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jayjay - 04 Mar 2004 03:00 GMT

Iggy,

What sort of programming do you do?

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Ignoramus3771 - 04 Mar 2004 03:37 GMT

> Iggy,
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> What sort of programming do you do?

Several kinds.

One, general C++ programming related to a specific industry (finance).

Two, mathematical modeling of certain financial instruments, also in
C++.

Three, I write perl scripts at work and at home.

I also own website www.algebra.com, where I use mod_perl.

Anything that I can help with?

i

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jayjay - 04 Mar 2004 03:38 GMT

can you email me at

jjf_7 *at* hotmail . com

that way I can take it offline.

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jayjay - 04 Mar 2004 03:50 GMT

correction... that's

jjf_71 at ...

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Julianne - 04 Mar 2004 23:03 GMT

> > Iggy,
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> I also own website www.algebra.com, where I use mod_perl.

See why I hate Math??? From your website: Jenni is working with a realtor
whose commission is 8% of the selling price of her house. If she wants to
get $64400 to pay off her mortgage, what should be the selling price?

Wouldn't it be useful to know how much equity is in the house already? What
repairs might have be done before selling? If her only goal is to pay off a
mortgage, then where will she live. Is she getting married and moving in
with her new husband? Who will pay for the wedding? Ugh........

> Anything that I can help with?
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Ignoramus9863 - 04 Mar 2004 23:12 GMT

>> > Iggy,
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> mortgage, then where will she live. Is she getting married and moving in
> with her new husband? Who will pay for the wedding? Ugh........

I can definitely empathise with your feelings.

i

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Chris Braun - 05 Mar 2004 02:14 GMT

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OK, so I went to look at the algebra site. I did the gift wrap
problem in my head, just for fun. Then I wanted to check my answer.
I'd have liked a "see the answer now" button, instead of having to go
off and answer questions about what the unknowns are and stuff. But
anyway, my answer was right, once I got there.

I was once the captain of my high school's inter-school math team, and
subsequently a math major at Brown :-).

Chris

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Ignoramus9863 - 05 Mar 2004 03:59 GMT

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a champion all around, huh.

i

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Chris Braun - 05 Mar 2004 04:08 GMT

>> I was once the captain of my high school's inter-school math team, and
>> subsequently a math major at Brown :-).
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Hardly. That was my only "sport" in high school. And nowadays I'd be
lucky to be able to do any of the problems we did in the math meets --
at least in the few minutes they gave us to do them. I've not kept up
with it at all.

But I was definitely once a math geek. One of my favorite gym
t-shirts has a summary of the proof of Fermat's last theorem on it.
If you followed any of the Fermat story, you may recall that the proof
upon which Wiles built his final Fermat proof was something called the
Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture (if I'm spelling it correctly), which was
proved a few years before by a mathematician named Ken Ribet, who was
one of my college boyfriends back in the day :-).

Chris

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Ignoramus9863 - 05 Mar 2004 04:23 GMT

>>> I was once the captain of my high school's inter-school math team, and
>>> subsequently a math major at Brown :-).
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I am suitably impressed.

i

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