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Open Letter To Jason
Re: Open Letter To Jason
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 07 Nov 2007, 20:55:29
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')BTW PMS, you can make an attack against someone's character but then just run when they come in to defend themselves. This makes you a coward and apparently, given your attack a coward who has only a 5th grade reading level
now now, you've got to give me time to respond. I've been at work. sheesh. a) the (m+n)!m!n! was clearly a misunderstanding and mistake on my part, so I retract that. b) It was (m+n)!/m!n! which you meant as your answer in the case of the 11X5 grid problem. As you pointed out, it isn't feasible to actually count them all when m=11 and n=5. I tried using smaller values of m and n and actually drawing the routes. In the case of 3X4 I was expecting to find 35 routes and only found 10. In the case of 3X5 I was expecting to find 56 routes and only found 15. Then I remembered that several very bright people here all came up with 1001 as the answer to your grid problem, off by a similar factor to your answer. So I thought, hmm, jason seemed so confident that he had worked it out correctly so that I thought I should check out his google link. What did I find? Links to the value of 16!/11!5! and then some cases where that number is useful. There were further links but I didn't see anything about a grid problem. So as of now, I am assuming that you were in error. c) you are somewhat of a prankster and lighthearted by your own admission but you do seem sincere about this, so d) my saying you were a full of shit poser was uncalled for and I retract that too.')BTW PMS, you can make an attack against someone's character but then just run when they come in to defend themselves. This makes you a coward and apparently, given your attack a coward who has only a 5th grade reading level
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Re: Open Letter To Jason
by jasonraymondson » Wed 07 Nov 2007, 20:56:33
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lol. It the maximum amount of possible paths along the grid
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Re: Open Letter To Jason
by jasonraymondson » Wed 07 Nov 2007, 21:03:57
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')BTW PMS, you can make an attack against someone's character but then just run when they come in to defend themselves. This makes you a coward and apparently, given your attack a coward who has only a 5th grade reading level
now now, you've got to give me time to respond. I've been at work. sheesh. a) the (m+n)!m!n! was clearly a misunderstanding and mistake on my part, so I retract that. b) It was (m+n)!/m!n! which you meant as your answer in the case of the 11X5 grid problem. As you pointed out, it isn't feasible to actually count them all when m=11 and n=5. I tried using smaller values of m and n and actually drawing the routes. In the case of 3X4 I was expecting to find 35 routes and only found 10. In the case of 3X5 I was expecting to find 56 routes and only found 15. Then I remembered that several very bright people here all came up with 1001 as the answer to your grid problem, off by a similar factor to your answer. So I thought, hmm, jason seemed so confident that he had worked it out correctly so that I thought I should check out his google link. What did I find? Links to the value of 16!/11!5! and then some cases where that number is useful. There were further links but I didn't see anything about a grid problem. So as of now, I am assuming that you were in error. c) you are somewhat of a prankster and lighthearted by your own admission but you do seem sincere about this, so d) my saying you were a full of shit poser was uncalled for and I retract that too.')BTW PMS, you can make an attack against someone's character but then just run when they come in to defend themselves. This makes you a coward and apparently, given your attack a coward who has only a 5th grade reading level
Take a look at the two by two grid i posted. I even verified my findings with the head of my colleges math dept and he verified my answer. So I am 100% positive of my solution, it just pissed me off to be attacked because people don't understand something.
In case you all forget I am a self declared villiage Idiot as a protest to the label of expert. I may not be Einstein but I also know when I am right and I would never post a math question that I was not 100% certain of the answer.
Sorry I attacked back, it was beneath me.
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