<p>divide .99999999… by 9
you get .111111111
which is 1/9
multiply by 9:
you get 1!</p>
<p>I was actually talking with a friend about this yesterday.
He was talking about a girl in his math class who proved it last year.
She proved it on the spot when the teacher asked.
Cool right?</p>
<p>oh, socks.
haven’t had friends mention girls proving that one.</p>
<p>maybe sticky socks? is that good for tribal cohesion? need to brush up on anthropology if I get in (tomorrow…oh boy)</p>
<p>did Laertes love his father? I think I’m going to write my thesis paper about how his madness wasn’t because of Polonius’s death, but rather an incestual thing with Ophelia parallel to Hamlet’s thing to his mother. Medieval Scandinavian mythology really freaks me out.</p>
<p>I haven’t read what you’re talking about, but to address your little proof-- it seems to me that a person who was questioning whether .9999 = 1 would also question whether .1111 = 1/9. The argument seems circular.</p>
<p>Subway… italian herbs and cheese bread is the most amazing thing ever :)</p>
<p>cincinnatistudent- I completely agree with the whole 1/9 not equaling .1111, so basically you can’t get back to 1 unless you’re willing to compromise the exactness of the question and/or answer</p>
<p>How did I manage to get into U of R with 6 honors/ap (same thing in my school) classes in total w/ a 3.6 GPA when the avg is 3.8? And I did not win n intel or do anything else similarly impressive…</p>
<p>I’m somewhat wondering if it had anything to do w/ the fact that I’m not applying for any financial aid…</p>
<p>they prob. found out that your CC sn was Robotab, and they were like… “that´s hot. We need him.”</p>
<p>A Polar Bear wakes up one morning and decides to walk 2 miles south. Then he walks 500 yards east, then 2 miles north again, and realizes that he’s back where he started. What color is the bear? (Its an actual quesion that has an actual answer…)</p>
<p>Oh, I totally remember hearing this one before… isn’t the bear white b/c the north pole is the only place where that’s possible? Although I don’t think you were supposed to tell us that it was a polar bear :)</p>
<p>What kind of a dog would you name Scrappy?</p>
<p>EDIT
Backups? Well, there’s UT, I’m in automatically because of the top 10% thing, but beyond that… uhhh I hope I get into Chicago…</p>
<p>Good Job ky9742 (unless of course you had already heard this one before). To those of you wondering why that is so: If you draw the path of the bear out on paper, you see that after walking that, he doesnt return to the point of origin. The only way that could be true is if you are not dealing with a straight surface, but a globe instead. After just a bit of thinking you realize that the only place that this could be true in a globe is if the point of departure is in either of the poles. Since he walked south first, he must´ve started in the north pole. Therefore, polar bear).</p>
<p>My backup (was) the Univ. of Maryland… but I wouldve applied to a bunch of other schools had I not gotten into Chicago: Princeton, Johns Hopkins, UMD, UVA, NYU, Columbia,BU,Stanford,Cornell…</p>
<p>what are the other schools you are considering?</p>
<p>I am applying to a bunch of schools regarless if I get into Chicago.
Williams
Cornell
Columbia
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Rice
MIT (Defered)
Stanford
And Pitt, with $$$</p>
<p>I would be hyrdogen because I’m #1. I think that’s lame, someone can do better.</p>
<p>If you had to be an element in the periodic table, what would you be? (and dont be lame)</p>
<p>Tungsten. I like the letter W. And I like the ones whose symbols and names don’t match. I didn’t know too much about the actual substance before, but I just looked it up and it seems sufficiently non-lame.</p>
<p>Gilligan, I always felt bad for him because of the Skipper, but he seemed to oblivious. He’s a happy type of guy, kind of like Will Ferrell in Elf.</p>
<p>3:45 to wake up at 6:30… I’m fairly certain that record will be broken very soon… That was on top of a week lof sleep-deprivation (4 hours previous nights)</p>
<p>What’s another word for dehumanize that I can use in my research paper?</p>
<p>Awesome word-- I was talking about Henry Ford, who apparently was renowned for his ability to dehumanize/automatize his workers. Sorry to rain on anyone’s parade who classified him as a national hero.</p>
<p>Would you ever cheat? and for what reasons?</p>
<p>Would I cheat… now that’s a tough question.</p>
<p>I think that in all honesty we’ve all cheated at one point in our lives in some way, shape, or form…</p>
<p>However, I’m going to assume this question is aimed towards our honesty in a school setting, so I’ll say no (that’s what I’d want to believe anyways).</p>
<p>Glad you found a better word btw… and I agree with you on Henry Ford, but he did help change the face of our lovely little economy :)</p>