A Conversation for Constructions with a Ruler and a Compass
beautiful - but why?
Sho - employed again! Started conversation Oct 4, 2007
ToyBox - you've really damaged my brain now! 
it's an interesting article but you lost me at around P and P'
I'll come back to this, though, I won't be beaten by geometry! 
beautiful - but why?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Oct 4, 2007
Agreed, lovely entry!
Tell me, can geometry illustrate the golden ratio? Is this why it's beautiful?
beautiful - but why?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Oct 4, 2007
Or why not! 
I was really enjoying it, even imagined I understood some of it, until it took a turn toward algebra where I have prejudicially negative feelings because I know I just don't get it. But up to that point (points are only as imaginary as the lines they are on) I was doing fine. 
~jwf~
beautiful - but why?
Sho - employed again! Posted Oct 5, 2007
imaginary numbers are what lost me when I was doing my maths A-level. It has all been downhill from there!
beautiful - but why?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Oct 5, 2007
It's funny, elgebra I dont have so much of a problem with, trig I cannot fathom under any circumstances. I always liked pythag too.. Cant remember it, but I like it!
beautiful - but why?
Sho - employed again! Posted Oct 5, 2007
I liked drawing the graphs for sin, cosin and eeeppp! what's the other one?
beautiful - but why?
Sho - employed again! Posted Oct 5, 2007
*falls sobbing on Robyn's shoulder*
yes. Tan. Thank you. or was it...(I still have the calculator I used in the 6th form - if only I'd looked there I'd not have written my previous post...)
But now I'm reminded of calculus and I need a lie down
beautiful - but why?
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Oct 5, 2007
steady Sho! Steady there... It's ok, you wanna try loving maths but not being able to keep the numbers still!
beautiful - but why?
Sho - employed again! Posted Oct 5, 2007
nope - I don't want to try loving maths. Since the i numbers maths and I are history.
Although I sometimes pine for the heady days when i approached calculus with no fear, the equation of a circle wasn't just gobbledygook and Trig wasn't a character out of Only Fools and Horses.
But it wasn't meant to be.
(the big fat F on my A-level results is also a bit of a giveaway!)
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