Mathemagic

[????????]

You've got to see this guy! :shock:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/arth ... magic.html

 

[magickmumu]

two things is dislike math and magic.

 

[????????]

you dislike math?

disliking math is like disliking meters! just tools to help us think, what have meters done to you!

i guess I can safely assume you suck at it and that's why you don't like it...

:finger:

 

[Meduzz]

 

[????????]

:lol:

 

[restin]

haha cool.

The vid is great and math is great, too (although I suck at it I am really fascinated how everything is connected...)

 

[BrainEater]

he uses the audience's brains also ?? or does he only use his own brain for the calculations??? :weedman:

 

[????????]

and it's amazing how much information he can compute, and if we believe him when he says he's not a rain man but he has a method (I think maybe he's a little of both) then it's even more amazing in the sense of seeing the capabilities of our minds, he's like pushing the envelope here.

edit: maybe he has eidetic memory??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory

 

[restin]

well, his method is saving numbers as words. If I understood right, he "just" splits the large number into small ones so it is easier but it is still *impossible* (say, improbable) for a *normal* human being. You need to have a memory of a machine and, of course high mathematical skills. And you can see, he is slightly *mad*

 

[????????]

he he yes, I remember he called one cookie

 

[magickmumu]

you dislike math?

disliking math is like disliking meters! just tools to help us think, what have meters done to you!

i guess I can safely assume you suck at it and that's why you don't like it...

:finger:

I am very bad at math.
I attended special classes and stuff for it. I was good at other things, but it's like that didn't matter.

sorry

 

[BrainEater]

it's never too late to understand mathematics... if it is explained right to you, you can't do another thing than understanding it.... except of course, if you don't want to understand it...


i know many people who don't like maths, not only because they are bad at it ... and well... basically the problem for these people and the reason why they are not good at it is that nobody has explained it right to them or they hadn't had the chance to develop mathemical skills, because of a lack of routine in thinking or bad excersises or ... whatever ....

however it's no shame to be bad at maths... and why feel sorry for that ??? its the most stupid thing you could ever do... but then ... you might indeed need mathematical skills one day ??? who knows ???


peace :weedman: