Harvard Entrance Exam

[nature boy]

holy crap you guys are seriously doing these math problems?
i dont' even know what half of those symbols mean.

[joel]

it'd be impressive if someone where able to do the latin and greek sections on these forums!

[jeSteR]

^ not really, cuz I'd be 99.9% sure that said person would have used Google Translate... unless Nat's Greek knowledge expanded a lot during his time at LTS

[jeSteR]

[se7entse7en]

I dunno. Here's what I did.

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[nature boy]

i didn't really bother looking at the greek, but from what i saw it didn't seem that hard. it's just parsing and translating (both of which i suck at haha).
and i assume that it would be hellinistic greek, which may not be in google translate or whatever online translator floats your boat.

if you want i could phonetically sound it out for you though lol.

[jeSteR]

[se7entse7en]

[jeSteR]

I stand corrected... the answer is 0

Algebra 9:

Using Pascal's triangle.

= a^6 - 6a^5 b + 15a^4 b^2 - 20a^3 b^3 + 15a^2 b^4 - 6a b^5 + b^6

If you want the answer to the second half too bad, it's too freaking long to type up.

[nature boy]

man, and everyone says that i'm not productive.

keian and his team should check out this exam lol.

[joel]

Arithmetic #2:
I got 4(5/6) or 29/6

[joel]

Arithmetic #3:
The quotient of 3336.894963 by 72530 is 0.0460071.
The third power of 0.1 is 0.001.
The third power of 100 is 1000000.

The answer to 33368949.63 divided by 0.007253 = 4600710000

[joel]

Arithmetic #5:
25/111
1/444
859/3996
0.428571...(repeating)

[se7entse7en]

[Duncan]

lol... i like how joel's doing this at work...