Asking a girl on a second date.

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-raven-
02-21-2008, 04:10 PM
Sounds like a problem easily solvable by a brute force algorithm

ayz
02-21-2008, 04:13 PM
yeah

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

1/2 a b = 666,666

whats the third equation, i haven't done trig in a long ass time

ptavv
02-21-2008, 04:15 PM
Sounds like a problem easily solvable by a brute force algorithm

You just have to write one to generate pythagorean triples...

ayz
02-21-2008, 04:16 PM
oh or you can program and cheat instead of doing it the old fashioned way

ptavv
02-21-2008, 04:18 PM
there's no third easy equation to generate pythagorean triples ayz

ayz
02-21-2008, 04:19 PM
i feel like we could use the law of cosines or something for a third equation but i forgot all of that shit

-raven-
02-21-2008, 04:20 PM
You just have to write one to generate pythagorean triples...

All the problem comes down to is finding factors of 1333332

ptavv
02-21-2008, 04:23 PM
okay, so it should be easy tehn

-raven-
02-21-2008, 04:24 PM
Waste of space.

ptavv
02-21-2008, 04:26 PM
all the numbers should be integers

if you don't get the idea of pythagorean triples

-raven-
02-21-2008, 04:27 PM
Since you are looking for integers, your answer is

A:693
B:1924
C:2045

ptavv
02-21-2008, 04:28 PM
:sunny:

i wrote a script to do this a long time ago

just figured i'd throw it out since i'm bored

Glare
02-21-2008, 04:30 PM
what the fuck

-raven-
02-21-2008, 04:38 PM
Ok here's another one.

Let's say we have a socially awkward dumbass detector. It detects whether or not you are a Mormon with 99% accuracy. So obviously 1% of the time it returns the wrong answer.

If we use this detector on a random American, and it indicates that the individual s indeed a Mormon, what is the probability of that person actually being a Mormon?

(this is serious btw)

ptavv
02-21-2008, 04:46 PM
99%

silentsam
02-21-2008, 04:47 PM
Read the first post, then jump to this page and read the post above me. The train obiviously went off the tracks somewhere in 24 pages. I love TW.

SegaRob
02-21-2008, 04:57 PM
Ok here's another one.

Let's say we have a socially awkward dumbass detector. It detects whether or not you are a Mormon with 99% accuracy. So obviously 1% of the time it returns the wrong answer.

If we use this detector on a random American, and it indicates that the individual s indeed a Mormon, what is the probability of that person actually being a Mormon?

(this is serious btw)

depends on the number of mormons in the US.

-raven-
02-21-2008, 04:58 PM
99%

Obviously not or I wouldn't have asked the question.

eggo
02-21-2008, 04:59 PM
yeah

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

1/2 a b = 666,666

whats the third equation, i haven't done trig in a long ass time

P+B= poopy p

ayz
02-21-2008, 05:04 PM
Ok here's another one.

Let's say we have a socially awkward dumbass detector. It detects whether or not you are a Mormon with 99% accuracy. So obviously 1% of the time it returns the wrong answer.

If we use this detector on a random American, and it indicates that the individual s indeed a Mormon, what is the probability of that person actually being a Mormon?

(this is serious btw)

uh this is just 1 - probability of a false positive type 1 error

im not gonna actually do the stats calculation for you though