Recent content by Ivan Seeking

True story: When I was a physics student, one day I attended a mechanics lecture without first studying the chapter. The professor walked in and started talking about canonical coordinates. At first I thought he meant conical coordinates and assumed he must be drunk.

17 years ago I started a thread introducing our new orange-tabby, Domestic shorthair kitten, Little Tyke. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/introducing-little-tyke-a-tribute-to-einstein.231601/ Little Tyke ended up being female but the name stuck officially. Generally she was called Little...

1 Platypi = 3.14 platypuses.

Hey, pssssst, you all know about [Windows Key + G]?

Guess what happened.

Cool! I had forgotten about it. In fact for a time I thought it was on a mission that failed. But some years ago I found the certificate and realized the disk should be up there. I guess we all should be listed in the first museum on Mars. :)

No one knows for a fact we have never been visited. That is simple logic.

Did anyone else do this? I eliminated our names but it is genuine.

You know that for a fact eh?

I put together a curve-fitting program for a control system, using the least squares method for typically 100-1000 data points. The math gets a little crazy. In order to maintain five significant figures in my results, I had to go to seventeen significant figures in the calculations. A...

Obviously I mean 5000 Roman Feet = 1 Mile

I thought you joined about when I did. But this is 22 for me. Course I haven't been active for 12 years; except to drop by once in awhile to exchange jokes and photos.