@LucasHenrique: it means to play something unprepared. like if you're with a friend and he repeats a couple of funky chords on his guitar, you can just jump right in and play something awesome with him
@robjohn I have some fun investigating some unusual variable changes coming from my research. The thing I wanna say is that using the proper variable change can make the difference between the worst possible form of the hell and paradise for some integrals.
var $sourcewords = 'the name of very to through and just form in much is great it think you say ' + 'that help he low was line for before on turn are cause with same as mean ' + 'differ his move they right be boy at old one too have does this tell from ' + 'sentence or set had three by want hot air but well some also what play there ' + 'small we end can put out home other read were hand all port your large when ' + 'spell up add use even word land how here said must an big each high she such ' +
@Agawa001 I mean, Does learning math => (number, theory, geometry, statistics, calculus, linear algebra etc) help you with programming problems, especially the puzzling kind, like google code jam ?
@Agawa001 I don't see what you mean. Where did you get that ? This script just creates a variable containing a text and doesn't event send it to the textbar.
@Ramanewbie look i dont have my tool-bag right now (firebug+tamperdata+greasemonkey) but if i give it much time, i can reverse this text-generating alg
No no, I don't want to avoid math in any way. I want the better jobs out there. Some very high paying, but I don't get through the interview when it comes to the puzzle problems like on project Euler or code jam.
And when I read the algorithm books like the one I mentioned earlier, it's got tons of discrete math that I don't know yet.
So is my assumption correct that if I study math (discrete and calculus) I should understand these algorithm books better and therefore have a better grasp and program harder problems better.
@Boni yep, Yes, I could perhaps look at quick sort and be able to write in my primary coding language. But it's mostly when I get to the algorithm books like Knuth or Skiena that it's plain gibberish to me.
@Boni so I've started studying math on khanacademy.org and it's been slow :(
@skillpatrol that makes sense. Under the chapter sums I see a "Finite and Infinite Calculus" sub heading, I don't know all too much calculus but I do know what a limit, derivative and Integral is.
Just haven't practised enough of the stuff to solve problems quickly.
@gideon That's not what I meant. You should not need to implement those. You want proficiency and knowledge about what is already available for your language. You want to know the ins and outs, the quirks and bugs of existing implementations.
@Boni can be be more detailed, implement what exactly?
Anyway, I got concrete math on my iPad now. Lets see how that goes. Couldn't get shut-eye for hours over this and now it's 3am! I'm off to bed. Thanks @Boni @skillpatrol and everyone else who got involved in my hairy conversation I appreciate it :D
the range of (x(t),y(t)) is the graph of a function iff x(t) is a one-to-one function, in which case we can write y(t)=f(x(t)) then replace t with x^-1(t) and you get f(t)=y(x^-1(t)). that's how you get f() from x() and y().
