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#10820 Loki

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:17 AM

WTF? Seriously? Are you kidding me?

I just finished half of my bloody maths assignment - all by hand, mind you - only to check my emails this morning to find a reminder (how is it a reminder when it wasn't noted it the first bloody place???) that you are NOT allowed to use commas when seperating places of 100 i.e 100,500 or 13,456,000. Because apparently in some countries a comma is used instead of a fullstop/period to represent the decimal point. Which is cool except for the fact that we have ALWAYS USED IT IN AUSTRALIA!!! Now I have to go back and re-write the entire fucking first half of my assignment minus the commas. No one but myself and my marker arr going to see my assignment - surely I could keep the bloody commas but NO that would be descriminating against people from other mathematical cultures. What about MY mathematical culture? FFS! And seriously? Mathematical culture? Pull your fucking head out!

Grrrraaaahh!!! :up:

Edit: My anger harmed my spelling

This post has been edited by Loki: 06 March 2012 - 04:39 AM

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#10821 worry

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:22 AM

Whoa that's like 100,000.000.00,00000,000.00% the craziest thing I've ever heard.

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#10822 Mentalist

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 05:16 AM

i'm pretty sure back home we used a comma for decimal point.

still, given it's a Western School, that's very odd.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

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#10823 Loki

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 05:26 AM

Mentalist, on 06 March 2012 - 05:16 AM, said:

i'm pretty sure back home we used a comma for decimal point.

still, given it's a Western School, that's very odd.

It's not the lack of comma use that annoys me. Sure, if they had said 'you can't use commas because blah blah' from the start I'd have been 'meh, that's stupid but whatever'. But they didn't!!!

I've gone back over ALL my documentation, my module, my assignment criteria, the booklet entitled 'How to Present Your Maths Assingment' and NONE OF IT SAYS WE CAN'T USE BLOODY COMMAS!!!!

Apparently, it is mentioned on the online resources page - I may have internet access but I am enrolled as an external correspondance (NON-ONLINE) student. So, for the rest of those who are enrolled like me who DON'T have the internet how the hell are they suppose to know? Stupid arses! :up:

Anyways, I should stop complaining and get stuck into re-writing my goddamn assingment!

EDIT: WHY DOES MY PHONE KEEP SPELLING ASSIGNMENT AS ASSINGMENT!!?!??!

This post has been edited by Loki: 06 March 2012 - 05:32 AM

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#10824 Gothos

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:06 AM

Loki, on 06 March 2012 - 04:17 AM, said:

Edit: My anger harmed my spelling

Congratulations on your first step to doing maths the proper way.

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#10825 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:34 AM

Gothos, on 06 March 2012 - 07:06 AM, said:

Loki, on 06 March 2012 - 04:17 AM, said:

Edit: My anger harmed my spelling

Congratulations on your first step to doing maths the proper way.

I agree. Not on the comma-as-decimal-point part, because that's fucking retarded. But if you are one of those people who bothers to delineate every 3 orders with any form of punctuation, when writing by hand you're a madperson.

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#10826 Loki

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:45 AM

Adjutant Stormy, on 06 March 2012 - 07:34 AM, said:

Gothos, on 06 March 2012 - 07:06 AM, said:

Loki, on 06 March 2012 - 04:17 AM, said:

Edit: My anger harmed my spelling

Congratulations on your first step to doing maths the proper way.

What I'm annoyed about is that we are taught to use commas when writing out large numbers in Australia and yet I was just suppose to know that I wasn't allowed to do it anymore. It's what I was taught and I just checked and it is what my brother is currently being taught. So there was no reason for me to suspect that we weren't supposed to, or at least allowed to, write them like that.

It should have been made more apparent and it should have been made more apparent sooner then it bloody well was!

This post has been edited by Loki: 06 March 2012 - 07:46 AM

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#10827 pathos

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 08:03 AM

Just write everything in exponent form... problem solved

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#10828 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 11:32 AM

Date didn't go well. It wasn't terrible but yeah. I wont go on about it but still fairly disappointed.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 01:25 PM

Loki, on 06 March 2012 - 07:45 AM, said:

Well that was silly of them. We were taught you could use commas when writing big numbers for... the layman I guess, but when doing actual math (as oppose to writing a number for how much an item costs or something) you're never supposed to. It's basically a number colloquialism.

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#10830 Loki

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 02:38 PM

One more reason Australia should have a national education system.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#10831 Darkwatch

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 05:09 PM

So the bread didn't rise properly again.
Third time was not the charm. No matter I will not be beat. I'll increase the yeast amount next time.

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#10832 Loki

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 05:49 PM

I'm sure I'll find it amusing at a later date but right now I'm just pissed off and upset.

Whiskeyjack managed to smash the entire glass cover on Tarquin's tank. There is cat hair and glass throughout the tank and water everywhere! I can't feed Tarquin unless she is in water but until I empty her tank, remove all the stones and glass, and completely clean and check the filter I can't put her back in it. Her tank is big enough that I could sleep in it if I bent my knees a bit. She's sick and I don't have a fucking place to feed her. I don't have a bath or laundry sink or anything that is useful.

I suppose the brightside is that WHiskeyjack is okay - he didn't seem to be hurt beyond his pride. Though he is about 2kg heavier with all his fur wet.

GAH! Today is just shit.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#10833 rhulad

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:06 PM

kitchen sink for the win. Assuming she will fit.

#10834 Loki

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 01:27 AM

rhulad, on 06 March 2012 - 07:06 PM, said:

kitchen sink for the win. Assuming she will fit.

Nope. She is too big for the sink. I'll figure something out though

@BK -

That is NOT cool.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 01:29 AM

got a plastic box that something is stored in that would be big enough?

Apparently my lower back has decided that it is to stay twisted and sore today.... this is not pleasant.

That Elephant is looking rather frayed at the edges

#10836 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 01:51 AM

Really tired of all the videogames I have installed.

Stuck in Skyrim because my build makes the Draugr Deathlords a 100% fatality encounter.
Played too much Total War, haven't found any mods that make it more interesting.
Tired of League of Legends because it's a team game, and usually people playing during the week aren't 12, but it's Spring Break for most school districts. And 12 year olds suck.
Absolutely fatigued of playing Civilization.
Minecraft, even with the new update, is kinda boring because my friends took down our server.
Europa Universalis bores me primarily because I've noticed the metagame, and you're either going to do well by default, or get fucked by default. Or you have to wait it out until the situation improves (if it does).
I stopped playing TF2 because my account is bugged and I cannot acquire achievements or unlockable gear.
Half-Life 2 Episode 3 is never going to come out.
Don't get me started on FPS.

All my console games I either cannot find, cannot find my memory cards, or can't bring myself to replay.

Firstworldproblems, right?

#10837 Loki

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 01:57 AM

Adjutant Stormy, on 07 March 2012 - 01:51 AM, said:

MASS EFFECT 3!!!

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#10838 Darkwatch

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 04:46 AM

I wish I could draw properly.

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#10839 Silencer

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 06:58 AM

Darkwatch, on 07 March 2012 - 04:46 AM, said:

I wish I could draw properly.

This. It pops up one in a while, so it's a long-term groove issue. *sigh*

I feel your pain. XD

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