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Thanks. I needed that help.

It's a presentation on my senior project. I'm simulating multiple charged particles, and I have the net force on each particle, the location of each particle, and the current velocity of each particle. So to minimize the error on the displacement of each particle for every calculation of position, I...

I have a presentation for tomorrow, and I need to explain why the Runge-Kutta (RK) method for numerical integration is more accurate than Euler's method. Can someone help me?

Thanks, and yes, my code does look different. I do use a loop in my actual code.

I would recommend the Temeraire Series, by Naomi Novik. The series is basically the Napoleonic Wars with dragon aerial combat. It is pretty neat.
Also, anything by Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Those two are pretty much the sci-fi/fantasy authors that any nerd will like.

Lucky! I have to read books that I think I would like, but it turns out they are really bad. I wish I could read "Wyrd Sisters" instead of "Macbeth"

HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY! This is such a silly idea, but that makes it even better!

Okay, but the torpedo EXPLODES, right before it hits the whale.

I wish for a nice piece of chocolate cake.

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I need some help with Python. I have a problem with modifying variables inside a loop that were declared outside the loop. Here is an example: x = whatever def whocares(self): x = someotherthing print x My IDLE tells me "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment" C...

Gojoe wrote:I would like to see a picture of said gloves. They sound awesome. Were they homemade?

You can find a picture in the Postify your facerity thread.

Here is me. I like duct tape. So I'm wearing duct tape gloves that I made.

Well, I'm Austin. As my username and signature suggest. As my presence here suggests, I like xkcd. I also realized that this would be a great place to get math/science help, since this is a forum on a webcomic dedicated to romance, sarcasm, math, and language. As my avatar suggests, I like duct tape...

If I had the right cords and a step pad, I'd be playing DDR as much as I could. Sadly, I don't have the money to purchase said pads. Or cords. However, I play stepmania a lot. In fact, I'm about to stop using Firefox and go onto stepmania right now.

Oh, wait! Now I remember what he actually said. It wasn't that [imath]\lim_{\theta \rightarrow 0} (sin(\theta)) = \theta[/imath]. It was that [imath]\lim_{\theta \rightarrow 0} (sin(\theta)) = \lim_{\theta \rightarrow 0} \theta[/imath]. That makes everything make more sense!

Teacher: Along comes a plus sign. What do you tell it to do?
Student: GTFO!

(Explanation of how a computer converts algebraic notation into post-fix notation. The equation in algebraic form was "2+3*4-5")

I'll list a few of those drug ones later. I left my quotebook where I keep all my funny quotes in at school. I remember a couple of today's quotes, though. Teacher to Student: You never cease to amaze me, but you often cease to impress me. ----- Teacher: (Student A) is one of the few people who coul...

I now have an urge to try as many things on this list as I can. That is one hilarious list.

My AP Computer Science AB teacher has a lot of memorable quotes. Here is just a taste. Teacher: Austin (me, in case you can't tell) stop laughing. Stop laughing. Don't laugh. Don't laugh until you pass out. (I have a problem with stopping myself from laughing.) Teacher: He laughed his contact out. T...

I actually keep a quotebook of memorable quotes from my classes from day to day. I think I'll share some of them with you all. Person A: I was not prepeating. I was looking into the future and then repeating what you said. Person B: That's prepeating. ----- Person B: The goals of our lab are to prov...

Okay, so I went to my multivariate calculus teacher and he told me this; \begin{equation} \begin{split} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} A & = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} {n}{{r}^2}{\sin \bigg(\frac{\pi}{n} \bigg)}{\cos \bigg(\frac{\pi}{n} \bigg)} \\ & = {{r}^2} \lim_{n \rightarro...

The problem is, I've tried L'Hopital's Rule, but it is something I would like to avoid. I was trying to prove the area of the circle using only limits. Any suggestions on that? Thanks for the help, though.

Banned for not banning the person above you

Granted, but the Flying Spaghetti Monster blesses you with immortality the instant before you would have died. Now you can endure a hell worse than hell.

I wish that I didn't have to do all my physics homework.

exorcism

I read fan-fiction from time to time, mostly Inheritance Cycle fan-fiction, and I found a few good ones on FF.net. Most of these that I read are Eragon/Saphira pairings, but they are written really well. As of now, there are two that I read whenever there is an update, a few others that haven't upda...

Okay. I'm at a conundrum. I have an equation that describes the area of n-sided polygons in terms of radius length (r) and number of sides (n), but I'm unable to get the area of a circle out of them. The equation I have is A={n}{r^{2}}sin{(\theta)}cos{(\theta)} where \theta=\frac{\pi...