fairychild

can you imagine how the world would look like if no organism had ever died in the earth's entire history?

wouldnt it get a bit annoying if waterdrops are precipitating?

welcome to the wonderful world of programming! 1.) see 3 2.) i'd say yes it's easier than c++ imo 3.) java is platform independant. meaning the same code runs everywhere. c++ is not. but that has its price: java is way slower than c. when you compile an exe you link platform-dependant material into it so with some tools its possible to create exes but you will lose independance - what java is actually famous for. 4.) not difficult - java is very similar to c++ and to many other higher languages. 5.) wow.. now i can finally boast on this board ) ok: c++, java, php, sql, delphi, pascal, matlab, html/javascript, perl - and some other but these are the ones i know well. what i like most is php since the possibility to program webpages far beyond html is just awesome. sql is nice too of course, crawling in databases is fun and i also used to like delphi because you are able to program simple applications reeeally fast. my favourite for general purposes is C++ though.. raw and clean but remember: programming is like hell and heaven. you go NUTS when u dont find an error for 2 weeks, but live in blissfull heaven when everything finally works perfect.

because the result would be wrong otherwise? or multiply with 15 as already mentioned

i think 6*8 looks to be the most difficult in there.. btw there is an easy way to calculate the square of a number ending with '5'. 145²: 14*14+14 = 210 (first digits) 25 (last digits, always the same) so: 21025 once i won a bet to calculate 1455² in my head within 10 minutes.. and won about 1 €

i dont really see the challenge in using paper and pencil?

you guys should see "american history of marijuana", it's some movie i found across the net. great docu about how weird and - excuse my french - idiotic politics can be..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6745422/

yes, but rather the extention by Klein, who claims the 5th dimension not to be independent. generally, as i have posted in another thread, i wouldnt say the reality we perceive is the absolute level. we're just bounded into a small place, squeezed into a system where we exist. there might be other forms of reality (and energy) which we cannot see (yet).

an additional axis to the three we already know - and use to determine the location of an object

isnt it possible to go into a 4th space dimension and reach a 3d-location faster? theoretically

some of them are double (and more) star systems. so these variantions are normal