Student revolts; why not work AND study?

[d000hg]

There are some flies in the ointment. University isn't simply about learning a bunch of stuff, but about exposure to the world and other people. On the frivolous level that includes drinking and partying and sports, university lifestyle really is very different to real life. On a serious level it involves interacting with a bunch of total strangers, and so on.

I don't think there's much wrong with distance learning on the pure learning front, although not being able to chat with your lecture-buddy on the way home abut the lecture, and other such 'casual learning opportunities', may be missed. But Just learning stuff is what you do at school; higher education should be a life-changing thing.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Is the proof that 2 is more than 1 any easier? Surely though 1 is greater than 0 by definition?

Depends on the system. The definition of partial or total order is quite distinct from the definition of binary operations that make the system a group or lattice or ring or whatever.

For example, Boolean algebra has 0 and 1 but no defined order, so nothing is "greater" than anything else.

[GillsMan]

Exactly who much thinking and concentration did it take to learn binary?

Heh, yeah tbf it didn't take me ages to learn it but I definitely had to concentrate hard to get my head round it! And yes, I have to admit, it took me a bit longer with Hex. I don't think I have a natural aptitude for numbers, but certainly by concentrating hard and working at it I got to grips with it - as you say, it's not that difficult (it just took me a bit of extra work).

[Mich the Tester]

Heh, yeah tbf it didn't take me ages to learn it but I definitely had to concentrate hard to get my head round it! And yes, I have to admit, it took me a bit longer with Hex. I don't think I have a natural aptitude for numbers, but certainly by concentrating hard and working at it I got to grips with it - as you say, it's not that difficult (it just took me a bit of extra work).

Ask this fellow for some help;

[thunderlizard]

That's the Digits of Pi man!
YouTube - Open University - Pi Digits

[OwlHoot]

There's a handy series for quickly extracting individual binary or hex digits of PI at any position, the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, only discovered a few years ago.

(No similar ones have been found that work in decimal though, AFAIK)

[SupremeSpod]

There's a handy series for quickly extracting individual binary or hex digits of PI at any position, the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, only discovered a few years ago.

(No similar ones have been found that work in decimal though, AFAIK)

Very impressive. Easy when you know how, eh?

[Gibbon]

I understand that some of the summer skools used to be quite interesting.

In a bed hopping sort of way.

Only in the humanities of course.