Recent content by Ithryndil

Personally I have never taken Trigonometry. I took Pre-Calculus in high school and went from there onto Calculus, Differential Equations, etc. Anyhow, based on my experience Pre-Calculus had enough Trigonometry in it to get me through the other courses. As another person mentioned, taking both...

Thanks, when you're learning about these concepts it is nice to have confirmation that you are doing things right. Normally it class we get the function down a term or two...or even to one term. So, when I got this down to three terms, with three variables in each term, it didn't really seem...

Homework Statement Find the minimum Sum-Of-Product Expression for: f = ab'c' + abd + ab'cd' The Attempt at a Solution By introducing the missing variable in term 1 and term 2 I can get an expression that has all the variables: a, b, c, and d. I do so by: f = ab'c'd + ab'c'd' + abcd + abc'd...

Ok, I am having a difficult time with the following problem. I am to show that the two sides are equal. x1'x3 + x1x2x3' +x1'x2+x1x2' = x2'x3+x1x3'+x2x3'+x1'x2x3 For the LHS I can simplify it to: x2(x1'+x1x3') + x1'x3 + x1x2' x2x1' + x2x3' + x1'x3 + x1x2' x1'x3 + x2x3' + x1x2' For the...

I am wondering if anyone knows the answer to my above question. Basically I am wondering why Neil and Paul seem to only consider two branes in their model. I remember reading something that allows for multiple branes in higher dimensional space. Seems to me that there could be a large to...

I am currently reading their book Endless Universe...and I think I either missed something or it's just not in there. I remember reading some of Michio Kaku's books and I believe in one of them he mentioned that there might be an infinite number of branes floating in a higher dimension. Either...

Alright. Thank you. I was really getting worried about this...I suppose it would be a whole different thing if I had wanted a degree in physics this whole time and wound up spending 5 - 6 years getting that degree...or if my GPA was lower.

Hello, I have currently switched my major from physics over to software engineering. From what I can find out, I will need to pursue the computer science degree at the University of Arizona. When I was initially going to college, I had actually began with a different degree. After a semester...

Just to be clear, I have until the Spring of 2010 until I head back. While I don't like the idea of taking this year off, I feel it is necessary at this time. So, the motivation during this time is to learn something which will at least be beneficial to me and to the career path I plan on...

Yeah, the Ruby one does have a nice tutorial, but I think in the end Python looks a little more challenging from what I have read here and elsewhere. I have also read a bit from Think Python. With that in mind, I am going to go after Python...and if for whatever reason it proves to be too...

Well, I still think my choice for a first language will be between Ruby and Python, depending on which one is more difficult.

Ok, well my next question is this: "Which is harder to learn: Python or Ruby?"

I am prepared to buy a book for either programming language to help me out. While I am learning on my own, I would like to do the best learning I can...and feel a good book would help out.

Alright, well like I said, I need to figure out which route from the college to take. In the end my goal is Software Engineering so I need to find out which path is best for that field, whether it be CE or CS at the University of Arizona. However, I am not going back to school until Spring of...

Ok, so what I gather is that programs like C, C++, Java have multiple ways to arrive at the same program, whether it be from unnecessary code, or just bad code. However, if the end program works, because I am learning the program, I wouldn't know that I have made a mistake, thus thinking what I...