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not many (any?) people were bragging.. we started promisingly but spent the last 60+ mins sitting in our own half, and the last 15 in our own box! we'll have a shock in the next round against any half-decent team - we were lucky that paraguay were misfiring too

please feel free to be less condescending in future, especially when you are mistaken

the hint is in reference to the final step in your workings for the first question. also, those are not the correct circle equations for the second. multiply out the lower one to see.

the use of the circumflex above the o in the 'correct' spelling usually indicates an s that has been dropped from the word. in this case, "hôpital" would be from "hospital". this would imply that "l'hospital's rule" is equally valid..

wouldn't it be easier to consider that in any set arrangement any individual button is either on or off, and each independently. so the total number of possibles is 2^9 = 512. it is clear that all of these are distinct (i have one more than you because my method includes 'all off' as a...

i don't know about the case for cubes but it's definitely not true for squares. it's possible to partition a square into smaller squares with integer sides such that none have the same side length. they are known as 'squared squares' [See...

if it was intended to be an omega that's pretty clever..

one of my friends only recently got the pun in the name of the beatles' record label - apple corps it's only when you pronounce it rather than just seeing the word that you understand a lot of these kind of things

rather than using the two theorems to get results, then say that they are not true, would it not be better to use the fact that they are contradictory?

is there such a thing as a point on a line that is not infinitely small?

'soccer' comes from 'asSOCiation football'

it wasn't banned in the UK - there were a few complaints but they weren't upheld and the ad is all over the broadcast/print media

matt wouldn't have said that unless it applied to your problem. is there any way of writing your problem in the form a.b=0?

'The Distribution Of Prime Numbers' - A.E.Ingham is pretty good, but then it's the only one I've used so there may be better suggestions out there..

a personal favourite of mine is 'bollocks'. just enough harsh sounds in there to make you feel better if you stub your toe :)