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25 Apr 2007, 3:21 pm

Here you can enter the Royal Society of Chemistry's competition to answer a math question. For anyone who's done A-level math it's quite easy. I thought other people here might like to have a go, I just entered today. And also I wanted to know if anyone else here likes math since I do.

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25 Apr 2007, 3:35 pm

I got an A+ in geometry when I was in High School...


... but that was over 16 years ago


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25 Apr 2007, 3:41 pm

Well this is sort of a geometry question. It's about intersections of lines and planes. I did it using vectors but I expect there are other ways.



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25 Apr 2007, 6:55 pm

Interesting. Semi-mistake on question - uses "square" when it should really say "right".
(i) Trivial.
(ii) Not much more than trivial.
(iii) Haven't done it (yet). I think it's quite distinctly non-trivial, to give an exact answer. Maybe I'm missing something.


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26 Apr 2007, 11:10 am

TellerStar wrote:
Here you can enter the Royal Society of Chemistry's competition to answer a math question. For anyone who's done A-level math it's quite easy. I thought other people here might like to have a go, I just entered today. And also I wanted to know if anyone else here likes math since I do.


Yeah, I am interested in mathematics; I am studying it at university at the moment. I have a fairly wide interest but I suppose my favourite areas are algebraic ones such as group and ring theory.



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26 Apr 2007, 3:20 pm

JakeG wrote:
Yeah, I am interested in mathematics; I am studying it at university at the moment. I have a fairly wide interest but I suppose my favourite areas are algebraic ones such as group and ring theory.

I'm studying Physics but I like to do the theoretical side especially. But I really like learning complex maths and then applying it to a physical situation so you can solve it. Good luck with your degree.