Math help plz

Raven · July 03, 2003, 08:16 PM

*Please explain as simply as possible, as Raven sucks at math. It's safe to assume I know little to nothing about the to-be-described concept.

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Basically, how would you go about performing a Hilbert transform (C(R) to C(R) linear transform by Prin. Val. integral) of say f(x) = cos(40)? Thanks.

j0k3r · July 03, 2003, 08:18 PM

Half of that looks familiar, the other half looks like jibberish... What grade/subject is that?

Raven · July 04, 2003, 02:58 PM

Come on, I know atleast 5 of you bastards know this (looks at Yoni, Adron, and Grok).

iago · July 04, 2003, 07:14 PM

Yoni, Adron, Grok = 3..

Raven · July 04, 2003, 08:40 PM

Those three were off the top of my head. Fine, doesn't seem like anyone will be answering this. 'Tis ok, I don't really have to know anyway.

*please delete*

Yoni · July 04, 2003, 09:46 PM

I don't know. Ask again in about a year.

Adron · July 05, 2003, 05:41 AM

Quote from: Raven on July 04, 2003, 08:40 PM
Those three were off the top of my head. Fine, doesn't seem like anyone will be answering this. 'Tis ok, I don't really have to know anyway.

*please delete*

I have known it and then I've blissfully forgotten it. I was hoping Yoni would answer when I read it the first time.

iago · July 05, 2003, 11:13 AM

lol, me too!

Raven · July 05, 2003, 12:40 PM

It's fine, if I get that interested in finding out, I can just read up on it. Thx for reading though.

Grok · July 05, 2003, 06:04 PM

For future reference, I did not get past Calc I at the university.

Raven · July 05, 2003, 07:22 PM

See? And you turned out to be a pretty good coder (who unfortunately can't spell ASM

). Sometimes, I also wonder if some of the stuff I'm learning and will have to learn will have anything to do with the work world. Adron's an Engineer, right? (or atleast finishing up his studies) How many times has he had to perform a Fourier transformation or crack a triple integral to figure out what to do? It seems alot of the professionals use number theory, factoring, and such, and rarely have to tap into their knowledge of more complex mathematics to reach solutions. Ohwell, hopefully I'll be able to handle anything the University dishes out at me.

Grok · July 06, 2003, 08:07 AM

IMHO, one thing that makes a good programmer is having a mind that can break big tasks down into little tasks with relative ease. That even works with geometry proofs. When I got to calculus, I didn't discover the needed paradigm in time to pass my course. Probably today I could take calculus and blow it away, because my mind has intellectually matured and learned more problem solving techniques which I didn't grasp at that age.

iago · July 06, 2003, 09:24 AM

I found calculus easy to do, although I've never fully understood it. For simple math, Computer Science, and even Physics, I understand how it all works but in calculus I've memorized a pile of rules, but I don't really know why the rules work.

drivehappy · July 06, 2003, 11:14 AM

The meat of Calc is really just the concepts. I think that the concepts are the best to learn because you can really figure the rest out by yourself (programming I've learned has helped a lot with problem solving).

j0k3r · July 06, 2003, 11:41 AM

I'm going into grade11, I'm not taking any special math courses 'til grade12 (can't) but programming I haven't found to be hard. Pretty much anything I've thought up I've been able to do, never been stopped. We're learning some screwed up language that was invented as a final for a university course in University Of Toronto (language is called turing). First year, I'm best in my grade, top 10 in the school for the language (and this isn't anything hard). That's why I'm trying to learn c++ at the momment, I'm hoping it contains more complex math that will open up my mind for up coming math courses.