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[water_moon]

century, a group of 100, or a hundrend years, but that came after the original meaning.

In this case, in F when we have 100+ degree weather, we call it century temps, for 2 reasons, if it's rare n that place, then it happens "once a century" but also b/c it denotes anything 100+, so you don't haev to keep delininating beween 104 and 102 and 100 and... well let's just say when you've had a month of temps over 100 (did in Dallas) it's faster and eaiser.

 

[Ana]

century, a group of 100, or a hundrend years, but that came after the original meaning.

In this case, in F when we have 100+ degree weather, we call it century temps, for 2 reasons, if it's rare n that place, then it happens "once a century" but also b/c it denotes anything 100+, so you don't haev to keep delininating beween 104 and 102 and 100 and... well let's just say when you've had a month of temps over 100 (did in Dallas) it's faster and eaiser.

Well, let's hope we don't get Century temps, it would mean I would get boiled... Century Celcius, heaven forbid.

 

[Kefir-Tribe1]

Or 100 Kelvin for that matter. That's ~ -173 degrees Celsius.

edit: heh, typo :blush:

 

[Ana]

Oh, frrrreeezing.

 

[water_moon]

how 'bout "3 and a half century" K? that sould still be reasonable, on the surface of the earth even.

 

[Kefir-Tribe1]

Yeah, but 2 and a half maybe, my fault.

 

[water_moon]

Ithought that seemed a bit off.... but it's been a while since I took physics and longer since Chem

 

[Ana]

Sucked at both... Well, that explains a lot... *embarresed look*

 

[Aman]

I am quite good at physics passed it last year :grin:

 

[Ana]

I'm completely Alfa minded and in IT... Hmm...

 

[water_moon]

alfa? hmm, phyiscs was okay, though I prefer the conceptual portions or elctromagnetics, most of the calc and esp the trig basied math annoys me

 

[Ana]

You see? You totally lost me. Alfa: languages, history, art.

 

[water_moon]

did you know that math and art are linked in the brain? they both involve pattern finding and manipilation

 

[Ana]

No, didn't know that. But I still don't get math, I've always been good at calculas tho.

 

[water_moon]

err, calc is math. and if we're talking the same thing, it's considerd more "adavanced" over here.

 

[Jude]

Math and music are linked strongly. I've always felt that drawing and geometry are very similar.

Jude

 

[Ana]

Oh no, another one... hahaha.

Why do I feel I am going to lose this?

*gets herself a large, very large Coebergh*

Mental Arithmetic (don't shoot me, this is what the dictionary said).

 

[somethingsin]

Right... time for the mathematician/physicist bilinguist
(well, only a student)
to clear things up a bit
Calc is calculus, which means differentiating and intergrating
(of differentieren en integreren in Nederland)
Don't know if you've had much of that, as I'm not aware of mathematical education throughout the world/time.

Calc is indeed quite difficult to grasp if you're not a math whizz.
what the dutch consider to be alpha are things like languages, history, geography, economics (for some reason) and of course actual art and music. Basicly, anything that gets you a BA or MA title

 

[Ana]

Thank you, Something, for clearing that up for me. No calculus for me then. How to translate old fashioned hoofdrekenen?

 

[water_moon]

Mental Arithmetic works


and what about sombody who's good at math, art, history, physics and got a BA in economics?