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dreamwalker007

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Cade is a guy from Gibbon, Minnesota, USA

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -Hermann Goering

  • Beauty of Mathematics mathematics,Symmetry of...

    Rated Jul 02 2008 • 115 reviews • mathematics • 4to40.com

    This is merely scratching the surface. What's really interesting is when you generalize these patterns; like using other bases.

    For instance: We all know that in a multiple of 9, all the digits add up to 9 a multiple of 9. But you can go farther and show that that works in ANY base. In base 5, the number 134212 is a multiple of 4 because the digits add up to 12 (a multiple of 4). The same even works for the square root of the number too, just like for the number 3 (square root of 9) in base 10.

    There are so many things like this in mathematics that most classes don't even touch. I was never taught like that. Math isn't memorization. It's the search for beautiful patterns. [/rant]