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Sounds so much like a homework question...

Checked and edited accordingly. My bad.

It means we are generating 800% as much energy as the whole of France consumes in a day. Tap our enegies for only a day and France will be sorted for the next eight days. :)

It means that if I suffer brain death, my anal sphincter will still suffer spasm whenever I have bowel motions or when a doctor does a digital rectal exam on me. I won't feel the pain though cause I'll be brain dead remember? :)

We think all actions are results from signals send from the brain. That's not always the case. Other originate from the spinal cord. A reflex is purely mediated through the spinal cord.

I now see it is energy and frequency and not wavelength and frequency. That statement is correct after all.

Could someone please confirm that statement? I thought the wave length increases when sound waves enters a denser medium.

Been trying to get back to PF. I have struggled and at last have This is after wasting valueble data bundles in google apps store downloading PF for androids. plain google search gave me this link.

Correct.

No, it isn't a death sentence. I work in a place where prevalance was 50% (simply saying, if I don't have it, the other guy has). It was one of the highest prevalance rate in the whole world. With Antiretrovirals and food, this guys life expectancy is at per with the rest of the population. In...

One Kenyan shilling is a hundreth of a Euro. 1KSh1= 1/100 Euro So you give me 1 euro, how many shillings are that? 1/(1/100) or 1/(.01). Thats KSh100. So division by a fraction is just looking at matters from the other guy's point of view :)

To the uninitiated (like me) it is.

We wouldn't be in this quagmire if the Indians or Arabs didn't invent the decimal fraction. I guess we have to live with it.

How do people end with .9r? Apart from trying to derive square root of numbers using Newton's method, the biggest culprit is how we employ the authorised order of operation in mathematics i.e. BODMAS, PENDMAS e.t.c. Specificaly where we place the quantities. I saw an equation being used to...

I like Newton's method. It prevents the absurdity of having a square root of number being equal in magnitude to the square without breaking a sweat. That way, I'm comfortable in having this neat equations sqrt. 1=0.9r and conversely sqrt. 0.9r=1 (I noticed that square roots of fractions...