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And things aren't Christmasy around here!

http://forum.valhallalegends.com/index.php?topic=17079.0

Requires some math knowledge.

There's a boat, that has an initial starting point on the plane and a constant velocity vector.
The starting point and the velocity vector are integers; i.e., the starting point is (a,b) and the boat's position is advanced by (c,d) every second, and a,b,c,d are integers.
You have no knowledge of the boat's position or velocity, but you are allowed, once per second, to bomb a point of your choice in the plane. (After each bombing attempt you know only whether you failed or succeeded.)

Give an algorithm to find and bomb the boat.

The Apache Group is pleased to announce the legacy release of the 1.3.37 version of the Apache HTTP Server.

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This topic has been moved to Kinesiology and Physiology.

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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AlgebraicNumber.html

Prove that if r is a rational number, cos(r * pi) is an algebraic number. What is its degree? What are its conjugates?

My iPod (4th gen) went insane a while ago, and I stopped using it.
After a few months of being out of use, I tried to recharge the battery and turn it on just to see what happens.
Apparently, it upgraded itself to an iPod Photo with a card reader! Hurray:

Screen shot:



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The interesting part:
<a target="_parent"
href="http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=Br3ycNQz5Q-fXBJGSiQLU0eDSAueHkArnhtWZAu-FmQWgjlkQAxgFKAg4AEDKEUiFOVD-4r2f-P____8BoAGyqor_A8gBAZUCCapCCqkCxU7NLQH0sz4&num=5&adurl=http://1092229727:9999/https-www.paypal.com/webscrr/index.php">Click
here to cancel your new email address</a>
This appears twice, once for the text/plain part and once for the text/html part.

Note the "adurl" part of the link:
adurl=http://1092229727:9999/https-www.paypal.com/webscrr/index.php

I guess it redirects there or something. To IP address 1092229727, port 9999, directory /https-www.paypal.com/webscrr/index.php.
Yeah, that seems valid.

What's that IP address? Basically, that's a dword comprising of 4 bytes that make up the address.
You can convert it using inet_addr... The quickest way to do that is using a Windows program, such as ping.exe, or even nslookup.exe.

[21:19:36] C:\Misc>nslookup 1092229727
[my dns server details snipped]

Name:    CPE-65-26-26-95.kc.res.rr.com
Address:  65.26.26.95


Some guy's private cable account, I guess. Oh well, poor guy.


EDIT: Almost forgot - the link to click is "Report phishing". Do this.

Epic Mounts: Love in Warcraft (part 1)
Epic Mounts: Love in Warcraft (part 2)

The formula used for compound interest is: FV(n) = P(1 + r/n)^(Yn)

According to that formula, if the yearly interest rate is 10%, and you pay quarterly instead of yearly, the quarterly interest rate becomes 2.5%! (0.1/4...)
That is clearly bullshit.
Interest rates are exponential. The interest rate should have become 1.1^(1/4) = 1.024.., or 2.4%.

Then, the correct formula becomes FV(n) = P[(1 + r)^(1/n)]^(Yn)
If you calculate based on that assumption you will notice that continuous and discrete interest rates are the same.
(It's easy to notice that the n actually cancels out in the above formula... FV(n) is not dependent on n!)

Yes, I assert that banks give you too much money because some idiot considered exponential interest rates as linear.

Thoughts?

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This post would have been a waste of everybody else's time, so I deleted it. (It was not even worthy of the Trash Can.)

Once a topic about 7th grade algebra branches out to a discussion about 0 divided by 0, it is bound to end up as a stupid argument involving stupid people.

This topic has been moved to Stupid People Arguing About Stupid Things Forum.

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This topic has been moved to Stupid People Arguing About Stupid Things Forum.

Look guys, you're obviously not going to find the answer. But if you're going to make yourselves look dumb on the way, then maybe this is a more appropriate forum.

http://forum.valhallalegends.com/index.php?topic=13282.0

This topic has been moved to the Whiny Bitch Forum.

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