.

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        venomation
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        Dalek Dave wrote:

        I presume you un univoted me.

        I didnt mean to offend you! I take advise seriously so thank you ! :-D

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          NOT knowing maths is going to get you killed. Think Engineering, medicine, dance, etc :)

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          I dont want to die young :laugh:

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            I presume you un univoted me. Thanks But really, how hard is sums? Look it is all just algebra and functions, and once you get that then all is clear.

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            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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            I could swear I did the first time around! Rectified.

            Dalek Dave wrote:

            But really, how hard is sums?

            I don't find them hard, but some were quite tedious. Some of the expansions and transforms that we did back in school.. a recipe for a headache. However, when I first tackled my MS degree, I was dumbstruck by how much harder it was for me to do, what I previously considered simple, calculus. I am certain it was due to my lack of practice.

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              Don't apply, doing this one as a mature student through the Open Univesity.

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              Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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              I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)

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                I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)

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                venomation
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                I clicked the thumb up though like all comments so far :doh: You deserve a 5 I am trying to click them and it appears to be working.

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                • V venomation

                  Sadly I have looked there, just seems to be too much association with maths terms I am not familiar with ie: "The vector resolute (also known as the vector projection) of two vectors, A in the direction of B (also A on B")" ... tells me that a projection is a direction between two vectors... The math symbols used some of which I know (dot product for example I know returns a number representing a vectors direction ie 0), but make it hard for me to just look at and understand :(

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                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                  Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)

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                    I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays. My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.

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                      Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)

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                      Only easy in conventional physics. Now try it at the quantum level! :) Wonderful....One of them turns into a whale and the other, a bowl of petunias!

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                        I dont want to die young :laugh:

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                        Dalek Dave
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                        Ahhhh...so you learnt dance!

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                          All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays. My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.

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                          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                          All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays.

                          OK, Gotcha

                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                          which were boosted by the oral digression

                          That sounds a bit... racy and more like a bribe! :-D

                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                          My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.

                          I can sympathize with that.

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                            Only easy in conventional physics. Now try it at the quantum level! :) Wonderful....One of them turns into a whale and the other, a bowl of petunias!

                            ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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                            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                            Ah, but that's when you break out the bistro mathematics and the cup of coffee...

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                              NOT knowing maths is going to get you killed. Think Engineering, medicine, dance, etc :)

                              ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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                              Lost User
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                              Apparently my thinking apparatus is having a little trouble today, because I don't see any connection between engineering, medicine and dance, other than that they all appear in your post.

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                                Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)

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                                Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                                Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact.

                                Very easy to understand :D So a ball falling from the sky at an angle when it hits the projection would be the vector that the ball will "bounce" towards?

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                                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                                  Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact.

                                  Very easy to understand :D So a ball falling from the sky at an angle when it hits the projection would be the vector that the ball will "bounce" towards?

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                                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                                  Correct :) To be pedantic, the "ball falling from the sky at an angle" is the ball and its vector details, the angle being the direction in 2D/3D space (depending on how you see it) and upon "impact" with another vector (even an immobile has a vector) results with a projection, again each one has a projection.

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                                  • L Lost User

                                    Apparently my thinking apparatus is having a little trouble today, because I don't see any connection between engineering, medicine and dance, other than that they all appear in your post.

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                                    Dalek Dave
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                                    All require mathematics to make them work.

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                                      All require mathematics to make them work.

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                                      Some more subconsciously than others.

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                                        Some more subconsciously than others.

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                                        The best lesson I ever had... I want you to observe an object falling through space, then , having observed, enable via an interaction, immediately, to interject a second object, freely, to interupt the ballistic path of the first object, and, by doing so, cessate the conclusion of its path, taking into consideration such divers data as freefall path, gravity, air resistance and procedural lagging and show, through empirical means, that such an interaction is both possible and, via completion, achievable, in a time frame that is shorter than that achievable by the frame available to that of concious thought. It was easy... Catch!

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                                          I am about to start University for a Computer Science degree however my maths skills are not great (GCSE level 2) as I haven't done A levels maths... Maths has always been a struggle for me as the tutors seemed more concerned on the "higher" students than "middle grade"... Can anyone recommend a on-line resource or book for learning some maths higher than GCSE level 2 as allot of algorithm books (especially game development books) contain lots of wonderful symbols and structure which I do not know (or know how to search for them as I do not know the names)? :-D

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                                          Well I'm pretty sure that GCSE maths will get you through the course, and if it helps I did A-Level maths and still have trouble understanding all the crazy symbols they throw in. Even knowing the symbols it's still a struggle to figure out what all of the variables are. I've still not found much use for any of the maths I learned at A-Level and it's all slowly slipping away. GCSE Physics and algebra on the other hand are most definitely useful.

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