Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Random stuff

First, here's some quotes I thought were funny

"Some people insist that dragons look like flying lizards or dinosaurs. These people have no imagination. Avoid them." ~Ben Caldwell

"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life." ~Calvin

"You don't get to be Mom if you can't fix everything just right." ~Calvin

Okay, those are my quotes. If you couldn't tell, that's Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, which is a great comic.

Okay. So in Geometry I was learning about inductive and deductive reasoning, and the teacher guy (I have this video lesson thingy) had this great story:

So a scientist takes a frog, tells it to jump, and the frog jumps 27 feet. So he writes that down, cuts off one of the frog's legs, and tells it to jump again. This time the frog only jumps 23 feet. So he writes that down, and then cuts another leg off, and tells the frog to jump. this time the frog jumps 16 feet. So he writes that down, and then cuts the second to last leg off and tells the frog to jump. The frog only jumps 6 feet, and he writes that down also. Then he cuts off the last leg, and says, "Jump froggy, jump!" but the frog just sits there. So he says it again, "Jump froggy, jump!" But the frog is still just sitting there. So the scientist deduces that if you cut off all of a frogs legs, he goes deaf.

I thought that was a pretty great story, and it illustrates inductive reasoning pretty well.
Well, I guess that's all for now, so bye!

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